If you fancy breaking the trip up I can thoroughly recommend staying at Skiddaw House 🙂

Might add my battery was 4 years old at when I changed it.

Pay 79p a month for 50Gb cloud storage with Apple, then there is a setting which will make your phone use that to free up storage (and maintain it) on your phone.

It can be a bit of a pain when browsing photos and you don’t have a local copy though.

I think the way to recalibrate your phones battery is to run it down to below 10% and then leave it on an uninterrupted charge to 100%

If you think your battery is totally gone then you can replace it yourself for ~£20, I recently did this on my 5S. I bought the iFixit battery and took set and followed the guide:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+5s+Battery+Replacement/19239

It’s easy enough, most difficult bit is removing the glue which holds the battery in place. The tooth floss technique sorted me out for 1 tab of glue. I guess the connectors can be a bit fiddly if you’re not used to them. Also be careful removing the old battery, if you damage it they do go bang quite spectacularly.

The Soul page on the Cotic website in Dec 2002:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021218084407/http://www.cotic.co.uk:80/

A bike packing Bird!

You’ve turned it off and on again right?

Fibre to the cabinet isn’t always faster than your normal service. If you’re a reasonable distance from the cabinet then it is likely to be slower.

Fibre from the cabinet trades off noise resilience (i.e. how far the broadband signal will travel) for speed. If you live near cabinet this works great, however after a certain distance it drops off rapidly.

If you aren’t streaming lots of content go for 4G, it wouldn’t work for our household usage, but for a lot of people it’ll work fine.

My Motorbike has a smaller mud guard!

It looks like it’ll do its job well.

Andrew and Arnold. It isn’t the cheapest but it’s a proper professional service. Way better than BT. I used to get regular DNS timeouts (I think that was the issue), where big sites (Google, Facebook) just wouldn’t load. All disappeared since moving.

Admittedly the router has synced at a slower speed than BT but it’s more reliable so feels like a better service overall. No point having high bandwidth if you can’t use it when you want!

Also quite like the fact there is 2 factor authentication on the account and you get an email when the internet goes down, and then another when it comes back up. Regardless if it was a problem upstream or just a local power cut.

That mud guard though 😯

The Berwyns? Potentially you could get your partner to drop you off and you cycle back to the lodge? Linear route gives you chance to have more fun.

There was piece featuring the Berwyns in Singletrack:
http://singletrackworld.com/magarchive/issue-112/

There is also a small bothy near Bala which makes for a nice all weather picnic spot. Can imagine it being fun for kids too? Check the MBA website.

Thanks for the advice everyone. We’ve both got Scottish winter mountaineering experience and one is ML trained. Although both have only done a couple of bike packing trips and very little Scottish big mountain mountain biking experience.

I picked a night over at Fords of Avon to make day 2 a bit more manageable. Could extend it down to Faindouran Lodge but that makes day 1 too long. Not good news about it being a dank hole, I was thinking it might warm up with 2 of us in it.

Perhaps I’d be better re-thinking the whole route.

Cheers!

I saw it was 3 degrees on the top of Cairngorm today.

Had mine less than a year and it’s been great. Set up was fiddly and took a couple of attempts to get right. Also struggled getting the air pressure right. Had to buy a Topeak Pressure Rite to get it right. Basically the unscrewing of the shock pump caused all the air to escape.

Demo’ed a couple of bikes recently and haven’t gotten on with the other shorter/slower dropper posts

I am from the NW and had Bury blackpudding cooked from a market stall in Bury Market.

Stornaway is still the best I’ve had.

Really not a fan of the Audi auto boxes. Put your foot down to take a space entering a round-a-bout and nothing happens for a good second or two… Which turns a reasonable if you get a move on space into a tight gap. Maybe you get used to it and drive round it but that sort of defeats the point!

A fairly good guide to base layer science[/url]

Harvey maps are great, but they’d dont cover everywhere unfortunately.

Might be worth viewing maps in 3D if you want to instantly see the topography. OS app allows this I believe as does Google Maps…

When I say poppy the FlareMAX literally popped out of the berms.

I don’t think I want a long travel bike, hence my current short list of Evil Following, Cotic FlareMAX, and Orange Stage 5.

Everyone I speak to that has ridden a Following just says how fun the bike is compared to everything else they’ve tried. I’ve yet to hear anyone really criticise the bike (although the company gets bad press).

Thanks for that post fatgit. That was the sort of post I was after…

Apparently Evil are selecting a few local bike shops to distribute from as well. Don’t think Silverfish will be too happy.

I’ll get in contact with them, however they don’t list Evil as a brand on their website.

The Following would be coming from a local bike shop so I hope they’d provide some back up… However from what I’ve read Evil have improved a lot since the early days.

https://www.splitticketing.com

Also Northern Rail now have an evening peak time, which is a pain in the arse.

Is he in the middle of a heavily student populated area? It will most likely be that every property is full of 4+ students all wanting to stream everything.

We paid for (and in theory received) 100mb Virgin in a 8 bed house in the centre of Hyde Park in Leeds (dense student population). We got less than 1 Mb it was unusable most of the time, continuous time outs despite a high sync speed a 100Mb sync speed on the router. Neighbour’s did better on the ADSL – Virgin Media was very popular with students, but didn’t have the infrastructure to deal with it.

A friend’s blog post from a few years back gives a good guide:

How to wash and reproof waterproof-breathable clothing

Warm the tyre up, grease the tyre sidewalk with something like swarfega

It’s meant to have the same internals as the 9point8 fall line dropper right?

On the 9point8 those symptoms you described would be similar to a post which has the cable too tight, preventing the brake from locking out. There should be some play in the cable when at ‘rest’.

Used Monzo abroad and it’s great. Also use it day to day as it’s better than anything else out there, will be moving to their current account as soon I can

If you are in an office with multiple zone controllers you can centrally set the temperature and then lock off the function of all local area control panels.

Ask the tech end of your operation if that is the case.

This. If you have multiple thermostats in one large office make it so they are all set at the same temperature and speed. The temperature in our office is so much more stable and therefore tolerable now they’re locked out. Yes 23C is way warmer than I’d like but at it ok and doesn’t get any warmer. Previously it would be all over the shot.

Every slow cooker recipe I’ve done is always flavourless compared to a more traditional approach. There is always too much liquid at the end which I then reduce down to try and reclaim some flavour but it’s never the same/better.

Any ideas?

Crows are pretty horrible. They will eat the eyes, tongues, belly button, arse hole, of newly [or being] born lambs which don’t have a good mother.

For data try a Three SIM card… I paid £20 for 12GB of data which I could use abroad for no extra charge. Even when in America… although the Internet was dog slow when in the states.

Best motorsport documentary I’ve seen:

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/britten-backyard-visionary-1993

I am going to assume there used to be a post between mine and the 7 month one that got deleted. Otherwise I am none the wise to how I managed to find this thread. Oh well I’ll just look like a right spammer!

Saw this at Brit Rock film festival (I think) in Hebden Bridge cinema… probably the best film there if I am honest. You wouldn’t think a fell running film could be so good!

http://www.posingproductions.com/running-films/Wainwright/Wainwright.html

I’d go for using a bothy instead of bivving. Done a couple of trip using trains and bothies and both pretty enjoyable for different reasons…

If you’re going really light then use bubble wrap for your sleeping mat.

And some more information on down if you’re looking at buying a new bag:
https://gearandmountains.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/get-down-on-it/
Fill power is no super power

How important is a “sharp” corner? If it’s milled then you’ll want a minimum radius on the corners to specify what diameter cutter they use.

(Happy to be corrected, not a machinist or mechanical engineer!)

There was a scam going round which targeted farmers with bails of waste. They knocked on your door and ask to storr these bails on your land for a small amount of money. They drop off the bails and never come to collect them.

The bails are low quality waste. The decent stuff is sold to Scandinavia countries which burn them for electricity.

This should be all tracable, the waste reprocessing sites will have paid some one to remove this and will have a record of what they sold and when. It’s a case for the EA to investigate in my opinion.

Might be able to get a place in Todmorden… I really enjoy living here.