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Alpinum wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:53 pmAnd yet it feels like a Friday for no obvious reason.
A good enough reason to be cheery!
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In a break with tradition, I'm actually posting a cheery Friday post on a Friday .... project Death Trap is on the back-burner until I receive my newly reground crank and cams but as (a) I've never actually seen it in daylight and (b) it's sunny, I thought I'd drag it from the workshop and have a look. Now, I'm generally never entirely happy with anything and there'll always be something I think could be re-made or re-done better and this is perhaps no exception but all in all, I'm reasonably happy with how the thing looks ... sadly, the picture doesn't do the sparkly paint justice. There's so little of it, that it's hard to see where all the work is but I suppose the work's in making it as minimal as possible while still functioning.

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Yes that would definitely make me cheery as well lovely bit of work Stu
it looks like the sort of bike that will put a big smile on your face every time you ride it as well
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:-bd
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What does give me CF feelings and a little inward giggle is picturing the conversations I will invariably be having over the coming days/ week, when people are going to ask me if I've got anything nice planned for the weekend, or When's your next adventure?
And I'm going to have to somehow say to them that I'm going away for the weekend with a dozen or so blokes I've never met before (who call themselves Boners) - but it's ok, I know them from the internet X_X :lol:
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I’m on a train with a fully packed bike. Yay!
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Where you going Dave?
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Bearbonesnorm wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:42 pm Where you going Dave?
Is it B150 this weekend?
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Is it B150 this weekend?
He's only down the road. Thought he'd have ridden there wouldn't you?











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Bearbonesnorm wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 6:47 am In a break with tradition, I'm actually posting a cheery Friday post on a Friday .... project Death Trap......

Superb! Starting to look like something (*) :-bd

(*) something evil and badass :grin:

However, <crocdundee>Call that a cam? This is a cam [follower]</crocdundee> :wink: :grin: Just collecting a load of stuff from Uncle Bill as it happens.

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Verena wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 12:11 pm
And I'm going to have to somehow say to them that I'm going away for the weekend with a dozen or so blokes I've never met before (who call themselves Boners) - but it's ok, I know them from the internet X_X :lol:
So you're expecting a dirty weekend! :-bd
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Picture upload fail, should've been this ...

https://www.trek-lite.com/index.php?att ... peg.33209/
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Indeed - just putting a few last bits int' van and then I shall be heading south to the seaside. Today's activities include packrafting, cave exploration and Greggs and tomorrow I shall be cycling very slowly and thinking of excuses why :-bd
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As a lapsed caver I need to know about these caves Stu
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Dan yr Ogof?
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While awaiting this week's Death Trap update I've just been out to water my little babies at the bottom of the garden. This year's brood of oak saplings. Collected acorns last Autumn from various places. Sprouted 'em over the winter. Planted ten out in pots in February. This is them after only 5 months. As with all families every one is quite different. Only lost one which is good going (the pot at the front). One holly on the right, to confuse the oaks. Amazing really, the power of things wanting to be alive. Next winter I'll plant them out down by the river with their relatives from previous years. Every year for about the past six years I've sprouted ten or so acorns and planted out the ones from the year before. Quite a little mini-forest on the go now, obviously with six different heights.

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Dave Barter wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:39 am As a lapsed caver I need to know about these caves Stu
Snap, I so wanted to ask that too....
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Verena wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:38 pm
Dave Barter wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:39 am As a lapsed caver I need to know about these caves Stu
Snap, I so wanted to ask that too....
maybe http://www.ogof.org.uk/areas/sout ... aves.html :smile:

'lapsed' - quite a few of us on Here I believe :smile: . We need to sort a specific cavepacking outing.....
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Sort it Reg

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Koki. Added to the to-do list.

OFD... hmm :wink: . LNRC was the scariest one I did round there.
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Maybe interestingly, or not, the sleeping bag I use to this day was purchased back in the mid 90s, specifically as there was to be an overnight Dan Yr Ogof trip. It never happened - but I love the sleeping bag :)
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Verena wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:45 pm Maybe interestingly, or not, the sleeping bag I use to this day was purchased back in the mid 90s, specifically as there was to be an overnight Dan Yr Ogof trip. It never happened - but I love the sleeping bag :)
You could always do a DYO overnight in the intended bag 30 years late :smile:
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Stu this will make you smile.

Just seen a post of someone I know starting the French Divide ITT today, so I googled it and look what I found (read carefully)

https://www.frenchdivide.com/en/a-propo ... ch-divide/
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