Search found 275 matches
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Anyone paddled the Wye?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1582
Re: Anyone paddled the Wye?
I have paddled Symonds Yat to Redbrook a few times, it's a really pleasant day out, but may be a long ride back. In a car it is a complex game of leave one here, go back there, paddle, get back in, drive back there! Paddle to Redbrook, enjoy the pub overlooking the river, sleep out, ride back. If yo...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Where is everyone?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 5273
Re: Where is everyone?
Chedar Man - That's not what I've observed. BB is a very welcoming forum, similar to YACF for audaxing. I note a few YACF stalwarts have appeared on BB during the past 2-3 years, have thrived and become part of the - ahem :roll: - "nuevo-establishment" :lol: :-bd , possibly just as a natu...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Where is everyone?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 5273
Re: Where is everyone?
Just to add, that isn't a criticism, just an observation. It happens all the time on smaller forums.
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:39 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Where is everyone?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 5273
Re: Where is everyone?
I've noticed over the last few days a sharp decline in 'users on-line'. Where's everyone gone? Are they all out Christmas shopping? Getting a final trip in or finally had enough and headed for pastures new ... obviously, I'm not expecting any answers because those missing won't see this :wink: It's...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Can we talk about jockey wheels?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1685
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2967
Re: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
Careful with that one, it may appear that you are pi55ed off with her nicking your kit and just want to make your life easier!
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 12:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hacks & Bodges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1646
Re: Hacks & Bodges
There is a chap who often cycles the Bristol to Bath railway path and he has tri bars clipped to (and you have to imagine this) the bottom of sort of backwards pointed butterfly bars. The effect is that his arms are effectively through the butterfly bars, and his face is inches away from them. I oft...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2967
Re: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
Or scrap the cycling theme and give her a lovely pearl necklace instead?
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ti bolts as (Hollowtech) crank arm pinch bolts!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1673
Re: Ti bolts as (Hollowtech) crank arm pinch bolts!
Oh... btw. The ti bolts are £15 but at leaat they're available.. I went out with a girl from Wakefiled for a while. She was a mental health nurse too, Lynne her name was, blimey she was fun :wink: Wakefield or Wake filed . what's a wake an would you file it? That might make them a bit rough in Wake...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2967
Re: xmas gifts for a cycling wife............ help!
I know cycling lady. She is very open, and has told us several times that cycling on her period can be uncomfortable. So she uses a Mooncup, get yourself some new man points and get her one.
https://www.mooncup.co.uk/
All I would say is be very careful choosing the size
https://www.mooncup.co.uk/
All I would say is be very careful choosing the size
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ti bolts as (Hollowtech) crank arm pinch bolts!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1673
Re: Ti bolts as (Hollowtech) crank arm pinch bolts!
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/chainsets/shimano-duraace-fc7800-clamp-bolt-m6-x-15mm-1e5-1210/ Wow, the identical thing is 9p from the bolt shop in Wakefield. In fact in this circumstance, Shaf needed something 18mm long, and they have those too . Not a criticism of what you have posted, just a commen...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ti bolts as (Hollowtech) crank arm pinch bolts!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1673
Re: Ti bolts as (Hollowtech) crank arm pinch bolts!
Oh... btw. The ti bolts are £15 but at leaat they're available.. M6 20mm bolts are 6p each from Kayfast in Wakefield. You could push the boat out and go stainless, but they are 9p each :shock: So a cost saving of £14.82 and a weight difference of next to nothing. I went out with a girl from Wakefil...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is it only ducks?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1217
Re: Is it only ducks?
Cows are all registered at slaughter as they need to be traceable in case of disease, mad cow etc. But I don't think they get a death certificate as such.
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4115
Re: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
To the people that have recommended using Whatsapp and Googlemaps - doesn't this need a phone signal? Yup, absolutely. I just mentioned it as an addition to the "if where you're going has phone coverage" side-discussion. No, I don't think it does. It would need a data signal, but not nece...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All rounder bike for a friend
- Replies: 6
- Views: 862
Re: All rounder bike for a friend
https://singletrackworld.com/2019/09/re ... l-bouncer/
Here you go, size large. £750 with a pump for the suspension. It has barely been used to be honest.
Here you go, size large. £750 with a pump for the suspension. It has barely been used to be honest.
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Android phone update help needed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 282
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Overnight stays still banned?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5155
Re: Overnight stays still banned?
Thought my question might be appropriate here if that's ok. Q being, that, if I'm in Tier 3. So being in West Yorkshire... Would it be perfectly legit (won't use the term 'reasonable' as I reckon it is) to head out on the 160 miler West Yorkshire Cycle Route. Obviously it'd include a stay/sleep mid...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4115
Re: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
You can also live stream your position on WhatsApp, and it is surprisingly accurate.
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All rounder bike for a friend
- Replies: 6
- Views: 862
Re: All rounder bike for a friend
Does he definitely want a hardtail?
I am selling a Jamis full-sus bike that hasn't had much use, it will be well under his budget too, I am 6' tall
I am selling a Jamis full-sus bike that hasn't had much use, it will be well under his budget too, I am 6' tall
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4115
Re: GPS Tracker Thread - Spot Content and In reach
Dear all I, sorry they, basically want me to be tracked , and send an I am not dead message. * Ok I have been told I am getting one whether I like it or not Have you checked, do they have your best interests at heart and lovingly want you to be safe.......... or do they just want to check you are m...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite bike of 'all time'?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 13889
Re: Favourite bike of 'all time'?
My Dawes Galaxy, racing green, bar end shifters, leather saddle......... and 00,000s of miles. JOGLE, weeks in France, cycling to see mates who lived miles away just for a laugh, towing the kids cycle trailer, then their tag a-long, then carry the stuff on family cycle tours. It really has done ever...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Reccommend my mum a headtorch.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1938
Re: Reccommend my mum a headtorch.
What will she do with it? Put the bins out and see if the cat is there? https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/onnight-fishing-head-torch-100-uv/_/R-p-192711 Walk her dog in woods and fields? https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/onnight-100-80-lumens-battery-operated-trekking-head-lamp/_/R-p-128225 or https://alpki...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 2:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1122
- Views: 181449
Re: What are you listening to now?
A work webinar that is both terrifying and dull at the same time
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 12:46 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cheapest/lightest option to add warmth
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1317
Re: Cheapest/lightest option to add warmth
Buy a down jacket and down trousers. They can be worn out of the bag in the evening, and then in the bag for an added warming factor.
2 birds, one feathery stone.
2 birds, one feathery stone.
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 12:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Trenching anyone ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1300
Re: Trenching anyone ?
Did he ride up 92 times as well?