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by RIP
Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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...
by RIP
Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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 ...
by RIP
Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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:
by RIP
Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:53 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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...
by RIP
Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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...
by RIP
Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:51 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Well putting the Gatewood up in 40mph winds is a good game. Sleep well all :smile: .
by RIP
Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:14 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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?
by RIP
Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:06 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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 :smile: .
by RIP
Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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...
by RIP
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 pm
RIP wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:26 pm should surely be half the price of everything else given that it's got half the parts
I worry the same could quite quickly apply to the owner too :shock:
:lol: :lol:
by RIP
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....
by RIP
Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

:grin:
by RIP
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...
by RIP
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: WRT entries CLOSE SATURDAY
Replies: 20
Views: 805

Re: WRT entries open

Pick n mix is the top priority surely?
by RIP
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 :roll: . Just have to do all the GRs two times I suppose.
by RIP
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
Replies: 36
Views: 1713

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'...
by RIP
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.
by RIP
Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Bivvy curious
Replies: 20
Views: 875

Re: Bivvy curious

fatbikephil wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:33 pm This and the tarp thread are rapidly converging....
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......
by RIP
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)

Image
by RIP
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
Replies: 18
Views: 3942

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...
by RIP
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 405
Views: 19376

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...
by RIP
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...
by RIP
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

fatbikephil wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:03 pm Good bit of tarp minimalism there Vegancheese
Aye, bonus point. Although at first glance I thought it was an innovative use of a towel, what with the colour :wink: .
by RIP
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:35 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 482408

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...