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- Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 532174
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
3 weeks is a good strategy, Irra sin prisa, do you want a link to the book? There's lots of maps and pics and the Spanish is straightforward.
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 6:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 532174
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
When have you booked your flights? MrsPB and I have a loose plan to ride it this autumn, it's an area of Spain we haven't explored much apart from a visit to Sevilla 3 years ago. I bought the cycle guide book from an amazing shop in Barcelona, think Stanford's Spain, which divides the route into abo...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 4:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Time to Ditch Spot?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 739
Re: Time to Ditch Spot?
Given I'm a Motorola phone user, I'm thinking of pulling the trigger on their Defy gizmo, about €130 to buy with free 1st year then €5 a month for 30 messages which will do me, I don’t speak to MrsPB that many times a month in real life! They also sell a phone with the tech baked in but it's quite e...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4936
- Views: 1251619
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Had to chuckle at the Lifetime warranty line on the Ti frame, is that the lifetime of the frame or the company which will be considerably shorter, about a year IMO.
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 532174
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Very cheery Saturday, in Bilbao cheering on the Yates twins to 1,2 in the TdF. Moving along to San Sebastian for tomorrow and Monday then the Tourmalet
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: frames similar to the Ti fargo, but in tough gas pipe?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1313
Re: frames similar to the Ti fargo, but in tough gas pipe?
Van Nicholas have a lifetime warranty on their Ti bikes and frames, good job really as I'm on my 4th frame in 10 years! 2x Redwood which were both soley used for bike packing trips about 6 times a year, same with a Zion Rohloff specific frame. Currently my beta testing victim is a Rowtag gravel bike...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:08 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: PlanetX going bust?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3006
Re: PlanetX going bust?
Been sold to a sporting goods retailer backed by private equity, where have we heard that before? Based on current cycle industry return on capital employed, I'll give it another year at most. It'll take them that long to work out what a bag of sh\te their current stock inventory is and that no-one ...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4936
- Views: 1251619
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Now is the Spring of our discount tents. IGMC
- Mon May 15, 2023 8:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Unhitched
- Replies: 6
- Views: 664
Re: Unhitched
Fenton? FENTON!!!! Oh Jesus Christ!!
- Sun May 07, 2023 6:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All night lights
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2868
Re: All night lights
Quite good timing for this topic to come up. Yesterday morning at 6am I started a 450km gravel race from Barcelona to Valencia, given the tough terrain and 4,000m of climbing, I'd set myself a target of an overall average speed of 20kph, so 22+ hours of riding. Darkness falls quite quickly at 9.15 a...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This year's set-up
- Replies: 11
- Views: 830
Re: This year's set-up
How many months are you planning to be away for?
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Here’s to summer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1053
Re: Here’s to summer
Do you think he'd make me a keyring if I asked nicely?
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route ethics
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1137
Re: Route ethics
To cap it all, the original event is called Gravel Augusta, the nicked copycat is called Via Augusta Gravel.
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route ethics
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1137
Re: Route ethics
Seems to be happening a lot. There's an event that covers the 450km from Barcelona to Valencia that a couple of friends have developed loosely following a Roman road called the Via Augusta. A couple of weeks ago one of them was asked on social media for the gpx for this year's event which he innocen...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 659545
Re: Todays ride
By way of contrast, Spring has sprung here in Cataluña and with it a phenomenon whereby the thousands of hectares of fruit fields that the lower valley of the Ebro and Segre rivers are known for explode with colour due to the brief flowering of blossom. It's a bit like the autumn colours of trees in...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: That stupid idea I mentioned ...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2145
Re: That stupid idea I mentioned ...
Sur-Ron electric motor and a long extension lead, it's the future
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1557
Re: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
Was going to do a version of the Altravesur starting from Malaga but not sure I can be arsed with the faff of the train journeys needed. Guessing you didn't fancy doing the Spanish Divide from the 7th to 16th of April, I invited you in December but no response. There's 8 of us this year. Logistics ...
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1557
Re: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
There's a campsite about 2km W of Trevelez that has small A frame cabins that are cozy and pretty cheap, the village is at 1,500m so you may be glad of the warmth, it's got a decent restaurant as well. Hope you've got your climbing legs on.
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Neris Lotafun Packraft
- Replies: 4
- Views: 423
Re: Neris Lotafun Packraft
Misread the model name as Lofoten which made me think that it was designed for Arctic adventures. Gave me visions of Dave doing a bit of light ice breaking in Torbay.
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1557
Re: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
Valeta this morning
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1557
Re: Sierra Nevada Spain anyone been?
Which route are you doing? You may find the peaks such as Valeta and Mulhacen snow bound, the deserts of Gorafe and Tabernas are within reach and pretty spectacular. The first edition of the Badlands was a good circular route before they started abandoning riders on the wrong side of the Siera Nevad...
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 7:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 400579
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Putting ‘mountains’ into mountain biking
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2397
Re: Putting ‘mountains’ into mountain biking
Pico Valeta 3,396m in 2020
Pico Urbion 2,260m in 2021 plus in a white-out in 2022
Javalambre 2,016m in 2019 with some 'Boners
Pico Urbion 2,260m in 2021 plus in a white-out in 2022
Javalambre 2,016m in 2019 with some 'Boners
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 153154
Re: Wildlife
2 crows were arrested the other day and charged with attempted murder.
IGMC
IGMC
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 400579
Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
New balls please.
1st km of the Spanish Divide and last flat for 1200km