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- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I have thought about it, as I agree, it's a bit mad we haven't met in the middle somewhere yet. Would love to do a bit more riding in The Chiltern Hills, as I've pretty much just been on the Icknield Way and would like to explore them a bit more. Not adverse to a slower couple of days, assuming I r...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A quick "Happy Birthday" to that stalwart Bammer - James G :-bd . I think it's your "Granite" birthday - a bivvy in Aberdeen to celebrate perhaps? :smile: 'Bammer' has a slightly different meaning up here :grin: But still rather applicable in present company methinks :grin: . I ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A quick "Happy Birthday" to that stalwart Bammer - James G .
I think it's your "Granite" birthday - a bivvy in Aberdeen to celebrate perhaps?
I think it's your "Granite" birthday - a bivvy in Aberdeen to celebrate perhaps?
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
For a change, I know exactly where that is, having cycled passed it on a few occasions now. It's always looked a bit too busy to pitch up at, but just where you hang a right to head back to the visitor centre, and tap, I've thought about going straight on, and kipping there, on the edge. :smile: Yo...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Bit breezy out there. With our usual sense of skill and daring... oh alright, sense of tomfoolery and harebrainery... we chose one of the windiest days of the year to go via the highest point in Bedfordshire. Yes I know it's not Scafell Pike but there's not much between us and the Black Mountains. B...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Well putting the Gatewood up in 40mph winds is a good game. Sleep well all .
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:14 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
MP is proposing an extension of The Rules. He'd like to allow a fusion of cars and bikes for BaMs - pedal cars. Excellent idea and I shall allow him to elaborate. I'd like propose an extension to his extension - pedalos! A sort of fusion of bikes and... what... packrafts?
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
V wrote: nature of emergency
I didn't enquire - just general diverse alarums and commotions I think.
Oh, apparently "it's Monday". Definitely an emergency .
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Yeah, missed you missus :smile: Live BaM In Progress. Emergency BaM called by MuddyPete. Half seven, shove some gear into some bags, out the door at eight. Apparently high likelihood of kipping in a cathedral - now that will definitely put the cat amongst the pigeons in the sheds/structures fraterni...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Saddle design
- Replies: 6
- Views: 252
Re: Saddle design
thenorthwind wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:51 pmI worry the same could quite quickly apply to the owner too
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Saddle design
- Replies: 6
- Views: 252
Re: Saddle design
Not tried that one (£130+?!) but as part of my Great Saddle Investigation I bought one of these: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53508957759_fe5342315c_z.jpg ... which I have to say wasn't 100% successful, so I then had a go with one of these which strangely enough almost worked... https://live....
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
- Views: 19376
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Did I overthink everything to do with this? Yes. Did I change my mind about where to go than five times? Yes. Did I delay because I was too scared to commit? Yes. Welcome to the game! Looking forward to hearing about some more japes and capers. Luckily for you we're all perfectly sane in this corne...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT entries CLOSE SATURDAY
- Replies: 20
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Re: WRT entries open
Pick n mix is the top priority surely?
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT entries CLOSE SATURDAY
- Replies: 20
- Views: 805
Re: WRT entries open
Well I'm in twice due to finger slippage . Just have to do all the GRs two times I suppose.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
- Replies: 36
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Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
I usually avoid the need to wriggle out of waterproofs by aiming for good weather. That way I also avoid all the issues of tarps and tents by carrying neither. It often works well, but not always :| Ah well, I like to avoid issues of carrying any shelter at all and sleeping in sheds but that doesn'...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1713
Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
Indeed... the only tent with a huge space in which you can get out of your wet kit easily is one you can stand up in! Unless you can stand up, both tarps and tents are a wriggle job to get out of wet gear so that cancels out.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bivvy curious
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Re: Bivvy curious
Head-on collision...... BANG!
You could always blow up your bivvybag and use it as an air-bag in said collision.
But of course a tarp is much easier to get out of in case of an accident......
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
- Replies: 18
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- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3942
Re: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
Sorry, just need to post my favourite ford pic! (Copyright JT)
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
- Replies: 18
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Re: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
That's not a ford. That's a ford. That's not a ford. That's a ford! :grin: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326828687_8833040618_o.jpg I can see the way into your ford but where's the way out ? Or is it one of those ace ones where you have to ride along the river for a few hundred yards before...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Now you're talking! Sounds like a new competition. A bit like when kids party entertainers ask what animal/vegetable/rude shape you'd like them to make with those squeaky modelling balloon things. Squeak! Actually wouldn't the 'Thong' have to be made out of lace? Possibly even less practical tarp ma...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bivvy curious
- Replies: 20
- Views: 875
Re: Bivvy curious
Why are there so many spellings ? Good question! I think that actually they might well be named to rhyme with that tasty frozen 1970s treat...... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53498236881_b34b8e3d47_m.jpg Anyway, they're the devil's work. Boil-in-the-bags that is, not the ice-cream - that was...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
- Views: 19376
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Aye, bonus point. Although at first glance I thought it was an innovative use of a towel, what with the colour .
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
In a fusion of interleaving posts I wonder if Teapot would eat pineapple for breakfast. Maybe if it was hollowed out and had a mouse hidden inside it? In a genuine, for once for Reg, Cheery Friday report; I've just been down to the river to check on my little guerilla-planted babies (23 oak saplings...