I've recently tried to get some product availability info' from them, to no avail.

Website is simply a landing page that requests your e-mail. It's a pretty poor show from a new leadership team that should know a lot about effective communication .

Time for another session of.... yes!.... BromGigPacking :-bd . Mentioned to Mrs P that I was intending to a/ do my June BaM, and b/ attend yet another Young Persons Popular Music Concert. "What? TWO outings in a month?" quoth she. Aha, says Reg, playing his trump card (not Trump card), I'...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:44 am If I wasn't already half balled...

Ouch! Sounds unfortunate. Is the other one in the Albert Hall?

Perhaps a bespoke saddle would help

Mountain-bikers!

Tired of your water sloshing around inside your piss bottle on a bumpy ride?

Just replace the water with ice-cream and strawberries, then enjoy a tasty milkshake instead!

Surely Viz solved this problem (for cyclists) years ago with the Clag-Gone?

Anyway, also surprised nobody's mentioned one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Summit-Kitchen-Sink-Liters/dp/B000NQQ5BO/ref=asc_df_B000NQQ5BO?mcid=bf79148ff0033799b7599396cc47484a&th=1&psc=1&hvocijid=12270907369516445624-B000NQQ5BO-&hvexpln=74&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode...

MSR Trailsh*t?
Camelback?
Mess tin?
River?

Do they do a Thermos fitting for winter ablutions?

I'm a bit late getting to this one, I expect it to be changed out soon. Once at work I thought it would be rude not to hang the tarp to dry off in the shed one last time :grin: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54554404132_35586d866c_c.jpg As there are no windows I assume all the moisture is abso...

A last-minute local Utility BaM. Too warm for a bivi bag. Good, solid sleep until 05.00: best night's bivi sleep I've had in ages .

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKRDTmYo6f2 ... N6dnhjbm1m

20/20

Verena wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 7:35 am ...bluebell BAM this time next year...

Excellent idea!

Valerio wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 10:10 am ...cars parked in the middle of the road, long queues...

Hey! They've paid their "road tax" .

They should've taken parking lessons from this chap:
https://youtu.be/3-MaC9fFtz0?feature=shared

Still battling with my hobo mojo though this year, I think I've burned myself out with last year's full-on collection of madcap schemes. Here you go: HoverBivi . Your challenge is combine a bivi with a visit to a hovercraft factory or musuem :cool: . https://www.griffonhoverwork.com/ https://hoverc...

I find Reg-BAMs, physically, are pretty easy. But mentally: very demanding

As renationalisation seems to be politically fashionable I suppose we can look forward to British Rail Mk2 placing a whopping order for a new fleet of hovercraft, made using British steel .

19/19

I'm sorry for the loss of your father: a big trip sounds like the ideal tonic :smile: . You may find the Rough Stuff Fellowship, Adventure Cycling Association and Bikepacking (as well as 'Boners, of course) of help . https://www.rsf.org.uk/ https://www.adventurecycling.org/ https://bikepacking.com/

Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, John.

Longer opening hours for VE day, giving us the opportunity to spend more time in "...the nation's second home."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg24x5l404o

Yes last day for about ten days, off on the overnight boat on Sunday heading down to Wiltshire for a few days with the bikes, probably spend a bit of time in the Marlborough Downs, perhaps Salisbury Plain and possibly Forest of Dean, looking at a potter along the Kennet and Avon canal to Bath too. ...

...and it's led to a "Of course: marshmallows expand in a vacuum" declaration. Although why someone has been trying to vacuum-up marshmallows in this house is beyond me .

I was just about to post that, too .

It leads to this...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41612812

...which reminds me of the Frankie Boyle "How many Fruit Pastilles does it take to choke a kestrel?" student research .

I took the little car out for a pre-breakfast blast towards Silverstone and am currently "not-WFH" in this café, near the circuit https://blackpitbrewery.co.uk/ .

This may become a Friday ritual: just don't tell anyone .

.... And for us insignificant people don't buy American products. America will feel it because cash is king . Cancelled Strava premium etc. Governments should fight fire with fire none of the appeasement like reducing US tech tax ,put it up to the level Trump wants. Free trade will return if US fee...

"Have a purpose" in retirement is something I've heard and read often. What's the view on this?

AndreR wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:55 am ...quality time with my pint...

Absolute bliss!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-VMpdIA0T ... R0Zjg2YWkx

March BaM at The Brown Dog's country residence. Bicycles were involved. "Spot The Reg", lurking in the background.

18/18

Another last-minute BaM :roll: . Continuing the "bird hide" theme I headed south last night to somewhere between Tring and Aston Clinton to the most palatial one so far: space for 'Boners-a-plenty and it even had a door to keep out the draughts. There was wildlife artwork, too :-bd . The r...