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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: High mount bottle cage?
- Replies: 10
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Re: High mount bottle cage?
You could drill your own hole in the correct place, as long as there is some material to drill through?
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
- Replies: 11
- Views: 392
Re: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
Your shoe size number is related to the size of an ear of Barley.
The standardisation of bolt threads (via the Whitworth thread) is said to have played an important part in Britain winning the Crimean War through helping gunboat production. I guess that brings it a little closer to the topic...
The standardisation of bolt threads (via the Whitworth thread) is said to have played an important part in Britain winning the Crimean War through helping gunboat production. I guess that brings it a little closer to the topic...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
- Replies: 11
- Views: 392
Re: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
At danger of being called a metric using whippersnapper, I'm seeing it as
2389 metres of elevation in 185km of distance which equals just shy of 13 metres (12.91) of elevation per KM of distance.
Though obviously it won't be distributed evenly!
2389 metres of elevation in 185km of distance which equals just shy of 13 metres (12.91) of elevation per KM of distance.
Though obviously it won't be distributed evenly!
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
- Replies: 11
- Views: 392
An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
Saw this on bikepacking.com: https://bikepacking.com/routes/glenha-bikerafting-loop/ Looks quite interesting, not overly challenging and seems to be quite a good use of the raft to allow you to follow a route you couldn't do without one. The figure of 8 route means you could do it in smaller chunks ...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4946
- Views: 1256755
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Specialized Tactic 4 from Tredz at £41.99 down from £80 plus best ranking mtb/emtb helmet and 3rd overall regardless of price as tested by Virginia Tech https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html They seem to be £40 at a lot of online shops, so handy if you are buying something else...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bike Abuse, Am I bad?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 528
Re: Bike Abuse, Am I bad?
Two semi-conflicting themes for me. 1) A bike that is left in the back of the shed or somewhere for months will generally be good to go with just a wee spot of air in the tyres and potentially some chain lube. 2) Spending time cleaning a bike normally means I find lots of little bits on it to tidy u...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Morocco - hillwalking?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 491
Re: OT: Morocco - hillwalking?
Hello, am back from my holiday. In the end, we didn't camp at all. Rooms in nice (if basic) Riads/hotels were about £20 a night between the two of us... We also didn't do much hiking in the end, a couple of 2 or 3 hour ones. We were travelling to different towns each day. Can definitely see the appe...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All day comfortable, do-it-all waterproof trousers?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1111
Re: All day comfortable, do-it-all waterproof trousers?
So, after mulling this over for a while, I have just received a pair of second hand Paramo Velez trousers in the post. They seem closest to what I'm looking for and if they don't do the job I can sell them on for no/low cost. Will test them out by riding to work (20 miles) in the rain. And while, sa...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lightweight touring rack | Tailfin? Other alternatives?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 523
Re: Lightweight touring rack | Tailfin? Other alternatives?
Tortec ultra lite works well for me. Easy to fit, robust enough for anything my bike can do off road (with 38mm tyres). Can take panniers and the platform is big enough to put bags on top. They're less than £30, so not a big expenditure to try it out. Would recommend Ortlieb gravel panniers too. The...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1928
Re: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
Is there an 'optimum' age for a whisky? Is there a point of diminishing return? Chemically, almost all of the maturation flavouring happens in the first 18 months. The 3 year minimum maturation law is arbitrary. Was put in during the 1920s as a semi-prohibition measure to slow down production. Olde...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1928
Re: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
I have a masters degree in whisky distillation and maturation.
Feel free to ask anything you like.
Feel free to ask anything you like.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Morocco - hillwalking?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 491
Re: OT: Morocco - hillwalking?
Thanks for the info, and enjoyed reading about people's trips there.
Have starred a few places in Google Maps to visit.
Have starred a few places in Google Maps to visit.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Morocco - hillwalking?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 491
OT: Morocco - hillwalking?
Hello, a little off-topic but thinking there should be some people on here a little more widely-travelled than I. My pal and I have booked cheap flights to Morocco at the end of the month for a week The general plan is to hire a car, do a bit of a road trip. Sometimes stay in a hostel/hotel and some...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 783
Re: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
I once had a tankslapper on a GSXR600 at full throttle. Absolutely terrifying!
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 783
Re: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
The Mason bikes have had lots of great feedback
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2 day loop south Scotland
- Replies: 3
- Views: 316
Re: 2 day loop south Scotland
This looks pleasant:
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/borders ... -way.shtml
You could cycle down the Tweed from Peebles. Also very pleasant and there is a lot of riding of all kinds there.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/borders ... -way.shtml
You could cycle down the Tweed from Peebles. Also very pleasant and there is a lot of riding of all kinds there.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
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Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
In Glencoe last weekend
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All day comfortable, do-it-all waterproof trousers?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1111
Re: All day comfortable, do-it-all waterproof trousers?
Still mulling this over.
Saw some OMM Kameilka (sp?) ones on their refurb site which I ordered to try but turns out they were out of stock....
Anyone have experience with the Patagonia Storm ones? https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/product/ ... 25030.html
Saw some OMM Kameilka (sp?) ones on their refurb site which I ordered to try but turns out they were out of stock....
Anyone have experience with the Patagonia Storm ones? https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/product/ ... 25030.html
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All new Flextail Zero air pump
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2326
Re: All new Flextail Zero air pump
I've got the other one that John has (the white one).fatbikephil wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:38 am I'm getting one too - saves huffing and puffing!
I wonder if it will inflate a packraft?
Does my packraft no problem with lots of battery capacity left over.
Does take about 5 minutes though.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How much grief can I expect?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2440
Re: How much grief can I expect?
There's a known issue with the T5 2ltr TDI 180HP engines around that time, I think it was something to do with high oil use due to a fault with cooler, which often appears after 45,000 miles. We had a deposit on one a few years ago and walked after some research. We ended up with a 2013 140HP versi...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How much grief can I expect?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2440
Re: How much grief can I expect?
I have a new Honda Monkey 125 which covers those bases for me
Absolutely brilliant motorbike to ride and goes on a rack on the back of my camper.
Here it is in Spain last year:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx6Brg6oinm ... RvZDdrZ2tw
Absolutely brilliant motorbike to ride and goes on a rack on the back of my camper.
Here it is in Spain last year:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx6Brg6oinm ... RvZDdrZ2tw
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How much grief can I expect?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2440
Re: How much grief can I expect?
I've been looking at getting something cheap/low hassle as well, as my girlfriend is just doing her license. Automatic only. Also need something that go in to ULEZ zones (my van is a little told old) Been looking at Renault Kangoos. Come in a 1.6 petrol, automatics are available. Lots seem to have b...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How much grief can I expect?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2440
Re: How much grief can I expect?
I spent a lot of time looking at different vans. Was replacing an Leyland Daf 200! Asked the mechanic (with whom I spent a lot of time, being a Leyland Daf owner!) about which ones he sees the least of, and he said go for a French one. They're cheaper than the German ones, are more reliable and rust...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I'm off to Glencoe in the campervan.
Fireside pints, hill walking and sledging down the ski slopes.
Am in a good mood!
Fireside pints, hill walking and sledging down the ski slopes.
Am in a good mood!
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleep system configurations
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1012
Re: Sleep system configurations
I dunno what it is about those Alpkit Cloud Cover quilts, but they are sub standard. You're always cold.
Sell it and put the money towards a better one, or a down sleeping bag
Sell it and put the money towards a better one, or a down sleeping bag