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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
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Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Where to start, 12 Tours de France as a rider, yellow jersey wearer and stage winner as well as multiple stage wins in the Vuelta, 8 TdF as Directeur Sportive including 2012 where he headed up team Sky, engineering Bradley Wiggins as first UK winner. Multiple British Champion on the road, track and...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1765
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
The Thompson Twins haven’t aged well
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
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Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
£100 an hour for skilled labour We live in very different worlds if you think £100 an hour is a reasonable hourly wage for any human beimg to earn. ( shaf is a nurse and is nowhere near that for example nor is a teacher etc or indeed almost anyone working. That is not a wage. It's an hourly rate fo...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
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Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
Unpopular opinion but it’s probably 1.5 hours in total sunk time for the welder to get to you, set up, weld and pack away. £100 an hour for skilled labour ready immediately doesn’t seem too harsh to me. And he’s factored risk in as well.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Spot Tracker Wanted thread.
- Replies: 99
- Views: 79772
Re: Spot Tracker Wanted thread.
I have a SPOT Gen 3 which I'd sell for £21.50 posted. The BUT is that one of the strap mounts has broken.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
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Re: The post man's been ...
A shiny new Garmin 540 Solar has landed. And on cue so has some decently overcast weather
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 209560
Re: What are you listening to now?
Ta Scott, noted! It was "convenience or death" that I don't like either of the sound of :smile: . Having been gigpacking this weekend (of which more shortly round in Trips), I have this on while I'm typing. Didn't you go Dave? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY50hQx8_xE Intriguing: "...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
I’ve had personal experience of the owners. Best left at that
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
I did say that would happen Mine was £339 but I have to look at STW for a month
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
;-)johnnystorm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:15 pmPhew!!!Dave Barter wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:02 pm I’ve not bought it yet!
edit: can't use the STW link as I'm not a paying member
edit: can any paying member see the discount code applied ;-)
It's open to any subscriber, so free trial or one month's digital only for 99p or whatever should do it!
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Thanks all I've managed to sort it ;-)
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
I’ve not bought it yet!
edit: can't use the STW link as I'm not a paying member
edit: can any paying member see the discount code applied ;-)
edit: can't use the STW link as I'm not a paying member
edit: can any paying member see the discount code applied ;-)
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
That’s the ticket. Thanks Shaff. Be prepared for a massive Garmin price drop once I’ve bought itredefined_cycles wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:54 amhttps://www.balfesbikes.co.uk/ssl/secur ... ry-detailsDave Barter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:45 pm Can someone find me a bargain on a Garmin Edge 540 solar please
Use the code SAVE25 Dave. £374 total.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Can someone find me a bargain on a Garmin Edge 540 solar please
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4046
Re: GB Duro Entries open
Sadly won't happen now. I have to be at work w/c 2nd Sept. I'm not fast enough to get it done and be back for that.Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:30 amI shall look forward to the stories, book, film and family board game Dave.I'm in and think I'm going to give it a bash.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 611
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
In 2019 hiking 3000 miles from Mexico to canada up the length of the great Divide I ate well over 900 Cliff Bars, most of them the chocolate mint or white chocolate macademia variety. I think the record was 10 in one day. The combination of that plus the 200g of oatmeal and chocate and vanilla flav...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 611
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
Somewhere there is a video of me eating a poo off the floor. Rest assured it was a Clif Bar we formed into a sausage shape
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 611
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
I loved that article! Especially the Clif Bar observation. I learnt that one the hard way
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4046
Re: GB Duro Entries open
I'm in and think I'm going to give it a bash. The only show stopper for me will be the tracker as I binned my SPOT and invested in an InReach. Waiting to hear on that
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 4408
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
My thinking is to bin the barrage and use the idea of fill/empty. So we construct tidal-filled basins which generate and store electricity as they empty.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 4408
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Living by the sea and witnessing day in day out the power of the tides that are ALWAYS flowing, unlike wind, I find it amazing that we've not properly invested in harnessing this free power that surely could be done in a much less obtrusive manner.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 4408
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Use car tyres to make massive lackey bands then the propellers can make airplanes. Job donewhitestone wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:06 pm
There was discussion on Countryfile about wind farms - turns out that so far "they" haven't figured out how to recycle the blades which are typically fibreglass or carbon fibre.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255477
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
They always seem to have some sale on but particularly good savings on socks, including waterproof (£13) and merino (from £5), at Banana Industries at the mo. The waterproof socks look quite interesting (note subtle dig at seal skins!) and my current ones are all now leaking so will see how these p...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4046
Re: GB Duro Entries open
Disappointed was hoping for moonies