The 2011 Welsh Ride Thing is GO!

Kimbers, behave.
Don’t try and get this thread closed.

Edit:
Thank you mods.

Top of the page now! RESULT!

Kerpow the power of the mods 8)

+ Flatfish gets the 12 page

Can someone explain the last four posts please?

Kimbers was trying to be a clever little boy whilst referring to the premiership footballer v twitter topic. As there was best part of a dozen threads closed last night he thought he’d try to be funny but just got modded instead.

Ian any chance you could email the PS clone file?

PS clone file?

Are we looking for Dolly the sheep when we are out there??

And the genuine cone is 0.25mm thick, may have found a supplier of sheet

oh well weather is mixed for next weekend

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Wales/Machynlleth~2643251/long.html

Weather looks a little like last year … poor Sat then getting better.

Saying that, I’ve been coaching at CyB today and the forecast was really bad … we didn’t get wet!

And the genuine cone is 0.25mm thick, may have found a supplier of sheet

Details please, if you would be so kind 🙂

Top Secret* PS Clone file sent.

* not really…

what is the PS clone file then peeps??

It’s the post script (.ps) file I used for creating my Caldera Clone, as detailed on the other thread

oh ok, I thought it was a gov’t secret file on the black art of backpacking in mid Wales 😉

That Caldera looked great the other week, even though it melted a tad it certainly improved the performance of your stove

Yes, 0.15mm foil is too thin. Interesting that the genuine Caldera one is 0.25mm. If I could get hold of some, then I can make one with the fissures in it so it can be split into two pieces for easier storage, which is something that the Caldera ones don’t do…

argh it’s getting worse

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Wales/Machynlleth~2643251/long.html

It’s a week away, think positive.

I will taylor for sure 😉

Stu promised dry weather didn’t he???

I’ll try anything to have it 95% dry

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Yori, or whatever his name is said it would be sunny last year.
BLOODY LIAR.
I was stripping off on the petrol station forecourt in ponterwyd last year I was so cold and wet. Got quite a few dissaproving looks while semi naked.

ha now there’s an image 😯

you won’t be doing that this year with Sally in tow surely??

oops sorry 😳

It’ll be like a willy but smaller. 😯

Quick question – if I wanted to attach a bottle cage to my fork legs that don’t have specific bosses, what would I need and where can would I buy it from?

good news though I found my tube of Assos cream today 😀

My favorite memory from last year was wading waist deep through the bog at the end of the Monks Trod on Saturday evening, desperately trying to get to the pub at Ffair Rhos. Oh and the bit when the landlord said we could dry all our clothes in his tumble dryer wasn’t bad either 🙂

I have a couple you can borrow if you don’t want to buy any, or try before you buy type thing.

Methods for Attaching Water Bottle Cages without screws and bosses

some ideas above Ian

@IanB the mounts in the pic work great … look like they shouldn’t but do 😉

No complaints about the weather please … I’ll be out guiding today and am willing to take the full brunt of it for you, so it’ll be nice next weekend. Surely there can only be so much rain 😀

Hmmm, think I’ve decided on what tyres. I put some fast rolling Specialized Fast Traks on the bike yesterday but they weren’t as chunky as I remember them being when I rode them to and around the Picos de Europa a couple of years ago so I put the similar sized & more grippy Maxxis Ignitors back on.

So I’ve now moved onto my next WRT dilemma. 105mm or 120mm travel forks? 😕

Slugwash my thoughts with the bike loaded I wont be ragging the bike so depends if you want to win the heavyweight prize?? If so choose the heaviest 😉

Tyres I am going with the fast rolling Bonty’s I have mininmal knobbly bits to give me all the assistance I can get.

I’ve got bored of weighing stuff, so just raided the gearboxes, assumed it Wales and it will be wetter than a crushed melon.

As wet as Otter’s pocket

C’mon it will be as dry as a desert you know it will 😯

Saw an otter today at Bristol Zoo. It looked quite wet.

Met Office have issued extreme warning for Wales this week for the high winds, and thunder showers for Thursday 😆

The bike is loaded managed to get everything bar waterproofs stashed onboard, and god knows what the weight is as I’ve gone prepared for lousy weather. 😯 Now the postman needs to be a good guy and get my stuff to me!

There’s a section of the forest here that got christened ‘otters pocket’ after my very first ride 😀

Edit: Forecast said very heavy rain and thunderstorms for today, instead we’ve had some wind and a little light rain 😉

yeah it’s staying up there to rain doubly hard when we head off 😉

well Steve and I will be ok we’ve just off road proofed his camper 😉 so we don’t have to leave the comfort behind.

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or there maybe a bit of channel grease being applied 😯

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how to make it:

http://www.thechannelswimmers.com/Resources/Swimmer%20Articles/Mike%20Oram%20-%20The%20Swim%20-%20All%20About%20Grease.pdf

Stu the competition looks appealing 😉

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cambrian-bike-fest-next-weekend

WRT doesn’t have competition … it is a unique event for the hardcore, elite, fool hardy or just plain nerdy 😉

Breakfast buffet £5 😉