That must've been quite a trip + climb Rich..
The cup.. Cut to size to fit into my small ti mug, used for cowboy coffees - it's like tea tannin marks on a mug?
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- Fri Dec 22, 2023 9:50 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
- Replies: 21
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- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:23 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
- Replies: 21
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Re: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
Dusting off your French.. mine needed a jetwash and a full polish:) Reminds me to recommend a book, Rides of Passage by Matt Lamy. You might recognise his name from the cycling press where he's been a writer and tester for years. It's about him and his father (Arthur Lamy who owns a bike shop in Gue...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What was the problem with 29+
- Replies: 20
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Re: What was the problem with 29+
I'm a bit sceptical of theories that the industry killed them off out of fear they'd take sales from other formats :) Surly and others would have kept supplying a niche demand if the demand was there. Maybe the more common 27+ gave a bad impression of the Plus thing? They're a small part of a small ...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What was the problem with 29+
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1306
Re: What was the problem with 29+
I don't know much about 29+ from direct experience but 27+ always felt too conditions-specific to me. Which is fine because tyres generally are, but they were at least cross-compatible with 29" standard. 29+ was maybe quite niche? I think the main thing was how few people want a dedicated rigid...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2886
Re: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
Cheers for reading it Ben, and Phil + others - it's good to have a place to post trips and re-live it a little.
John, thanks - maybe the easier we all make these things (just pack a bike and pedal, what's the worst that can happen?) the more easy it is to be inspired?
John, thanks - maybe the easier we all make these things (just pack a bike and pedal, what's the worst that can happen?) the more easy it is to be inspired?
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
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Re: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
La Bérarde is the best ride in the Alpes I think so. Strong competition around but it's also not really like any of the classic cols. I've mapped out a route that follows most of the dead-end roads into the Ecrins but it's 650km in total, a lot of out and backs and climbing meters. I went up to Pre...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Ideas for old self inflating sleeping mat?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2158
Re: Ideas for old self inflating sleeping mat?
I have a very old Fat Airic that has a small delamination bubble. I thought about using a needle to inject some latex solution into it, or maybe getting some seam grip into the area to re-laminate it. Injecting seam grip sounds difficult but maybe with a larger bore needle? The hole the needle makes...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2886
Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
A long post but it's got pictures to help you through if you can face it : ) This July I made it out to the Alps again after 4 years. I just missed the mountains. It felt so good to be back on French roads, simple solo road touring again. It's not epic, it's not hardcore and it's barely worth report...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How to insert pictures
- Replies: 249
- Views: 154194
Re: How to insert pictures
(just checking)
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 983
- Views: 130256
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
^ 'El Camino' .. Very good.
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: East Devon Trail
- Replies: 13
- Views: 655
Re: East Devon Trail
A "third way" is something I really enjoy - looking out for suitable old buildings. I've kipped in old barns (supremely comfy in the hay!), caves, churches, doorways, disused caravans, hen houses, industrial buildings, anything with a roof. Or part of a roof. We each have our own "mo...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12814
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
it also looks utterly f*****g miserable, as do most of the competitors :shock: Big difference between 'tired' and 'miserable' .. though they might look pretty similar! Lael Wilcox in particular always amazes me by how happy she is out there. Good luck with it all Sam. Must be a fascinating line of ...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12814
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
It's a good website too.
+1Good luck to the lad.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:48 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12814
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
'it's just like riding a bike'.. so we tend to just learn and improve as we go. Most sports or activities involve some coaching to get better though. Fitness coaching should boost mental strength in an event if only because you're able to cope better physically, which helps mentally? If the training...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: For the cyclist who has everything else?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11509
Re: For the cyclist who has everything else?
This was never a problem when we had bar ends... "when we had ..." ? Some of us still have :lol: This was never a problem when we all had bar ends... :grin: I sort of still do - loop or H-bars. I had Scott AT4s BITD. It was a close call really, almost developed a liking for aerobars. You ...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: For the cyclist who has everything else?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11509
Re: For the cyclist who has everything else?
This was never a problem when we had bar ends...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2023 Highlights
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7021
Re: 2023 Highlights
Nice idea. -Inspiration of the year (media/person/object etc)* - Can I mention a place, a very general one, as well as a person? The English lanes in autumn. Since being back in the Cotswolds and finding my way round again I've had sunny autumn days on the bike that just make me feel inspired and fu...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 64201
Re: Films to watch while isolating
Sheesh .. Kanye Lemmy-Tempwest, that's the chap, you know who I mean right?
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 64201
Re: Films to watch while isolating
Wasn't a big fan going back a few years, but anyone with that level of creativity and life story is interesting.
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 64201
Re: Films to watch while isolating
Haha yes sorry - Life of Kai .. Kai Lemmy the surfer
A quick google and I see.. Kae Tempest docu will be worth watching. Personal and artistic change since I was aware of their work last. Thanks!
A quick google and I see.. Kae Tempest docu will be worth watching. Personal and artistic change since I was aware of their work last. Thanks!
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 64201
Re: Films to watch while isolating
I saw that on Red Bull TV a while back, incredible surfing footage. The wave at Nazare is jaw-dropping.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4787
Re: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
Even the Cannondale CAAD 12 and beyond (lightes alloy frame on the market I think) frames are probably on the higher probability stakes of failure due to the ultra thin walls of the alloy used. Just a reminder to keep em checked over. 1 thing worth remembering generally is how metal bike parts tend...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The man who cycled the Americans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2504
Re: The man who cycled the Americans
It is, despite my typo in the title!
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4787
Re: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
To be fair to Planet X they source from suppliers who make frames and forks for a lot of brands. But yeah, inspect stuff from time to time. The topic came up on STW and there's people saying essentially 'anything can break' and it reminded me that in the summer I found a 2″ crack on the bend of an A...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The man who cycled the Americans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2504
The man who cycled the Americans
On BBC iPlayer now. Think it's quite an old documentary but I'd not seen it, enjoying it.