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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cranktank 3 vs cages on fork + smartwater bottles
- Replies: 20
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Re: Cranktank 3 vs cages on fork + smartwater bottles
If you have a frame bag, then there's cheaperer options like the Apidura frame pack hydration bladder . I wear a CamelBak Chase with 1.5L reservoir, while I'm not mad keen on wearing it on hot days, it's nice to have the equivalent of a couple of big bottles of water on me. I do occasionally run out...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Ouch, I feel your ditch pain. Heal quickly.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
https://meagaidhblog.sais.gov.uk/2024/04/an-cearcallach-moy-coire-rain-snow-rain/ See images of Met Office forecast over March - looks like we need to head to NW Scotland. Similar parallels to 2012 when The NW got roasted and the rest of the UK nearly drowned, for the whole of spring and summer. We...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Evidently, in February, we had 248% of the twenty year average rain fall around here.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 983
- Views: 134730
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
Lighter weight fly material as well, 10D v 15D...riderdown wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:58 amLooks the same as https://www.sportpursuit.com/catalog/pr ... id/2679553Alpkit have an new 900g tent, the Ultra 1.
But with carbon fibre poles
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4944
- Views: 1253915
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
You mean you don't want to curate your kit down to the last detail...?
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Headed out late last night after disco night at the ice rink. Would've been earlier but needed to chat to my wife about our daughter who has gone and given herself an eating disorder that is way worse that we first feared*. 😞 Conditions were super grippy and I had to stop multiple times to scrape mu...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cleaning tyre sealant off a frame
- Replies: 2
- Views: 783
Cleaning tyre sealant off a frame
The arse end of my gravel bike is covered in dried on tyre sealant. It doesn't seem to want to come off with the application of detergent and elbow grease. Anyone got any tips on how to clean it off...?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
So has anyone studied what looks like an inverse correlation between the time remaining in the month to get in a bivvy, and the likelihood of it being raining? It was absolutely hoofing it down last night; tomorrow is looking rather bad as well. Was thinking about going out tonight, but daughter is...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The Wolf Way
- Replies: 5
- Views: 962
Re: The Wolf Way
Note that this isn't a year round route, due to the Felixstowe Ferry : Daily service from May to September, weekends only from Good Friday to 30 April and October. 10:00am – 5.00pm (weather permitting). EDIT: My first thought after looking at that is they've managed to make various bits nice and con...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
- Views: 1982511
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 534507
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just about to go and shove 1KG of coffee beans through my new grinder. I'm like a kid with a new toy... 😀 Bob. It's Friday evening, you should be drinking beer, not coffee! It was a kilo bag of the cheapest crap I could find, no way would I want to make anything with the resulting grounds. 🤮 Will b...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 534507
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just about to go and shove 1KG of coffee beans through my new grinder. I'm like a kid with a new toy...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
- Views: 1982511
Re: The post man's been ...
I'm at the office, but have had an email telling me my new coffee grinder has been delivered...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: North York Moors 300
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2777
Re: North York Moors 300
The chute of death "a bit lumpy"...!?! I got off and walked.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49749
Re: What are you reading now?
Suddenly remembered, Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham is out on paperback today...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49749
Re: What are you reading now?
Finished reading The Physics of Filter Coffee by Jonathan Gagné and bought a new coffee grinder yesterday. Also recently read: 1923 : The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting, which I thought was brilliant and strangely emotional; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, so good...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: North York Moors 300
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2777
Re: North York Moors 300
yorkshirebiking wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:36 pm There won't be a 300 mile route this year but there will be one for 2025.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 273619
Re: What you done t' your bike today
I've looked but they appear to be shaped in such a way that they'd cause me even more issues. The flat side-to-side shapes usually dig into my arse/leg/groin crease when I'm climbing (hips rotated forwards) and cause pain/numbness. Rounder and narrower shapes seem better for me but I've still not f...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
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Re: What you done t' your bike today
Have you looked at the SQ Lab ones...? You can get most of the range from Tweeks Cycles. https://www.sq-lab.com/en/products/sadd ... e-2-1.html
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: North York Moors 300
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2777
Re: North York Moors 300
It's longer than feared https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45752621?fbclid=IwAR3Bcf39yHtaZBWBS4ueBj_q1-NXJR8nW3raXT3eeT17m2JzuintYO5poT8 He's a naughty boy. For those on FB https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ASRKat84arWhpB9C/ Start Skipton, reverse YD300 to Pately Bridge, nip across to Thirsk and ride NY...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
No problem Boab. They're the Exped Camp Booties. A bit of a luxury item I suppose but I always take them on my winter bivvies. They've got a decent waterproof sole, too, incidentally. Here's the link and I notice they're now on at a reduced price: :-bd https://thebucketlistcompany.co.uk/product/exp...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49749
Re: What are you reading now?
I have two copies of 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby, after WOB sent me one that was definitely not in "very good" condition. If anyone wants it, then let me know...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 45499
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: North York Moors 300
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2777
Re: North York Moors 300
Bloody hell, one of the things I like about that route last year was that it wasn't a complete mission (a la BB300 :(( ) I see he has missed the railway line of headwind doom out and added the inclined plain. I think he was also going to try and remove some of the road riding in the forest. Yeah, i...