The track from the reservoir up Carnedd y Filiast, the summit to the east, goes well, though.

Did it once, N-S. Never been back…. initially ok but then crossed my personal hike-a-bike threshold.

Creating a new niche – bike-foraging! Think of the marketing potential…

Might be an idea to first address the increasing number of **** who think it’s acceptable to vape on public transport or in enclosed spaces. The way things are going I’m either going to get stabbed or end up on an assault charge over this. D!ckhead facilitators.

Hong Kong Phooey is very dodgy if you watch it now.

I like big Dales xc days but, for me, Nidderdale has always been somewhere I ride through to get somewhere else, not a destination in its own right.

I’d be putting more emphasis on continually moving and wiggling everything you can either side of the cast so you’re ahead of the game with the physio when it comes off.

I’ve walked out round that coastline in winter and wouldn’t take a bike that way. I’d rather do the Sandwood Bay option and stash the bike for a quick there’n’back as above.

What Ambrose said. There’s a vague path but if you lose it (easy to do at the SW end) you’re in for major bike hauling. The Plynlimon ridge, though, is surprisingly rideable if you access it via Hafren forestry tracks from the east.

Nine speed MTB mechs are supposed to work with 10 speed road levers, never tried it myself. Also seem to recall the exact flavour of tiagra might be an issue. Got an old xt mech in the box?

I once woke up for my milk round when I was 15, having slept on both my arms. They wouldn’t work and my Mum came into my bedroom to find me flapping with my hands, whilst getting increasingly panicked, to turn my alarm off

Did she buy it?

Unfortunately that would require me to go to a cinema on a Saturday. I would rather spend that time sticking knitting needles through my bollox.

I once had some issues, can’t remember the serial numbers. I just filed the tabs til they fit.

Documentary about Scottish kids:

Better weather than forecast over the Long Causeway yesterday morning. Glad I’m not up there today…

Torridon can be great at any time of year, but if the weather turns bad it’s easy enough heading south and east to Cairngorm which is generally more sheltered.

Partial solution:

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You used to be able to get heavy duty zip ties with the slot for the hose/cable incorporated – like a more flexible variant of the clamps above. I’ve had mixed results with stick-on guides.

Film/TV prop company?

The mistake you made was: being on a bus, the bottom of the public transport pecking order (speaking as someone who went carless 20 months ago). Were they also vaping and playing tik tok videos out loud? There’s your answer.

Also, what others have said about people being detached from the natural environment. If someone can’t think to check the weather and sunset times before, say, going up Helvellyn, are they going to do it when they walk to the shops?

And this is why every email from Eon mentioning smart meters goes straight in the bin.

One for me, one for the freezer.

Going cheap on SJS at the moment.

That’s all sounding positive. Load weight wouldn’t be an issue, I’m looking at smaller setups like this:

Mounting Mini Panniers and Cargo Cages on a Quick-Rack

I was playing around with similar lash-ups on my old OMM rack back in the spring but wouldn’t be able to use that old QR135 rack on my mountain bike.

I’ve got size 14 feet so heel clearance has always been an issue on bikes with shorter chainstays.

I used seamgrip successfully BITD on a Thermarest SIM after my mum’s cat used it as a scratching post. More modern Thermarest SIMs have less foam/more cut-outs to save weight/bulk – which is why they’re more prone to delamination than old skool ones, and may also affect how effective splurging glue into pinholes is, too.

I’ve been running Mavic hookless rims for the last 20 months with no issues – with tubes! I actually had my first puncture in two years on Tuesday but it was nothing to do with the rim. 30mm width, 2.35″ tyres.

The litter pixies have emerged from their ratholes to visit my adopted woodland with the recent good weather, I found yesterday.

A mobile barricade that you can loot before you overturn it and set it on fire! Two for one.

Social media is the short term fix, the poverty and lack of opportunity are the longer term solution. Will take two generations. Invest in education, housing, social support now, save on crime, benefits, social services in 20-30 years time.

Someone more cynical might suggest that compulsory contraception and incentivised sterilisation attached to benefits payouts would sort that problem out a lot quicker.

I’m looking at rear rack options that swap easily between frames with different axle/dropout standards, with/without mounting points, and finding it hard to see past the Aeroe for this. The bags are a bit rich for my tastes, though, although they’re not rinsing the consumer the way Tailfin are.

There has to be a better way of dealing with them before they’re able to set fire to a building?

Water cannon.

What would the implications of overstaying be on travel insurance?

Depends how joined up it is, I guess. So you now have to have residence in order to get a job here, for instance, and I’ve certainly been to countries where checking into a hotel with invalid paperwork would have the police knocking on your door in half an hour. The technology to implement it certainly exists, it just needs the will/desire to do so.

*90 days, btw, not sure where I got six months from.

What would happen when/if accommodation checked your passports past the six month entry date?

No advice, it just gives me an excuse to post a picture of my sister’s neighbour’s dog.

I often do it that way myself – might do next week, in fact, as part of a bigger loop linking in to the Dales at both ends.

A Tuesday afternoon run up the Great Dun Fell road set me up for a high bivi and a big morning yesterday prior to the afternoon train home.

Last September.