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- Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:27 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: FS - Bag Clearout
- Replies: 2
- Views: 485
Re: FS - Bag Clearout
Could I get the alpkit hiking rucksack? I'm undecided on the osprey hip pack as well. It's been on my wishlist for like forever, but a Terra Nova one has pretty much plugged that hole. If you could hold on posting the rucksack for a couple of days for me to decide? But anyone else is welcome to swoo...
- Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2022
- Replies: 828
- Views: 202393
Re: Bivvy a month 2022
After illness thwarted my 2020 attempt in November then carried on well into 2021, this is it. Transitioned further towards the hobby side of the sport divide, and moved to a big city so all will be interesting. Gonna throw my hat into the ring. Hopefully once I've told some strangers and strange fr...
- Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:48 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Hobo stove
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2513
Re: Hobo stove
It's not said nearly enough, but you share some top draw knowledge with us. AppreciatedBearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 9:10 am As Dave rightly says at the beginning, here's a better one
https://bearbonesbikepacking.blogspot.c ... o+friendly
- Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:03 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Iphone 6 16GB VVGC - Sold
- Replies: 1
- Views: 337
Re: Iphone 6 16GB VVGC
Interested in this. Will message you
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:17 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: Hope rear hub - SORTED NOW
- Replies: 3
- Views: 440
Re: WTD: Hope rear hub
I have a gunmetal one. Will dig it out for photos and more spec
- Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Mind blown
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1658
- Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If there was a BB App ...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4220
Re: If there was a BB App ...
In a rogue move back on topic... There are two scenarios that I feel a bikepacking app could be useful, pre ride prep and during ride info. Pre ride prep a snazzy feature could be to look at the weather forecast and tell you what stuff to pack for a trip. I feel this would require lots of user input...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Living a meagre existence so you dont have to work ?
- Replies: 177
- Views: 19560
Re: Living a meagre existence so you dont have to work ?
Nice one! TaLazarus wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:03 pmyou canWish I could opt out of pensions
https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions/i ... ion-scheme
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Living a meagre existence so you dont have to work ?
- Replies: 177
- Views: 19560
Re: Living a meagre existence so you dont have to work ?
To add balance to this argument, I've had tasters of retirement in six months of furlough, then again in this knockout tiredness having no energy. Both are a hard pass. Retirement just isn't for me. Purpose and giving time value by limiting it are massive bonuses of work for me. I value my work outs...
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:23 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 129598
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
Been really tired since November 12th. Walking round the block was my biggest challenge of the year. Shame I couldn't complete it. 11/12 ain't bad. Some neat stories in there.
Hoping for a ride to sleep as well as a sleep to ride style BaM each month once I recover.
Hoping for a ride to sleep as well as a sleep to ride style BaM each month once I recover.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Pin-pointing pointlessness is the pinnacle of pleasure
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2600
Re: Pin-pointing pointlessness is the pinnacle of pleasure
I enjoyed that :-bd riding all the chevrons is a genius Idea, I think I'll do that for the Island, I needed some inspiration to get out. Nice. Super glad I could be of assistance. 'Guacamole and brownie wrap' - Heston eat your heart out! (*) It's got the killer combo of chilli and chocolate, with t...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:44 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Pin-pointing pointlessness is the pinnacle of pleasure
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2600
Pin-pointing pointlessness is the pinnacle of pleasure
I have an obsessive love for problem solving that I take to the ridiculous extreme of creating problems precisely in order to solve them. Back when exercise restrictions were eased from once a day for an hour to unlimited, I set myself something big. I was to cycle all of the chevrons on my local OS...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ben Connolly Chasing Chevrons Article
- Replies: 5
- Views: 710
Re: Ben Connolly Chasing Chevrons Article
I believe it is possible to get the Ariveé magazine if you are a non member. Dig around on the audax website and pay them a couple of quid by some method. I know they print more copies than they send to members as I got two copies of my first published article for the spring issue.
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ben Connolly Chasing Chevrons Article
- Replies: 5
- Views: 710
Re: Ben Connolly Chasing Chevrons Article
You have seen throught my disguise *mock shock* Glad it was appreciated. I feel I wrote an incredibly similar post up on here with less editorial flair. I'll look it up, but the pictures and flair quotes do make the article better. Not sure if the image compression would make reading it from a poste...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 7:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 129598
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
With the month coming rapidly to an end and me still zonked with some other illness for 18 days and counting I have a confession to make... The write up I did on Bonfire Night Bimble was in fact not a lie. I actually did it. On my own out in the splashy hills. Well, most of it, some of it, I definit...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Bonfire weekend bimble?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4497
Re: Bonfire weekend bimble?
So along with the rest of England I'm grounded so can't go out to play. Obviously it would be silly for me to not only break the rules, but then tell on myself about them. Therefore here is a completely fictitious story of what I would have done*. *Turns out writing in this weird conditional tense i...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:45 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Hope pro 2 single speed on Stan's Crest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 549
Re: Hope pro 2 single speed on Stan's Crest
No worries Tony. Shame the SS didn't work out, but saves you the hassle of moving the wheel on at least.
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:21 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Hope pro 2 single speed on Stan's Crest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 549
Hope pro 2 single speed on Stan's Crest
Black hope pro 2 hub with bolt through ends on Stan's Crest rims 21 internal diameter.
Call it £120 posted.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gzDMnPgS8bqe1UMK9
Call it £120 posted.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gzDMnPgS8bqe1UMK9
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 10:07 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Mobile modular sleep system
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1566
Re: Mobile modular sleep system
I've ended up using it to extend other sleep systems, rather than on its own. Do appreciate being warmer bumbling around before bed so pleased with it. The skirt is elasticated so moves around well with me. Admittedly I couldn't starfish, but not as if you could do that in a sleeping bag either. The...
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: My biggest worry about doing a French stage race.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2521
Re: My biggest worry about doing a French stage race.
I had always considered myself bad at facts, therefore languages, but in this last year took a online test to see what sort of learner I was and came back kinesthetic. Ben, what test was that? It was a few months ago, but I searched "what kind of learner am" I and then took a sample from ...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: My biggest worry about doing a French stage race.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2521
Re: My biggest worry about doing a French stage race.
I had always considered myself bad at facts, therefore languages, but in this last year took a online test to see what sort of learner I was and came back kinesthetic. Made sense as I could remember nearly every tackle I made on the rugby pitch when others would only know the result. Have had some s...
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Bonfire weekend bimble?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4497
Re: Bonfire weekend bimble?
So are we still doing this? Tonight? Saturday? Both? Not at all? I feel any physical social interaction is off the cards. Personally I will write up a report of what I would have done, with some artistic impressions on the ubiquitous ms paint of the pictures I would take. Feel there is a distinctio...
- Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: what you wearing on your feet this winter ?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1631
Re: what you wearing on your feet this winter ?
In the harsh testing ground of my commute (work requires machines that do not exist at home), I have discovered that it is more than shoes that determine cold feet. Keeping the core warm and the blood in the pipeline (legs) on the way to my feet has a massive impact. This has its limit of course, bu...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:11 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: wtd, single speed 29'' rear wheel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 558
Re: wtd, single speed 29'' rear wheel
If the venture is a success then I have a Hope Hoop Pro2 SP singlespeed on Stans Crest. Bolt In connector. Call it £100?
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 129598
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
So with big birthday plans out of the window like a rockstars TV, even mediocre ones got squished like a bug by this bug going round, I was left to entertain myself. New appropriately sized plan; sleep on a hill, eat cake. Decided that waking up outside is better than falling asleep there so set off...