I'm 50 next year and my eldest son's 18, and I want to mark it by either walking the Camino de Santiago or trekking in Morocco with him. It all depends on how much time I can get off work. I have a few routes in my head where I get on the train and cycle home that I want to do. I want to continue lo...

Favourite ride/trip/outing: Discovering the Howgills after driving past them literally hundreds of times, and a short ride on The Ridgeway visiting Wayland's Smithy and Uffington while down south with work. Favourite piece of kit: My new (to me) fully rigid Pinnacle Ramin. It just feels right. Piece...

Nice one Jeff, looks like a good weekend out.
I've seen that bothy and those ruins when walking down the other side of the valley and they're on my list of places to check out.
Cheers, Michael.

Thanks Ledburner, but there are some specific features that I'm looking for that these bags have but the Carradice style doesn't. I already have a Carradice style bag that's alright as a handlebar bag, but lacks the improvements of the Zeitgeist or Shazam.

Cheers, Michael.

Fitted some TRP Spykes to the Ramin, so it's now fully rigid and fully mechanical. I just need to get rid of this cold now and give it a test ride.

Would you strip off and put your damp clothes inside your sleeping bag with you or outside your bag but still inside the bivy bag? Neither as both will promote condensation. I'd take them off and seal them in a bag and leave them outside. If it's below freezing, it's worth keeping that sealed bag o...

I don't want to overexcite anyone, but I worked on a couple of Bucyrus 680 W modular draglines in Jordan back in the 90s. I even have some candid photos of the filthy beasts.

grs_10 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:49 am PM sent. Cheers

If you decide you don't like them, give me a shout...

1985. Took a whole month off work - a year's holiday in one go - and Interrailed around Scandinavia with just some spare socks and a hopeless Lichfield one-man tent. Variety of trampy sleeping situations, including a shed a few hundred yards from the Russian border in Finland in full sight of a gua...

My mate and I spent the night in a perfect little howff beneath Gardom's Edge in 1992. The experience was enlivened when my petrol stove squirted fuel over my rucsac just as I lit it, which resulted in two decent sized lads trying to put a fire out in a confined space while trying to keep our sleepi...

Thanks Kvragu, but I'm looking for a synthetic bag.

Anyone?

I'd been trying to lose weight for years, and nothing worked. This year I've found that if I stick to around 1400 calories a day (I spread it over two meals, lunch and tea) during the week with no alcohol , I can eat what I want and have a few scoops at the weekend. I've been doing this since April ...

I've been in the area but can't really answer your question :roll: I spent the weekend riding to the west of Salisbury. It had been drizzling most of last week and where water pools on the ridge drove roads it was mucky but rideable, terrain similar to the Ridgeway. The tracks off the ridges, espec...

Does anyone know what conditions are like on The Ridgeway at the moment, especially around Uffington?

Cheers, Michael.

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Good call, I ordered some earlier. Hopefully this winter I'll only have cold feet.

Cheers, Michael.

As per the title, if anyone has a Swift Zeitgeist or Wizardworks Shazam Handlebar Bag that they aren't using, give me a shout.

Cheers, Michael.

Thanks Mariner

If any of you have bought some TRP Spykes, what comes in the box with the calipers? Do you get adaptors too, or are they aftermarket?

If anyone knows where they're in stock that would be useful too, there don't appear to be many left.

Cheers, Michael.

29er or 700c Disc brake Wheels wanted, 100 /135 QR.

I'm looking for cheap rather than fancy, strong rather than light, and suitable for a 40mm tyre.

I can easily collect in the northwest or around Leicester.

Cheers, Michael.

Updated with price...

Retro style wax cotton handlebar bag, excellent condition. Pics can be sent via email or WhatsApp. SOLD Some marketing blurb: Is it a musette, or is it a handlebar bag? Attached to your handlebar whilst riding and the Blackburn Wayside Handlebar Bag is a fine place to store devices, snacks and suppl...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:39 pm If anyone wants to try pogies on the cheap, I was buying some stainless bends the other day and spotted these: https://www.ooracing.com/handle-bar-hand-muff.html

Nice one Stu, that's just saved me butchering my old footwarmers, and it'll look better than the sky blue Pertex they're made from.

Whilst I do love pogies, I also love pertex pile mitt combos. I've just ordered some MONTANE EXTREME MITT https://www.sportsshoes.com/product/mon1930/montane-extreme-mitt-~-aw21/#sku-mon1930 They look like an even warmer version of my favourite handwarmers that I've been using for years, Buffalo mi...

I'm thinking about making some pogies for when it gets properly cold. I've got some old pertex and pile booties knocking about somewhere that should be fairly easy to convert.