some race Face cranks from slarge
cheers mate

Some Arcteryx goretex Bora boots for the handsome sum of only £99... Feel nice and hopefully eill go well with the mtb

Some Galaxy earbuds as a reward (any excuse!) to myself for getting chartered and as it's the only what I can get stuff done in the office with all the noisy, wittering dicks ......

Finally - Just back from holidays and collected my parcel (after paying the customs charge)

Time to play with my new Lair

The other day tried using my road Topeak (pocketrocket) pump on the tubeless semifat rider was almost over before it even started and as you can imagine pressure after pumping was lower than before. Rear tyre pumped up fine...

Luckily my elder bro had his mtb topeak pump and saved the day... so here's my shint new'un... for the handsome price of only 18£ after halfords price match and brit cycling discount



Bit big (and I know its a long shot and hit/miss) but it might get me outta trouble...

Ten pairs or waterproof over socks from Amazon. Seem more like plastic bags if you ask me!

Still thin Merinos, inside the plastic bags inside sealskins, inside Lake boots, nice and sweaty, but should cope with Welsh weather.

IMG_1725 by Duncan Lovett, on Flickr

Ten pairs or waterproof over socks from Amazon. Seem more like plastic bags if you ask me!

Still thin Merinos, inside the plastic bags inside sealskins, inside Lake boots, nice and sweaty, but should cope with Welsh weather.

IMG_1725 by Duncan Lovett, on Flickr

My lucky day another parcel containing a Cane Creek 27.2 seatpost shim.

Duncan... wow. You've gone all out there... You sure the Lakes aren't gonna become Lakes from sweat inside and water rynning down the legs (although I assume with that much protection you're gonna be covered from the waste down with some sort of proofed pants

Why not tske a spare couple of plastic bags (them ones you've boight off amazon) and 2 sets of Dexshells (sorry, I can't bring myself to say the word... Sealspinz)... Then once your Lakes do become Lakes with water ingress from uptop... swap out socks for some freshies and apply said waterproof bag over/or under depending on how you look at things...

That way you stay comfier (hopefully) for longer and dry enough just a thought... I have no experience of BB200s just standard mtbing around them there Welsh hills in small doses...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:29 pm just a thought... I have no experience of BB200s just standard mtbing around them there Welsh hills in small doses...

that's basically it but with more cold water on the ground and failing from the sky!

The Final layer for crossing streams.

IMG_1726 by Duncan Lovett, on Flickr

Did I say I don't like getting cold or wet feet?

For riding in Skin, Merino Socks, Amazon shoe protector (plastic bag) Sealskins (washed with waterproofer), Lake Boots (water proof spray all over them), Pearl Izumi over shoes to put on top for any river crossings, Amazon Waterproof Shoe covers. I'm still taking spare plastic bags and socks incase all that lot let me down, which is quite likely.

IMG_1727 by Duncan Lovett, on Flickr

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:29 pm Duncan... wow. You've gone all out there... You sure the Lakes aren't gonna become Lakes from sweat inside and water rynning down the legs (although I assume with that much protection you're gonna be covered from the waste down with some sort of proofed pants

Why not tske a spare couple of plastic bags (them ones you've boight off amazon) and 2 sets of Dexshells (sorry, I can't bring myself to say the word... Sealspinz)... Then once your Lakes do become Lakes with water ingress from uptop... swap out socks for some freshies and apply said waterproof bag over/or under depending on how you look at things...

That way you stay comfier (hopefully) for longer and dry enough just a thought... I have no experience of BB200s just standard mtbing around them there Welsh hills in small doses...

A new acronym is needed ...

YOPS = Your Own Personal Sauna

The forecast is only down to 10C.

whitestone wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:15 pm A new acronym is needed ...

YOPS = Your Own Personal Sauna

The forecast is only down to 10C.

For Northerners that's fine, but coming as I do from the Tropical South of the Country, even the Brass Monkeys are layered up in those temperatures.

Either that or I will make a killing selling the other nine pairs at the first river crossing!!

I'm liking that set up!
I may be from the north but I've crap circulation in my toes and nearly always get cold feet when they get wet....

picked up from the PO depot a little package of lovely carbon pole from Bearbones towers
Thanks Stu

...and dropped off a little blue valve core remover. Now I just need to find time to use it

Some additional waterproof spray to add another few layers of waterproofness to my lakes.

Really big thumbs up to Tredz bike store...

Ordered the Nukeproof Neutron Evo flatties yesterday from them online. Used the discount voucher of a fiver (on spends over £30) and then rang em up to explain I'm needing pedals for the BB200 this weekend (he wasn't envious and knew what it was) amd even though they were a quid or 2 cheaper at CRC I'd decided to go with Tredz cos of the way CRC isn't as fast as they used to be...

Nice man at Tredz upgraded my delivery slot to next day - no extra charge - and here they are in my hands ready to go on Stan...

Well done Tredz (and thanks for the input from here )

OK, I admit it. I've gone soft. One of these 'ere midge nets arrived today. Bit annoyed that I've just checked again and RockNRun are now doing the permethrin one (same weight) even cheaper, sigh. I've got a superlight headnet but it's itchy, and this thing is insanely light at 80g for full coverage, although it'll probably only last ten minutes. It's not the midges so much as our slimey nocturnal friends. I woke up screaming at Corris on the Saga Outing - tarp only, pissing with rain. I'd already had to get up once for a pee, and again to lower the front pole to reduce the risk of drowning. Next woke up with a huge (picture, say, a whale in your mind) gastropod mollusc (I assume "gastro" doesn't actually mean they're good to eat?), JUST about to transfer itself from my sleeping bag hood to my forehead. It's happened before - they always aim for my forehead. I think its front legs or whatever they are had JUST touched my skin. Cue rabid screaming, scrabbling manically to chuck the slug into the bushes, thrashing around to get out of bag, tarp collapsing, bike falling over, house lights coming on all around the village, me running madly around clad only in a collapsed tarp.

When I rang to check, apparently the young lady inside does not come as standard with the net - extra cost and P&P.

And there's me thinking you may have taken delivery of a puggaree and some sperm oil

p.s. - wondered what that scream was

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:15 am OK, I admit it. I've gone soft. One of these 'ere midge nets arrived today. Bit annoyed that I've just checked again and RockNRun are now doing the permethrin one (same weight) even cheaper, sigh. I've got a superlight headnet but it's itchy, and this thing is insanely light at 80g for full coverage, although it'll probably only last ten minutes. It's not the midges so much as our slimey nocturnal friends. I woke up screaming at Corris on the Saga Outing - tarp only, pissing with rain. I'd already had to get up once for a pee, and again to lower the front pole to reduce the risk of drowning. Next woke up with a huge (picture, say, a whale in your mind) gastropod mollusc (I assume "gastro" doesn't actually mean they're good to eat?), JUST about transfer itself from my sleeping bag hood to my forehead. It's happened before - they always aim for my forehead. I think its front legs are whatever they are had JUST touched my skin. Cue rabid screaming, thrashing around to get out of bag, tarp collapsing, bike falling over, house lights coming on all around the village, me running madly around clad only in a collapsed tarp.

When I rang to check, apparently the young lady inside does not come as standard with the net - extra cost.

A pair of Alpkit merino long johns (for bivy pyjamas) for me and a pair of Parallax overtrousers for Cath - don't know why she thinks she needs those

(last week) A nice little drop from QBP. I've only got a few weeks on her but the next month should be fun, timed well for my week off next week. Got some places to tick off up north
Full story coming November/December on fat-bike.com
20191010_094520 by Jeff Price, on Flickr

And delivered some SON coaxial cable, dynamo connector and coax plugs. The plan being to replace my shonky wiring with something a bit more substantial.

Coax adapter on hub, coax to sinewave with the opportunity to then carry a spare cable for the easily damaged section on the fork
leg. May seem like overkill but if you put your faith in electronic navigation you need a plan