MSR denali evo ascent. Yes they look like they will take a snowboard boot OK.

Thanks

I can imagine snowboarding down it ;-)

Ta for the reminder.

Yeah you’re right about user error, usually when tired on a long descent in the dark.

Haha yes that’s the other option isn’t it. I’m told that split boards work just as well downhill too. But it looks like an expensive option for an experiment. And then there is the grips and technique to learn too.

I’ve never used snowshoes, just 10pt strapped “crapons” with a long ice-axe, and a fair amount of floundering in the deeper snow pockets when up in the highlands. I generally find strap-on crampons rather dangerous, being uncomfortable, inclined to come off on mixed ground, balling up and a constant trip-hazard!

I figured if snowshoes could fit both snowboard boots and my winter hill-boots, and cost ~£100 that’s quite versatile a not too bad an investment. I’m just a bit worried that they wont fit snowboard boots.

Worn chainrings

Dog attack = police

You are not responsible for the outcome so stop worrying.

Private Schultz

Easily (44)

It will get better and worse and better again. Just hold on tight.

Narrow tyres pumped up hard roll worse off road.

My best adventures in life have all been in highlands. It has a magic no picture or film truly captures. Part of my heart will always be there.

Riding like this transcends everything you think you know about bikes and riding. Mountain biking, hiking and climbing stop being sports you do and becomes life itself. Everything else you do is just waiting to get back to that place.

That totally floated my boat. All the folk tunes!

52% and happy to kick asses when necessary (it seems)

It depends. The Tracer275 is a very efficient seated climbing bike but can just about cope with sprinting. As Lopes says, the saddle is not a seat, it’s a platform for powerful pedalling. Stand when freewheeling, always! Else you are trapped by the saddle and you will crash!

My Sov. Alternates between: “hell yeah!” and “oh sh**” from moment to moment and finishes every trail with: “I feel alive”. Not too shabby at attacking climbs either, despite its compactness. I’ll be honest and say its slow compared to the Tracer275 both up and down and sucks on those straight line continuous never let up rocky trails you get in the North.

Curiousyellow pedalled it the other day and simply said ” it’s a big BMX” before quickly putting it down! It’s peculiar character is not to everyone’s taste. I’ll never sell or scrap it.

TMo

Beanies. Ideally woolly ones, but synth ones are OK too

Climbing, yeah. Getting a bit lost and stretched in the hills. Riding bikes down tricky stuff a bit too fast. And off piste skiing. Adventure becomes a slightly unhealthy addiction. Not sure I could live entirely without it though. You feel alive.

Do something more worthwhile instead. Just don’t stay at home

This could be thread of the year

[get coffee and waits]

Why not. I wouldn’t go on a riding holiday to Spain without a local guide, it would waste so much time riding crap trails. UK is just another country with lots of good riding, much of it hidden…

I hope my health stays good enough to work in some capacity for my whole life.

First Christmas day with my sister and her daughters. Slightly apprehensive but actually looking forward to it.

Not religious either, but it takes a special kind of idiot not to love the happiness that shared experiences & expectations can bring at this time of the year.

I’m that idiot. It’s the expectations that put me off.

Unplugged

Awesome ( I’m a bit pissed)

I’ve lost weight. But gravity feels the same. The planet must be heavier.

If they wanna go, go. But I want to take my holidays there still.

I have two. Love them

Mendip rider: I know about winter mud

2.4 Mk2s are my mud condition tyre.

“I love the fact that you have to be on the ball to ride a smaller bike”

This

The night is beautiful, esp. By full moonlight. But I have had my flight reflex tripped once by am unexpected noise and it was surprising how far and fast I went before I was able to override it!

Neutrons or nanos

Frankly I never liked hard work. I like fun work, and fun to me means challenging. Sometimes it means dedicating a bit more time and focus than is comfortable to succeed, and to risk failure.

Hard work is that which makes you miserable, unrewarded and envious.

Thankfully a film that is not a “type” of film with no “messages”,no story to tell, or indulgence of vanities; just interesting stuff. Loved its pointless random incoherence and sudden turn into dark surrealism.

More filmmaking should be like this.

:-(

If you’re struggling, ask for help and help will come.

I foresee a public protest outside court.

I don’t think frames flex (in a boingy steel way) or otherwise as much as we think.

Emm “Hello!”

That’s just seated pedalling. Now imagine what it does when you corner, bike leaned over with your weight driving through the pedals.

Slice up some old inner tube into small strips and keep in bag with jewellers screwdriver and patch glue. Put glue in and around the tear then shove the strips in with the screwdriver. Let it dry. The goop left in the tyre should now seal it. Ideally trim off anything left sticking out.

Vanity killing. Horrible people.