Hmm - the guy put his hand on the mirror to keep pace with him... Thats a total no-no unless your a pro and the guy in the car is the team doctor so I suspect there is more to this than the story suggests....

Interesting Bob. The gate where the access road emerges at the estate used to be locked and the kissing gate beside it too tight for a bike. There was also barbed wire wrapped round the top rails of the gate and kissing gate to make it harder for bikes to be lifted across - my Krampus has a nice big...

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https://bikepacking.com/news/bikepackin ... ast-video/
A bit more relevant to our experiences than the usual vids on bikepacking.com......

Sadly such laws are typically knee jerk reactions by politicians in order to 'be seen to be doing something' a horrible phrase that has become widely accepted in modern parlance but in fact means precisely Hee Haw - i.e its got to look like we are doing something without actually doing something. Se...

Hi that was me on the SS - 32x18. I was indecisive at the start about whether I would sleep or not, ended up bringing a bivvy and lightweight bag in case I wanted to sleep for a few hours but never used them. I want to go back and see that northern section in the daylight :-bd Well done Mike Yes th...

Good one that - actually quite a lot of scope in that general area for back road / cycleway / easy (ish) trails riding

Oof its getting quicker. I'd better have another go next year using my YD300 sleep strategy.
Was Mike Debernado single speed do you know Colin?

How's about we all swap user names and see how long it takes for people to work out who's whom.
PS cheers Stu

Iirc the hammock specific TQ are narrower. Theory being in a hanmock your UQ wraps up the sides. Yep very much this. I've a Taiga 350 hammock quilt which is perfect in my hammock but not so good on a mat if it's cold or windy. It doesn't wrap my giant manly shoulders. So, it's just not wide enough ...

Slight hijack, I was just looking at the enlightened quilts on Stu's link above as I'm after a replacement for my aging cumulus ultralight 350 for mild winter, cold spring and autumn nights. They also have a Cumulus Taiga 350 quilt - advertised as for hammocks but I can't see why it wouldn't do for ...

Stu can I do that please? Just say the word oh great one. Well if you lot are going to, I've always fancied going by a nick name I gained a few years ago (albeit from only a couple of people) - fatbikephil. HTrider is getting a bit long in the tooth now and either meaning - the bike or the Highland...

. 6 bolt is easier to live with ( In what way my experience is either method works though the rotors are not exchangeable As for hope I have the fortus( Pro 4) and it's just so annoyingly LOUD I won't have them for long I just prefer to not be deafened when freewheeling Alloy thread on hub can stri...

Raggedstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:39 pm With a Duro Crux 27.5x 3.25 from Unicycle after a bit of advice from Phil ( htrider ) it's huge !

RS4's have 2 pawls in the freehub, Pro4's have 4.
6 bolt is easier to live with (having just bought a set of Hunt wheels with centre locks )
I'd go with pro 4's but spec a stainless steel freehub.
Or as per Scot routes comment go with shimano, add 50g's but save a bomb......

Ha could be the basis of a new challenge. Cycling in a dead straight line between two points :grin: I know of one such attempt: http://korzonek.info/ppr2016/relacja/ I think he deviated a little, one km away from dead straight line, but still, quite an achievement. Marcin Excellent! Particularly th...

Good work. Silly low gears are definitely a good thing for long, long climbs. It would work well with the long wheelbase of the jones on super steep stuff to... Hmmmm

Or.... https://www.elitemountainsupplies.co.uk/camping-trekking-c4/sleeping-c17/thermarest-sleeping-mats-c19/thermarest-neoair-xlite-regular-p970/s1273?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=thermarest-neoair-xlite-regular-13213&utm_campaign=product%2Blisting%2Bads&cid=GBP&gcl...

I immediately thought fatbikes but not at that price.
Maybe its aimed at people with dodgy tubeless set ups that lose pressure over a few hours....

Hope they sort it as after trying various other things (including OS) its still about the best. Currently trying garmin basecamp which appears at first glance to be rubbish. For some reason, unasked, it downloaded all my OS maps off the garmin (I wanted it to download a gpx track) Oddly, whilst I ca...

Does this count?

The other day I took a notion to do a double century after reading Dave's 'The Year' again. And I did. Departed the house at 7 on a circuit I'd plotted to get as far north as possible. Across to Callander, up NCN7 to Killin (gravel-tastic), up glen Lochay and over the fearsome pubil road climb then ...

I always feel like I'm ahead of the game when something breaks and I fix it, particularly if you can do it cheap. Well done Stu, I've fitted three cooker elements over the years, could be the basis of a new forum :-bd Anyway, I'm laying off the beer tonight (a bit) as i'm going to have a crack at a...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 2:45 pm I tried this through the local park as the running was too hard. 0.7 miles and I failed... Hard going

Ha could be the basis of a new challenge. Cycling in a dead straight line between two points

I can recommend Surly sunrise bars on a Mondraker on-off stem on a Krampus for that modern day Klunker look