those Ural kosak bikes with sidecars Now you're talking, those Ural combinations look unstoppable. I had a ride in one of those, being imported the chair was in the middle of the road, it was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced. Specifically the dnepr urals.. They look vaguely exciting imo. Ce...

Not much motorbike heritage in my family/friends but I've dabbled over the years.. so enjoy seeing folks machines even if I don't know their background. Currently I have a recent husqvarna 125 and an old school honda africa twin. Often when I lust over future projects its things like the 70s husqvar...

Working from home :smile: Well I run a farm and various add ons even more so solo at present, so in that respect nothing has changed. Slightly jealous of all the folk I see cruising around on bikes in the sun and knocking through their odd jobs at home, but I imagine the stress of not having your in...

Which brings me into the Forestry commission closing the forests down, I think it’s just the facilities that the offer rather than all of the forest (which obviously would be almost impossible to manage). Can’t blame them Swinley Forest run by Crown estates has shut near me too. Folk were implored ...

Saw so many large family groups of walkers and folk on bikes in my neck of the woods today. One particular group decided to climb some gates and stroll across a field full of lambs with a dog off a lead, suffice to say I gave them a stark reality check coupled with a wtf are you playing at. Some peo...

Popped in the local supermarket to do some shopping for them and an isolating elderly neighbour and it was cleaned of fresh veg and meat at 10am. I haven't been to a supermarket for 2 weeks as have been effectively self isolating aka lambing. So less chance of catching much other than the disease k...

....... I really wish the Gov would move away from advice/recommendations/grey areas and just state what is absolutely necessary. Perhaps this isn't so clear or just coming over the horizon (ie next week) Most of my friends run hospitality shaped business so feel for them a lot UK Govt have taken a...

Also I wonder if horse riders are having these discussions!?

Also riding a bit at the moment. Will stick to solo rides in the local area, so pretty mellow/hardly a soul. My daily working life I feel is far riskier than my leisure cycling, but totally on board with not wanting to be any kind of burden to the nhs. Many aspects of my life are quite easily self c...

Quite possibly, but in my opinion there's a limit. I personally feel that limits been pushing since their steel frames (QBP) went up from in the region of 550 / 599 to now 800 quid for a 4130 frame set. I originally saw the products as simple, value, long lasting but that's not the case anymore for...

I've seen several folk near me plowing through flood water recently, hope they haven't lived to regret that aswell. My weekend also went awol with mechanic gremlins.. Had a jcb spewing red diesel everywhere while coming back through Henley, not the best scenario on a Sunday. Semi dismantled now yet ...

I present my knock off version of it. Having a look at this now, good work :-bd I'd mapped out some similar stuff past the western end of the Ridgeway but seeing how it links to the SDW is interesting. All I need to do is avoid Reading and route it back towards the Ridgeway eastern end and it'll be...

Thanks a bunch for your mapping efforts! Keen to have a run at this when weather changes. Finger crossed for a dry spring eh

Thomson elite layback seatpost (silver) 27.2 x 330. Good nick £30 Five Ten Freerider EPS (UK11) Dark blue =https://www.evanscycles.com/five-ten-freerider-eps-flat-shoe-EV367196 Worn twice to a pub and then shelved, I like these winterised versions just too much of a snug fit for me so never actually...

Basically Henley (on Thames)

I've been before as social relaxed way of exploring the new forest, also have a lot of time for the guys at Woods Cyclery so it's a fun event all round. I guess its more for the fancy coffee/cake gravel crowd than anything bikepacking, but equally this years dates have not worked out well. This seem...

Signed up for this, look forward to rolling around a new part of the map for me. I'm going to use this as one of a few gateway events for my partner.. which already makes me wonder what the general bike choice is!?

I got a new from Merlin for very close to the price used ones were going on ebay. Worth a look as its sale time now or very soon. https://www.merlincycles.com/thomson-elite-seatpost-black-47612.html Ah great! Many thanks for the heads up I don't suppose you'd know if I required say 150mm exposed is...

Was this from The Adventurists folk!? I've seen content from their organised Monkey run crossing the Peruvian Andes which brought a smile to my face.
That group do seem to put on some fun 'events', although obviously at a price

Can't seem to find many second hand ones around so by chance does anyone have one they wanted to sell on?
Thomson 27.2 inline seatpost 250/330 in black would be ideal! It's for a road bike

Many thanks!

I purchased this in my local store recently, mainly on a whim as never see seat stay rear lights in store.
Must say really impressed with them, to the extent going to pick up another and run a pair on my winter bike.

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yeha wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 5:52 pm I use a deore 11-42 cassette with a £2 chinese wolflink.

Some photo's here: viewtopic.php?t=14923

Yep! I use the same setup on mine. Works well giving that spinny gear when fully loaded

Ah grand! Undertaking anything like this is a bit of a roll of the dice, glad that he thankfully had some buddies on the route

Haven't watched the video yet (will wait til after work) but had read about this story on Latin bikepacking pages on fb. Remnants from riding in that neck of the woods. Scary accident! There seemed a lot of criticism of their approach along the lines of unprepared foolhardy foreigners with no helmet...

"Business in new product marketing shocker" :grin: I wouldn't wear that for servicing my bikes but they know few would. It's a styling spin / cue isn't it? I think it's good looking clothing and the price isn't daft - Levis 501s are £70-80 and a Carhartt work jacket is more than the £110 ...