Those Bombtracks looks absolutely brill. Any of the chaps that have one tried 700c wheels?

Cheers,

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Thanks everyone for the useful replies, tips and innovations!

I’m glad I am not the only one who has had these issues. Just a bit frustrating on a set of new brakes, but at least it gives me the chance to really understand what they need early doors.

I’ll try some of the above strategies and will make a contribution to what works (hopefully) on future threads.

Have a great weekend and happy shredding!

Well, they are brand new, they were from the CRC sale a  little while ago. Have been sticky from the start and are about 5 rides in, I thought they might just free up after a few rides, but clearly there is something going on with them. Don’t know whether to just send them back or not.

Thanks for the replies. Interesting that one you needs to do this and one doesn’t ever! Ill have a look at the silicone grease.

Great photos the generalist, thanks for sharing!
Which are those bits on the route – can you recall?

Still looking for routes for a soggy wet Lakes weekend, will prabably do your one though.

Cheers,
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Just mapped out the route above from the Generealist, nice one. Always had an eye on the ridgy hills between garburn and high street, may very well do that.

Random note, I know that you can skip accross harter fell to cut out the drop into Haweswater. BUT i kind of like the hike a bike up to Nan Bield, makes it feel like a proper ride.

Anyone come down the Old Corpse Road Bridleway?

Thank you.
Weather actually looks ok going into the weekend.

I was there last night, trails running better than they have for ages. Go while they still are like that!

I was also suprised to see some ‘off piste’ lines still being ridden by a couple of people. I can’t help but feel the FE will try to shut the whole place down if that carries on, given the already fine balance that has been struck. The main trails are decent enough!

I’m 36, I only discovered surfing last year, I’m from Lancashire so it’s not exactly the cultural epicentre of sea sports.

I now live in Bristol and popping down to Saunton Sands for a day trip once every couple of months has been awesome.
I get the adrenaline of catching a (small) wave totally.

I don’t compare it it MTB though, where I love the exploration side and the outdoors feeling more. Don’t get me wrong I also enjoy the buzz of a fast bit of techy singletrack. But to me it’s different.

Jees, that is a tear jerker, what a lovely advert!

BS3 Resident here. Will keep my eyes peeled as always.

So much bike theft in our city, it’s really really scary.

Another Warriors fan here.

Huge respect for Rob Burrow, absolute legend of the game, every time I saw him play I just couldn’t believe how good he was, how brave he was, how much he must have put in to get to be the player he was.

Sinfield is an absolute class act, both on the field and off it.

Not sure if the mechanisms that cause MND can be triggered by head injuries, or whether this is simply coincidence. RL players are theoretically, much less inclined to receive head injuries (repeated) other than the odd high shot here and there – maybe not so much at grass roots level though.

@Stanley
Your are completely right about an Ortho ward!
“Here’s your raised toilet seat, see you later”. I quickly realised that this was not for me, so went down the physical rehab route.

Brain injury rehab is incredibly rewarding, but so must working in Forensic mental health. I did a placement during my training at a Medium Secure unit near Preston. It was a great placement and an experience I will never forget, kind of scary though!

Mature students really do make great OT’s and seem to advance into more interesting/challenging roles quicker too.

We DO need more male OT’s though, I can’t be certain, but I am sure that being male in a female dominated world has opened up some doors for me that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

@stanley
Just for a bit of balance to your comments re: mental health setting and physical setting.

I work in brain injury rehab, obviously a physical setting, and I’ve been paid to do so many cool community based interventions with my clients, including, hiking, biking, fishing, boating, trips to cinemas, shopping, band practice studios, eating out.
All in the name of upper limb, cognitive and fatigue rehab!

To be fair we do get thank you cards on occasion 😉

Re: OT males. Yep, we need more!!!
I do enjoy working with women though, no egos, no dick swinging (like physios…)
Not sure I could ever work in a blokey bloke type environment now.

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I already had a degree, philosophy, so completely unrelated to health and social, but managed to get on a 2 year Masters course, which was also ‘free’ at the time. I was lucky that I could do it full time.
I’m not sure what options are around at the moment in relation to degrees or apprenticeships. Such a shame that bursaries are no longer available for these courses.

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Just to be really clear, I would not be concerned at all about not being hands on as an OT.
For example, I worked full time in a brain injury rehab unit recently and spent at least 5 out of every 7.5 hrs being hands on 5 days a week.

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Hi,
Another OT here! 36 been qualified for 12 years. I’m a brain injury specialist. Completely hands on, upper limb rehab, cognitive rehab amongst loads of other things. Although lots of my work is now at team lead level, so a little less face to face contact. But anything in the physical domain (rather than mental health, this isn’t my bag) is fully hands on.
I work privately and have my own small business, I also work for a robotics company
who have developed neuro rehab tech and I support them with training implementation, in theory globally, but pandemic etc. So being an OT can give you a lot of amazing opportunities, if you are that way inclined.
I absolutely love my job and feel completely privileged to do so, but it’s taken a while to get to a point where I feel completely respected, this is a purely personal thing though. As the poster above mentioned we are definitely behind the pecking order in an acute setting, although, I would of course argue that we are the most important of all the AHP professions.
Also, the green trousers are indeed, horrid, but there you go.
I’m Bristol based. But feel free to drop me a PM as I’d be more than happy to talk through anything.

Going to see Saint Maud this Friday at the wonderful Watershed in Bristol. After Mark Kermode’s call to arms last week on the Film Review pod, more than happy to support my local cinema with £20 (totally understand that others are not so keen though).

Also went to my local Vue a couple of weeks ago to watch Pulp Fiction with a friend and I and about 4 other people. It did feel that this was the death of cinema. 6 people watching a 26 year old film doesn’t seem sustainable really.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing Saint Maud this week.

Not sure if these have been mentioned, but while sausages are in the agenda, Sainsbury’s Shroomdogs, the Cumberland ones are absolutely fupping amazing. Decent texture, loads of those Cumberland spices (black pepper, nutmeg etc..) mmmmmm delish, especially in a roll with friend onions, bit of cheese (dairy I’m afraid) maybe even some ketchup and American mustard… Oh yeah.

FOD is running fantastically at the moment, I don’t know Cannock very well to be honest, but there is a ton of variety at FOD.

Good point, expect it to be heaving, but easily rideable to from other places around the forest.

I am absolutely loving my Nukeproof Nirvana jacket. I’ve been wearing it all summer and as a hot runner my self, I have found it to be really really breathable. There is a great review on this site of it. I bought it for £120 in the sales, but given its performance I will happily pay full price for another one.
It’s packs down really small as well and has kept me completely dry in some shitty north wales rain last month.

I’m in the same position as a fellow Bristol rider. Best bet will be FoD as the South Wales trail centres (other than Afan I think) are all subject to restrictions.

Cheers BigR, appreciate the input

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Afternoon,

Planning to use an Arkose D for my LEJOG trip later on this year and feel it might fit the bill pretty well.

Anyone have any thoughts? I am looking at an XL being 6’2” – does this sound about right? Is the sizing generally spot on? Had a look through the thread for an answer already, but couldn’t find one.
Any help appreciated.

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‘ey up everyone.

Does anybody here use their Arkose as long distance tourer? I am sure they do!

Considering a D1 or D2 for my LEJOG trip later on this year and feel it might fit the bill pretty well.

Anyone have any thoughts? I am looking at an XL being 6’2”.

Cheers,
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I usually ride the Gap in the Brecons in Spring, this week would have been absolutely perfect for it. So likely I will get out there when its possible.

I’m an Occupational Therapist – Community Neuro Rehab. Still working with our normal caseload last week – this is likely to change next week to only urgent visits. As such I am requesting that I can support my local big acute hospital out on the wards supporting discharges and trying to clear beds. I’ve worked with them before, and my friends there are asking for a show of hands for some additional numbers. Weirdly, I am looking forward to getting back into the acute setting and getting stuck in where I can during this crisis.

Adam

I was up there this morning, quick lap of Cafall, running well, bit of mud in some places, but nothing serious. One section still closed towards the end, little descent between a couple of fireroads, which means you miss a minute or two of single-track descent with a fireroad instead so not too bad really.
But today it was so windy on the West side of the hill it was really hard to gain momentum and keep it going. Should be better tomorrow.
Sad to see all the trees gone, different feel about it now. Still good though!

BC Camplight at Thekla, Bristol last night. Absolutely brilliant. Good man, great show.
Can’t recall the last time I saw an artist pretty much drink a full bottle of wine on stage either. He was enjoying himself!!

Excellent PSA, even though I didn’t go for the Ramin, which does looks great, I picked up another bargain frameset to build my wife a commuter/tourer. Nice one!

Also, @bez, ygm re: longitude frameset.

@ Malvern Rider
“That carerra Subway is not a bad shout,”
“You can lead a horse to water… ”

I was being polite! Don’t worry i will be exploring ALL options including those lovely looking Longitudes.

There’s quite a few suggestions to unpick here, so I will spend my evening working through them now I am back from work. This is exactly the sort of project that winter is designed for :-)

That Touchroad that @dove1 linked to looks pretty sweet though.

Thanks for all the suggestions!!

Adam

Thanks for the replies and tips so far!

Re: Tandem i socialised the idea of this to be met with a categorical, No! This is a case of too much too soon i think…

That carerra Subway is not a bad shout, that’s worth further investigation. I think that some cheap/older discounted “slow hybrid” as someone above mentioned is probably the way that i will go for this… Does this seem appropriate?

Re: being comfortable on our current bikes – I think my Mrs is, with some adjustments to the cockpit i think hers would be a decent little tourer, but mine, absolutely not!

I will start to scour eBay and the websites for deals etc.

Thanks Ton, good route that is.

@tomaso – any specifics around Newby Bridge, based in south lakes so not far from there.

Cheers

@ton any chance you have a gpx of that route? Had a look at the map and there are loads of options along the way.

Cheers

We did garburn from staveley and so approached it via a maze of bridleway, but you could indeed get there from Ings. Head north to Grassgarth, then bridleway north, then west along a new bridleway past High Borans. To the Dubh Road. Then follow it north then curve eastish as it gradually gets harder.

Just had a look at the map, that makes sense as the route round then dropping into kentmere. Cheers.

@thegeneralist
Helvellyn almost zero hike a bike from the north? Not the last bit right??
Keppel cove is indeed the zigzags, not a chance I could (i’ve tried) get up there without pushing. Maybe on an e-bike.

Also, Garburn pass from Ings, which way from Ings round to the west then east over the pass down to Kentmere?

Thanks Tom B.
Did the first route you mentioned last year, but it would be such a shame to get all the way up there and not crack on to Helvellyn.

Maybe if he sees the summit of Helvellyn, then….

Valid excuses to not go to the Lakes:
1. I am no longer alive.

That is all.

Absolutely agree!!

Amazing, thanks for all the suggestions so far, I’ll have to dig the map out later over a beer and browse the routes put forward

Certainly some good food for thought though. My friend definitely has no excuses not to come to the Lakes with me now!

@lowey, looks like an awesome ride that, nice one!

@craig5 yeah I’ve done loads myself around Grizdale bridleways, no complaints and I’ll probably show my friend around there, but also looking for other options.

Cheers!