My wife, who’s a Steve Harley fan, insists she wants ” come up and see me” at her funeral. I’ve agreed.

You could always go on the Dorset Grit and Gravel Facebook page for gazillion routes mainly Purbeck orientated.

n0b0dy0ftheg0at
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Talk he might not make the stage start tomorrow, after that eye incident!

I bet he’ll try!

After a superb days racing, a landmark win and great displays of sportsmanship, I didn’t expect this as a headline.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/girmay-taken-to-hospital-after-capturing-historic-victory-at-the-giro-ditalia/

Laurie Lee’s ‘Cider House Rules’ also cones to mind.

Did you mean Cider with Rosie?

Probably “As I walked out one mid Summers Morning” might fit better.

Or go Hemingway – “For whom the Bell Tolls” or “Farewell to Arms”?

These Pro’s are in different world to us. 200 mile recovery ride!

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pidcock-rides-from-germany-to-czech-republic-for-next-mtb-world-cup-round/

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sharkbait
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Nothing to add really, other than his uncle is friend of mine and he’s a very good rider, a mean tennis player and was in the Great Britain Olympic hockey squad.

Some people just make you feel inadequate!

A walk around Nyhavn in the centre is not to bad.

Stem cell bag from Decathlon eat a very reasonable £4.99. Fits everything you have mentioned and more. If your Lael Wilcox hard you can put a well salted bag of chips in there!

Go onto Dorset Grit and Gravel on Facebook and their route files have dozens of routes out that way. Don’t forget to go East and West. Some good routes out Swyre way. Was there only today!

Worth looking at Merlin Cycles?

https://www.merlincycles.com/mountain-bike-shoes-75361/

Wizard works bar bag and a decathlon stem cell (£4!)

These are on the bike at all times. Tools are kept in a tool roll.

jam-bo
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Dont think I’ve ever seen a met office Red in Englandshire before

there was one 3rd jan 2018, the mini beast from the east. obviously I went for a ride…

The worst weather conditions I’ve ever encountered in Devon were with unnamed storms. One windy day saw my wife’s friends car door blown off when she opened the door at the valley of the rocks. Then the two of them had to part crawl along the floor to get to the cafe! It is tougher up in North Devon though :-)

If you were coming up with a vehicle – basing somewhere on the A9 would give a lot of options over 5 days.

I would be driving up although trying to limit any car trips if possible.

Thanks for the replies.

GRX shifters 1X11 with XT Di2 drive chain here. Worked a treat for the past year.

To those in the know. If I were to come up to Scotland for a week to try and fit in five day rides to see the best gravel riding there is, where would you suggest you base yourself?
TIA

Galibier? Never owned one but rode with two chaps yesterday who were full of praise.

Very pleased to have 6 Greenfinches during the count. Not bad for a red listed bird. 20 species seen in the one hour. It was bird central for a while!

Mine continues to work fine as long as I say “play BBC Radio 4 or 6”

But miraculously the Tories have taken Labour’s soggy carrot and done everything they can to turn it into a stake to the heart.

Loving that metaphor!

Exactly my own decision. Our Christmas ride followed by a meal together has been slightly downgraded to ride then coffee, nibbles, cake in our garden. My rationale being I want to minimise any chance of picking up the virus before meeting our daughters before Christmas and the consequences of isolating. The family get together being proceded by lateral flows by all the day before meeting again to minimise, although clearly not negating, the risk.

Peripheral perfusion does reduce as you get older although bizarrely now in my dotage I find its not a problem any more. Compression clothing works by increasing blood flow around the tissues you are wearing the clothing. Thats why it is successful as a recovery aid, so I can see the logic in your original thought. They rarely provide any thermal properties though so maybe need to be used in conjunction with something?
Many of the ideas given above should work but the general principles are:

don’t restrict circulation – wear shoes slightly larger/loosen laces/don’t wear overshoes.

maintain thermal barrier – wooden socks/wind barrier/proper winter shoes

start off warm – put shoes and socks in warm place (I use the radiator) before you put them on.

keep the rest of your body warm – layering the usual suspects.

According to the telly this morning (so it must be true) after 4.7 years of use an artificial tree is better for the environment (?)

Tree rental has the highest carbon credentials (again according to the telly)

Cougar
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I was mightily astonished with the magnifier in that Wera set until I realised that “1 x 9500 magnifier” was just the part number.

It’s a magNETISER dear boy! Rather useful I thought.

Quite a stunning frame, but I’m a bit of a Turner fanboy so I would say that…

@rexated – a slight under statement I think :-)

New Zappa documentary on BBC4 tomorrow (Friday 22nd Oct).

Thats going to be some weird tv! I wonder if Moonunit and Dweezil will make an appearance?

Rode in Wareham Forest (Dorset) this morning. Started off in a down jacket, ended up in just a T-shirt! Proper warm still.

Looks like he’s been sacked before he started, a new low even for him (job offer withdrawn, a glimmer of common sense).

I wonder if they’ve only just read the initial Pandemic report?

52cm frame size and it fits a 6ft owner fine? Do those Giant frames come up large?

I did in 3 days in July on my gravel bike. I put the 2″ Maxxis on though, partly for multi day comfort and also for protection from flint strikes.You certainly don’t need the big tyres for the difficulty of the trails. The Ridgeway was quite good, much of the rest not so.

Just picking up up on Kuco’s point ^^^ about disparity between men and women prize money – women’s winner £1,300; mens £26,000; that’s a 20 fold difference and it stinks

That really is disgraceful!

He’s back!!

Its a funny thing cramp. Despite being able to do tricky things like sequencing the human genome, medical science actually doesn’t know the cause of cramp. We know what is happening, inappropriate signalling from nerve endings into the muscles, but not why. Dehydration and electrolyte imbalance are generally not thought to be the problem.
Pickle juice is very popular in the US and there was some speculation that the acidity interrupted the chemical messengers from the nerve ends to the muscles but that now seems unlikely.
I think the most popular theory at present is that you are pushing the muscles harder than normal and they are going a bit haywire. The answer is to train more!
Given that no one knows whats going on you could just about try anything and see whats best for you. If your pain is largely down one side i would go to your GP just in case its not something like sciatica.
So gin and tonic followed by pickle juice is my suggestion!

I hope this gets the coverage and kudos it deserves. I guess the Rapha film that will be out soon will be brilliant viewing again.

Gout is caused by the bodies failure to excrete uric acid appropriately and this builds up in joints in crystals causing the pain. Staying hydrated allows the kidney to continue to work but doesn’t always help as its not addressing the underlying cause. Allopurinol (beloved by Pedro Delgardo as it comes out on a chromatography scan just where steroids do) lowers the renal threshold of uric acid and you excrete a lot more thus preventing build up.
Take the pill!!

Interesting factoid: Dalmation dogs have white poo because they lack the enzyme Uricase and so their poo contains a large amount of the white crystal uric acid.

Got back yesterday. Winch to Old Sarum a bit mucky and overgrown (lots of crappy field edge riding straight from the 80’s) Ridgeway fine, South of Reading utter shite, the rest ok.

Another Leatherman Squirt user. Mine even has my name on it!

Very impressed with Caleb Ewans ability to hang in on both climbs, but WvA seems to be able to sprint as fast as specialists. Possibly left it a bit late.

Will get a quick ride in first in the morning and then watch later. MSR is the only classic that I’m only interested in for the last hour or so. Unless you like the lovely Italian scenery of course

I ran a 27.5 Thunderburt front and back last summer on my gravel bike. I ride a lot on the Purbeck in Dorset and finally took them off as I found they where slipping badly on gravel/rocky climbs and had very little grip on the downhills. They where fine in loamy/fine gravel tracks in Wareham and New Forest but then neither are that technical.
They sure are quick though.
Now using Rene Herse Hurricane Ridge (endurance casing) which are just as quick and grip much better on rougher ground. The RH tyres are expensive though.