I used to work with a former paramedic who spent a lot of time in the Canadian wilderness, she always said no point in carrying a first aid kit as serious injury's cant be dealt with by anything in a standard kit anyway. Her view was that a t-shirt or similar is as good as a bandage for a major blee...

Thanks for the responses, I've only just read them and really appreciate the help. If there is no simple way of doing either a big multi day loop or route equivalent to the GTJ then I think that rules out fatbikes for us, part of the challenge for us would be accomplishing a big route rather than ju...

Thanks Gairy, looking forward to it. I've just had a good look at your fatbiking site, looks great.

First night of a trip usually go for fresh stuffed pasta from a supermarket. Subsequent nights dried pasta (200g) and a tomato based sauce for dinner. If you use the tiny soup pasta it cooks quickly and also takes up less space. Followed by custard with some kind of cereal bar (or 2) thrown in. Then...

Amazing - I haven't been on this site for a while but came on to specifically ask about fat biking in the Jura and this popped up! A mate and I do a "silly" winter trip once a year, it usually involves type 2 fun and being very cold and on the edge of what we are physically capable of, and...

I have a PHD minum 300 which I use for spring and autumn, it weighs about 550g, 95/5 900 fill down from memory, rated about 0. The loft is amazing, it lofts almost as big as my alpkit pipedream 600 winter bag when stored loose but folds down much smaller. I think mine was premade and in stock rather...

Thanks for the comments, it was the power bar thing that got me thinking about the idea in the first place, a mate got one yesterday.
Some of those others look good, I'll do some more research and once I've bought one and tried it I'll report back

I have a bicycle 7 tarp and a hunka, combined they weigh about 850g, make that at least 900g by the time you add pegs and guylines, and about a kilo if you want to carry a pole. If there are 2 of you add another bivy bag and you are talking at least 1.4kg I have a couple of 2 man tents, alpkit delta...

I bought the WCW plymouth - Taunton route and rode it with a mate 2 years ago, navigating just using the supplied route cards and maps (which they advise against :lol: ) obviously ignoring all the outdated advice about not carrying all your kit. We took it easy, 160 miles over 4 days, could have don...

Planning a 4 day ride across the Quantocks, Exmoor, Dartmoor and home next month and want to navigate using breadcrumb trail on my edge 200 (before anyone tries to talk me out of navigating like this I've done it quite a few times and happy with it :-bd ) But I know my garmin will only last a couple...

I was after some waterproof 3/4 shorts but the prices were bonkers, so I bought a pair of army surplus goretex trousers off fleabay and just cut them down and hemmed them. They are reasonably light and very waterproof, but they're pretty noisy and you do have to keep hitching them up as the shock c...

Work have kindly just updated our phones to HTC 8X which run windows 8. I'm not very techy so rather than me spend the next 2 years fathoming it out and nail it 2 weeks before they replace them I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows of any good bike related apps? I'm mostly interested in: GPS type m...

I agree this looks good, please can someone post up here how they get on with it, particularly interested in real world times to filter say a litre.

slowupslowdown wrote:need something which packs up nice and small but is snug enough when used with a liner

thank you!

If Stuart doesn't sort you out with something and you aren't too price sensitive check out phd's sale, still expensive but you won't find warmer for the weight. I love my minim 300, 0 degrees 570g :D

It has sliding dropouts but they're not lynskeys standard ones. I had a Rohloff specific slider made (modelled and had it cnc'd) but that wasnt the cheapest thing to do. neat though.

Don't suppose you still have the drawings?

Bummer about the shoulder, looks nasty. If you will generally be going out in pairs I'd definitely go for the alpkit delta, I have quite a bit of kit (other lightweight tents, hooped bivi, bivi, tarps etc) and if there was 2 of us in anything other than exceptional weather (good or bad) I would take...

I'll second Shand Cycles too, lovely bikes. You could also check out Oak Cycles. Shand seem to focus on road/cx rather than mtb? Oak look more my thing and it would be lovely to have a totally bespoke steel bike which would go on forever and you could just re-powder coat every 10 or so years, but I...

Cracking looking bike that FLV, that's pretty much what I'm aiming for.

What frame is it (cant quite read it) and do you know what it weighs in total?

Similar thoughts here.... a few months ago i bought a Salsa El Mariachi ( steel 29nr ) frame It has "Alternator" dropouts which give easy chain tensioning, a std bottom bracket shell ( no EBB ) and you can get different dropouts for geared, singlespeed and Rohloff setups The frame is not ...

Thanks for the input. I think if I was planning on some epic multi month trip into far flung places I'd go steel, but most ti frames seem to have good warranties. I have a steel kinesis decade and I really want to like it, but I just don't! I much prefer my on one carbon 456, and I think a big part ...

I'm looking to build the 'ultimate' bike for all round mtb'ing, bike packing, regular winter commuting (20 miles mix of on and off road), JOGLE off road in 2015 and maybe (just maybe) the tour divide (leisure not race) within the next 5-7 years. I am thinking: Titanium frame 29 er with sliding dropo...

I bought a Rab Cirrus on a whim in the sale which seemed good but I took it back as I decided it wasn't necessary. I have a montane wind proof jobby which I use commuting but I wouldn't bother with that on a trip, I now take a montane velo h20 which is totally waterproof but only marginally less bre...

Charge saddle and grips ordered!
Very cheap seatposts there too (as long as you want 31.6mm orange)

I have a delta and really like it. The inner is odd, the floor is perfect and one half of it is perfect, and one side is slightly the wrong shape and missing a toggle. I have thought about tweaking it to make it perfect, but can't be arsed! For the money you can't go wrong. http://farm8.staticflickr...

I've been let down by a mate who I was going to take out fo his first bike packing trip this weekend way down in the Wild West, anyone fancy taking his place?!