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- Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47503
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Just back from the winter JennRide - 150km of winter wonderfulness :???: Come to the Lakes they said. It'll be picturesque they said... There'll be wonderful views they said... It'll be lovely they said... They lied! Got to the ODG at about 1830 and decided to have tea there. About 2030 we headed ou...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2402
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
Ultimately we all (try to) justify our own actions. Of course that means airlines also try to portray themselves as "green" by saying "flying is only X kg of CO2 per mile" and is thus comparable to, for example, train journeys. This somewhat sidesteps the fact that a typical flig...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 7121
Re: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
Cheery Thursday
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1252
Re: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
Surely the answer is to get one's butler to do it
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 16920
Re: Todays walk
Unfortunately the cafe we were heading to in Slaidburn had shut down, but a coffee and sandwich from the nearby post office was a reasonable substitute. Sad to hear about the café, there's a lot that's shut down in the last couple of years so things are getting a bit thin. Dunno what your route was...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47503
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Happy birthday youngster.
Someone else's birthday tomorrow
Someone else's birthday tomorrow
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 16920
Re: Todays walk
More Veloviewer tile grabbing... This time at the top of Waddington/Easington Fell I'd three squares in a row to visit. On the way up the long road climb I passed three cyclists. I was just getting ready to set off and one of them pulled up - John Allen of this parish! So a bit of a chat before I he...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1501
Re: Lowest useable gear
26/46 on the fatty here as well though TBH fatties are a bit different and their traction/stiction create their own effects. At the top end the angular momentum of the tyres lets you keep a higher speed than you'd otherwise imagine.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2.5kg too heavy for bar harness ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 294
Re: 2.5kg too heavy for bar harness ?
I'd say 2kg would be around the maximum for a bar mounted bag but everyone's different, some might baulk at 1kg up front. If you are happy with it and it doesn't affect *your* handling/enjoyment then I wouldn't worry about it.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1501
Re: Lowest useable gear
Yes. By the time I'm spinning out I'm going fast enough that it's not a problem. It doesn't happen that often anyway, makes more sense to have something usable at the lower end.godivatrailrider wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:43 am
And 30/11 is acceptable for the flatter/slightly downhill sections still?
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1501
Re: Lowest useable gear
My lowest gear is 30/50 so 1.66 ratio.
I could go lower but I find I need a bit of resistance especially if the ground is rough and sometimes will actually be in a higher gear to give me momentum through rougher sections.
Everyone is different though and a lot depends on what you are used to.
I could go lower but I find I need a bit of resistance especially if the ground is rough and sometimes will actually be in a higher gear to give me momentum through rougher sections.
Everyone is different though and a lot depends on what you are used to.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
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Re: Wildlife
A couple of red kites whilst walling over at my brother's. Not seen them in the Lakes before.
Apparently the curlews are back from the coast already. Not heard any yet but if they are here then it won't be too long.
Apparently the curlews are back from the coast already. Not heard any yet but if they are here then it won't be too long.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 16920
Re: Todays walk
It was last a working farm forty or fifty years ago. By 2000, possibly earlier, it was derelict and was renovated in 2006. The walls of the in-bye fields are in a very poor state indicating a long time since they were worked. These would be the most likely to be kept in good condition. I Need to do ...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: DD Superlight solo tarp - damaged but free! (Claimed)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 324
Re: DD Superlight solo tarp - damaged but free!
Phil, you could glue reinforcing patches onto it. Just need to determine if it's silnylon or silpoly. It's what I've done when I've made tarps but the tension is more across the material than at right angles to it though I have done ridgeline tie-outs that have held. Glue the patch (I used Sil-net o...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bivvy curious
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1101
Re: Bivvy curious
Back to the etymology :grin: I use "bivy" as a noun (contraction of bivouac) and "bivvy" as a verb. The doubling of a final single consonant when going from noun to verb is pretty common in English: trap -> trapping; etc. Anyway... I use a lightweight Borah Gear bivy, 170g, along...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Liner, Quilt, or Better Bag?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 672
Re: Liner, Quilt, or Better Bag?
Also, what do you wear to sleep in? That's a very valid point: I'm guilty of going au naturel too often, and really ought to remember to make use of my old-school Helly Henson LIFA long johns and top. Remember that bag ratings are for the user wearing a lightweight base layer so you'll feel colder ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Flttingford bothy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 710
Re: Flttingford bothy
Thanks both for that We could handle a short push ok We may even do kershopehead bothy and visit the downed Halifax which is nearby on glenghu hill but again is meant to be hard to access There is a visible path from the forestry road to the bothy, it's just easier to push than to ride so we're not...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Flttingford bothy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 710
Re: Flttingford bothy
As Phil says, easy apart from the last couple of hundred metres which is a bit of a push. We visited it in 2018, trip report here - https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=169555#p169555 . I'd imagine the saplings around the place have grown a little in the intervening six years. T...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 16920
Re: Todays walk
I headed up into the Dales to fill in some VeloViewer squares - any human powered activity can contribute and some of my missing squares are all but impossible to get to by bike. I'd a big block of seven contiguous squares at the head of Littondale. I parked at Halton Gill at the top end of Littonda...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1984981
Re: The post man's been ...
Some Winter Event goodies because we weren't able to get down to Llanbrynmair that weekend.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2023
Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
It's probably the perceived "faff factor" and tarps don't really fit in with the hipster/gravel scene as promoted by the bike industry, plus of course being able to sell a £400 tent rather than a £50 tarp might be a factor. Pretty much our first bikepacking trip was on a really wet and win...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Exposure Joystuck
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1431
Re: Exposure Joystuck
Might be worth questioning the IP rating? Really not my forte in that side of things Although I am a user of exposure, it does put me off a brand that has ‘excellent customer service’ and is well known for it too. If the product is good, then how do people know this? Generally companies with a repu...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47503
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Nice one Sean. I did consider heading out for a hammock bivy the last couple of nights (well Tuesday and Wednesday) but the temps round here were well below what I've got hammocking kit for, I've only one UQ which is rated to -4C, I've been OK at -1C but haven't been lower than that. The stacking fo...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Electric Socks
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1014
Re: Electric Socks
On the two Rovaniemi trips I used a pair of Scarpa ice climbing boots that I already had (couldn't get, or justify, a pair of 45nrth Wolvhammers). i think they are an earlier version of these https://www.scarpa.co.uk/mountain-boots/phantom-tech-hd/ (I paid nowhere near that price BTW) The boots have...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:26 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1925
Re: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
Caol Isla and Ledaig have been our standard go to malts. Pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum! Cath did buy me a bottle of Kelpie - one of the annual specials from the Ardbeg distillery - sadly we've now finished it.
One that I've had recommended to me is Dalwhinnie.
One that I've had recommended to me is Dalwhinnie.