When solo, usually locked in sight to whatever is available, with the world's most pathetic ski lock thingy that even a granny could snap. But just a deterrent for opportunist. In :busier'places with a pal we've taken turns going in the shop while one waits with the bikes. No Self respecting scally ...

02.01.2023 122.9kg
05.01.2023 121.1kg
13.01.2023 120.4kg
20.91.2023 119.6kg
27.01.2023 118.1kg
04.02.2023 118.7kg
10.02.2023 118.3kg
17.02.2023 120kg
06.03.2023 120.7kg

Down 2.2kg or 13 pool balls.

#reboot

Carry on like that and you'll be excluded from the BAM when there as it's your posh holiday home

Very nice and not a little envious of your pad

Very neat

Nothing to share sadly. Ive just added a set of clip-on aero bars to my gravel bike or hard tail on occasion when I did some multiday bikepacks.

Got weighed at hospital this morning before my MRIs. I'll not log that weight as it's different scales and I was dressed, surely that's the only reason for the shocking number?

You're right Escape Goat, though I've gone way off the rails the last few weeks and with hospital stuff on Friday that will knock me back I'm thinking I'll just reboot on Monday...

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3 years in the garden and raised over £700,000

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Great to see people's range of locations and experiences

I've an idea for a bird hide in the area for my next one, but I'd better remember some ears plugs as it is on the Montrose basin with 10s of thousands of geese

Not being a ride til you drop and scrape two hours tormented tumbling in a plastic bag I tend to take something for the 'tent' to get out of cycling kit and allow it and certain places to air. I don't tend to take spare cycling kit, other than WP jacket (which isn't really spare, just another layer)...

Yeh sometimes the countryside isn't so peaceful!

In shetland the bloody.oyster catchers would make a racket 24/7 in the summer, but then it hardly even got dark either.

That does look useful. A message home to say where I'm stopped for the night never goes a miss.

I currently just send a screenshot off maverick GPS app on my phone that gives os grid, w3w and hope address with a os map background just incase.

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:41 pm Well I got my bi-annual present from the NHs for a bit of that but they are looking for something a bit more serious than a duff diet.... (although one can beget the other of course!)

Yeh I was quite a surprise to get that birthday present when I reached 50 All good so far though

There's definitely a big psychological element and boost to it. When you immerse in the water in trunks only in winter, it's not cold you feel, it's something far beyond cold. I watched a documentary on suspension piercing the other week and their description of the feeling reminded me of going in 4...

Hi Shaf, you've lost me a bit! Regardless the weigh loss is good! I I tend to weigh less when not doing much exercise as I get a lot of inflammation from exercise, and if I then eat carbs that adds weight as the muscles soak it up with associated water, 1g carb+3g water iirc. Just questioning it as ...

So you're saying you have a Fitbit type watch that shows how many calories you're burning related to the temperature stood in the shower? :o I don't have anything like that, or anything other than Strava for exercise. Yeh swimming I definitely ate back what I used, summer I'd be up to 45mins swimmin...

I've got to say I didn't notice any weight loss benefits with cold water, but happy to hear you have. Until the last year I swam all year round in just my trunks in the north sea (Shetland and Angus) maybe 10-12mins when it was down to 5c, long enough that rewarming included dancing an involuntary j...

I just use the beacon feature on Strava for that sort of thing (the reason, along with route planning, I pay for it). Cheaper than that device plus subscription for a human with a phone. I have a fastfind 220 PLB for out of signal emergency on a remote/distance trip. It's been a while since I've don...

Sounds like the destination for your next BaM right there, maybe they'd do you a Bike Thru' Breakfast :grin: . Well you got me thinking... It's (The Horn Cafe) about 40miles away which can be done largely along the coast, and there is a back road to it as the A90 is a less than bike friendly DC, th...

Sounds like a great weekend with my style of eating :-bd I'm definitely a 'rather sleep in the clean outside' than inside a manky caravan type of guy, or on a rancid stack of sheep fleeces :???: There's a place off the A90 near us that proclaims the 'world's best bacon butties' on its wall. I keep m...

I had a scary dream in the hammock last night! Never had that before camping, other than once on a climbing/camping trip where I was just about to top out off the route into the tent :???: and started to fall and woke up shouting 'Take in!!' In the dream I was a sleep in the hammock and a man crept ...

I'm out now a few miles from home in some woods. Just set up and about to have some tea. It's pretty breezy and it's odd to have the hammock moving up and down as I sit on it! I actually got it all set up nice and then realised my school boy error with it running parallel to the wind. Now set up per...