:lol: Years ago, I was at some conference or other where someone stated that renewable energy schemes would only work if we reduced power consumption significantly. This was well before someone had the bright idea of running cars off electricity. The mitigating factor there is that the 5kwh you used...

One option for the rest of the world is cancel arms contracts . 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 ...

Retired in 2013, do it before your body decides it has had enough. Now into12th year of going on long cycling holidays, on week 8 away cycling this year abroad.

The rest of the world has lots of empty lands, no need to fly to the big city airports. You can still cycle out of many small European airports, and the drivers still believe cyclists are allowed on the roads. Every time I return its a shock to the system having to cycle in the UK again. I made my m...

I alway try the garmin custom route builder with the gravel setting first. Another way is looking at veloviewer heat map and if a light blue track shows up I will try it if it's close to a direction I am heading. My other half usually uses Komoot to check for routes, then looks at a map. Have this i...

Not TI but Hilleberg v pegs are good. All depends on the weight difference.

This Keeping leaderboards fair - more leaderboard improvements! 3 months ago 6 replies J jrosser Hi everyone! We recently launched an upgraded auto-flagging system designed to catch over a third more “impossible” segment times before they even show up on leaderboards (eg. The “run” that looks suspic...

On veloviewer,load up rides when I have a bunch of rides where I have not been on Strava.to increase my tile count. Have rides flagged, can't AI tell the difference between a n electric bike,car or freewheeling down a mountain road. . Bet a lot of Kom' s might be at risk if you do a segment with a h...

wouldnt it be good, if we all went back to paper maps...like we managed pre mid 2000's. forcing all the tech people to shut. it didnt seem any harder to plot a route IIRC. And not being lazy ,downloading someones gpx file. Takes all the freedom of choice away when on the bike if the gps is you guid...

If Oldmanmountain had done it's homework the bosses would positioned not to foul other manufacturers gear. Two rack heights and both are a pain. Why call it a rack , a lot of us are into multi day/week /month trips not just an overnight jaunt. All the micro panniers,bags etc are fine when you know w...

Have the Elkhorn racks , the aluminum is soft . Unless you tape up the contact points and adjust the pannier hooks ( Ortlieb gravel ) they will rub thro after a while . And one of the bosses on the leg makes clipping in the pannier a pain. Only plus is that they are flat packable good for flying . T...

Tubus racks are tough and reasonably light ,this one has clearance for 60 mm tyres it's the disco.

Bike fixed in Agadir, 300 kms of squealing Hope pro 4 bearings. Everywhere east of Agadir has next to zero modern bike spares.Even Ouarzazate was hopeless, bus to Agadir . Plan 1 find a good bike shop and see if a fix is possible.. Plan 2 Decathlon and a new back wheel. Good bike shop saved the day,...

Thanks will look again .Tubus don't do 15 mm and will check 12mm for length and thread pitch for rear axle.

Anyone used this company, ordered bolt thro axles for racks tapped M5 threads . Refunded money, wonder if they just do small production runs and with any luck they might email when more are made. Much cheaper than the Roberts project stuff.

Where are you , another cyclist sorry bikepacker we met was on his way to one of the early controls ..Crossed paths again on track north west of Skoura yesterday. Are you helping out at the control?.

A bit late but who are you following? Following Stuart Dun who has the same bike and Steffen Ziegler who I met in a cafe. Not bothered about the influencers just the ones who are there for the ride

Yes the App crashes but it's just a glitch and works next attempt. I go into the web version first to load up tiles then try loading the App. In Scotland max square is limited unless you are a good swimmer or mountaineer . It's number of tiles for me now.

Anyone stayed at the infamous hotel recently. Has it improved from 2/3 years ago?

Thanks but I give in, next phone will not be Google if its a pain to upload images . Some forums are drag and drop so why not here?

Its a description from now on, can't be bothered. Pics are on Strava Bearbones if anyone can be bothered to visit.

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That never worked.
Easy day. In Tiznit now ,down west of the N1 from Massa and dirt from El Mer Oulad Aamer into edge of town.

Why is it a pain loading pics, Google phone .