That looks great! (Even better than a real baloonbed)

What material did you use for it?

numplumz wrote:Often wondered if a bike will develop with a large downtube water tank, probably not but it does seem a waste of good storage space.

It can be done.


The UCI banned it very quickly tho so there's not many around.

Could try wrapping your bars in white electrical tape to see what the white bars would look like?

I cant really tell from the photo but it doesnt look like there is much bare bar showing at all? Would you even notice the colour change?

From the pics it looks like the front is lower reducing the trail, be interesting to hear if you notice the steering speeding up or feeling twitchier. I think he said the front is actually a little higer than it was before (i think it just looks lower in the pics because the bars are much closer to...

I love military stuff. As others have said, it's pretty heavy, but i'm not much of a weight weenie so that doesnt bother me. The main problem i have with it is the colour...everything is green :P I have a goretex DPM bivi, goretex DPM overtrousers (£5 on ebay) and goretex DPM mittens (£3 on ebay, ma...

flatfishy wrote: Didn't get anything down the south west except a suntan.

Its a hard life eh?

We didnt get any snow OR suntans in the Scottish highlands :(

This is the bike you need for riding in the snow :D

I do.
The stuff sack has compression straps which packs it up tighter and makes it easier to fit in with other stuff.

What about the Hebrides? Very low traffic volume. Plenty of opportunity for wild camping. You could get the Ullapool > Stornoway ferry then down to the south and back to the mainland via the Lochboisdale > Oban ferry. That would be around 100 miles cycling. Another option would be the Mallaig > Tarb...

Hi guys, Just been down to aldi and they have LWWF ready meals for £1.69 Options are either Beef Chilli con carne or beef+basil meatballs. All of them are use by Jan 2013 Never had them before, but i got myself a couple to try. Does anyone know if they can be boiled in the bag, or if i need to tip i...