Karl wrote:Good news though... Richard G's pedal stayed on!!!

Shame about his shifters.

Hope you heal quickly Richard.

Thanks Stu, Dee, Chew and everyone involved. Sorry Stu for trying to blame you for the wetness. ;-) Sorry Chew for being grumpy when you signed me back in. :roll: ...and apologies to the guy I rode large parts of the second half with and never asked his name. :???: 23 hrs 51 minutes, in no way fast ...

Richard G you're not putting the wrong pedal in the wrong crank are you?

Does it have all the straps, i.e. the lower one for the headtube.

Needle jumping can be caused by the pump not being on the valve properly.

I've never ridden in that part of the Wales when it hasn't rained.

^ there you go.

For those who are taking it steady/slow. Trout Inn at Beulah is a 3 mile round trip off the route and comes just after 66 miles. Then you could ride up to the bothy at the top end of the Caerwen resevoir (15-ish miles) sleep for a bit and then have 50 or so miles to cover on Sunday. If you're going ...

I knew that flat bit was the Claerwen Resevoir.

Hopefully I it won't be 3am and with horizontal rain like the last time I rode that track!

dlovett wrote:I keep the Revo on all the time with the ewerk. No dramas after all this time even when riding it unloaded. Everything that needs charging gets charged.

Ditto with a usb-werk.

...and I unplug the Revo in the day and still no issues with it being unloaded.

I have a use for it.

Don't want 3 tins of the stuff!

I have a Montane Featherlite which has been warm ( temps down to just below freezing has been my usage) and squishes down fairly small. Would be smaller if it didn't have a hood.

Generally I've found that if it's raining you won't be sat outside in it and therefore as long as you store/carry it somewhere dry a down jacket is fine even in our damp climate.

I assume you don't ride with the stick shoved in the back wheel?

Cleaned up route.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/25536242

Single Speed George wrote:we do like our ridged steel 29ers ....

Yep.

I had the ouput on my Revo fixed by Exposure as it never worked from new.

Yes. Went in and manually got rid of the squiggles (and then forgot about them). Will share from ridewithgps later.

For anyone else, the GPX is here -> https://mtb.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=1 ... 49!-0.4164

Just click the 'routes' button in the bottom right hand corner and then select Icknield Way, then you get an option to download the GPX.

Took me bloody ages to work that out!

The number of times that 7 happens!

Random one but on the off chance someone has crashed and wrecked a lever does anyone have a TRP Hylex caliper lying around?

Is it only me that finds the initial cost of suspension forks another great reason for riding rigid? With a mid-level fork easily costing over £300, I simply can't justify the expense when weighed up against the potential gains. Agreed. Although carbon rigid forks seem to be increasing in price in ...

Diary says no for the group start.

I know this info is probably already on here somewhere but what is the generally agreed window to do the HT550 post winter but pre-midge?

Has anyone actually completed it yet?

Does anyone have a GPX for this?

Technically I only need the lower half to get from near Cambridge to Ivinghoe beacon.