If you get cold feet in the poncho, you can just call the help desk with the integrated phone and get some footwarmers sent out:

Did you follow the long term storage instructions?

I tested a couple of exposure lights (Diablo and Axis) and was really unimpressed with them in terms of VFM. Runtimes were fairly poor, no replaceable battery, poor brightness settings and fiddly button. The Diablo was also too floody for a helmet light (it got completely washed out by my bar light)...

Thanks for the replies on the restrap straps

... and dropped of some straps and a rear top tube bag. Been after one of those bags for a while, so picked one up when I decided I needed some straps. https://media.bobarnott.com/gravel/2023-04-26-restrap.jpeg ... and also dropped of a pair of saddles. Was expecting them last week, but it turns ou...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:47 pm I saw a couple of oil beetles at the weekend.

These are rare and considered endangered, you can record sightings here:

https://www.coleoptera.org.uk/meloidae/home

Will likely be a shooting/hunting lodge owned by an estate/private landowner.

Talking of birds of prey, this landed in my backyard in Edinburgh yesterday - manage to snatch a quick pic before it flew off looking for sparrows to munch on: https://dub07pap001files.storage.live.com/y4mKY4BX5WDINM3_mwzIFyrf04NKQjYMQrzFg7N2EbtiYCoczWXAyUgaE907c40uRSIt05ksookmc9i073-O4_pFovqBq5M0bQ...

Yeah, they do also come with a bar clamp with the same QR plate. Not sure that would work on your helmet though

My moon meteor came with a helmet bracket that attaches with velcro straps - can't you just swap it across?

My set up varies massively depending on the trip

Otley is my home town (moved to Scotland when I was 10)

Almost certainly a scam for harvesting bank details, so many red flags:

The address they list in the contact us section does not exist
They only take card payments
Trust pilot has no record of them
Established in 2023

Could have been a Sparrowhawk, Goshawks are pretty big, almost as big as a buzzard. This was probably twice the size of a sparrow hawk. I actually watched a sparrow hawk take down a pigeon and carefully pluck it apart only last week. Quite a gruesome but fascinating moment Just been reading about t...

The Enlightened quilts (and Cumulus) have straps that attach to the quilt which then go round your sleep mat. As long as I have the straps on, I never have an issue with a cold/draughty back. Used the straps, still had the drafts What quilt were you using? Cumulus 250 and 450 I had bother with a cu...

https://youtu.be/mHznRpNJpxU

I use the loop strap with the upper clips on the quilt

I've never had an issue with draughts using the strap like this.

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 9:11 pm

rudedog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 12:36 pm The Enlightened quilts (and Cumulus) have straps that attach to the quilt which then go round your sleep mat.

As long as I have the straps on, I never have an issue with a cold/draughty back.

Used the straps, still had the drafts

What quilt were you using?

Also allows for a perfectly flat pitch

The Enlightened quilts (and Cumulus) have straps that attach to the quilt which then go round your sleep mat.

As long as I have the straps on, I never have an issue with a cold/draughty back.

Insulated pitches - I wonder what the R value is

A guide for how to use the chains is on their site : https://www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/wp ... -hooks.pdf

On Shimano rear mechs, if you take out the b screw, there is some times a plastic spacer underneath that can be removed so that you can increase the effective length of the b screw.

I’m a side sleeper and have the enlightened revelation, it’s great - wide enough that I don’t get a draughty back (which I did with the cumulus comforter I used before it).

Rewilding sounds good in principle but the sticking point is just to when do we wind the clock back? Go back 25,000 years and you'd have to get McAlpines in with a fleet of bulldozers stripping all vegetation and soil away but then they might have a little problem replicating the couple of kilometr...

Sorted now, thanks all

Hundreds of roe deer round my way this year (ok slight exaggeration but I've seen way more than years past recently) I was speaking to someone involved in land management who reckons it's down to an increasing reluctance by farmers to allow people to shoot on their land due to the liability hassles...