the Meirlach pass looks to be mostly tarmac/hardcore from geograph/google earth

moine path is distinct on google earth but looks to be tussocky grass that’s not been well trodden for a while

i’ve got a couple of books about Scottish drovers roads, not checked them yet although the conditions tend to vary season by season so recent local knowledge is where it’s at

carbon road bike

alu crosser

alu mtb x 3

steel mtb

so not really

going to leave the salads for a couple of weeks i think. rocket is a definite

indeed

fettled, gardened, ordered shiny things and worn shorts all day.

now i feel a glass of wine the garden would be appropriate before it gets cold

just fitted my gamut chain device, they recommend a quarter turn past snug if no torque wrench available and that’s a plastic bash guard too

thanks purist – got all impatient so went on ‘tinternet instructions. about 6inches of good veg compost, 3 seed potatoes (chitted) then just enough to cover em up. There’s about 12 – 14 inches of room left in the lining bag to top up as they grow

i got a block of wood the witdth of a front hub and drilled a 20mm (substitute for 15) hole in it

I then cut down the centre of the whole, screwed each half to the van floor and used the straps from a bike rack (the pull to lock type) over the stem and down to the floor to hold the bike vertical. worked right good

Carol Klein’s ‘Grow your own veg’ is excellent for the edible side of it and magazines are pretty good for picking up general stuff

it’s spring time folks

the lawn has just had it’s first trim of the season, lots of packets of seeds are starting to appear and the dug in manure has been doing it’s lovely thing all winter.

what’ll it be this year?

We’ve just sowed onion, spring onion and a few other things outdoors and have started our windowsill nursery for the more tender plants.

We were cropping parsnip until last week and have had great spinach since january (outdoors!), garlic that went in last year is doing well and we hope to have yummy garlic shoots soon

We’ve ripped out all the plants we’ve lost too the last two winters and are having a planting marathon in the back (or flower) garden. We even got our local garden centre to do a free planting plan for us.

Any advice on potato barrels, ours is sitting empty at the moment although we have the seed potatoes to go in, what compost? how deep? how many to put in?

:D

what utter piffle

he seems to base his argument on the books of a man who’s bio includes such gems as ‘career coach’ and ‘Many of his writings have been published on monster.com, yahoo.com, aol.com, msn.com’ yet leaves his academic credentials to a single line stating simply that he has a PhD

[EDIT] a quick google throws up his PhD as being in the ‘Evaluation of education’

the SYHA on Leith Walk is good, has bike lockup although not sure about car parking.

about £60 for a double room IIRC

Kilchoman Winter Release 2010 is where it’s at for smoky goodness at the moment people.

tried it at the port charlotte hotel and bought a bottle the next day, i’ve been following the development of kilchoman after visiting the distillery shortly after it opened and have a few of their early releases as collector’s items

good things are to come i reckon.

interesting to see another on line retailer’s handling of a similar (although not payment detail related) situation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12819330

djglover

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we use an MSR hubba hubba HP

they do a green version now i believe, our yellow one is a major insect trap. I rate it very highly, it’s got the height that some don’t have which makes getting dressed/cooking etc far more comfortable. It’s not the most stable in wind but it’s a willing sacrifice i’ve made for weight/pack size

i was waiting for a nice big fat cheque

then i got the cheque

now i have spent contents of said big fat cheque on such mundane things as mortgage, CC bills and food

sometimes the wait is not worth the result

on the plus side the CC bill was paying for my new bouncy bike that i couldn’t afford to ride cos i was waiting for the cheque

which i’ve now spent

ho hum…….

YES PLEASE

probably cost the MOD £480 pounds in the first place

as far as i’m concerned you can abandon the solar part

we topped ours up in cafes etc

garmin actually sell the power monkey as an added battery pack for the Edge 800.

they quote the reserve battery as giving 20 hours extra use on the 800, i guess it’d be about the same on the 250 as the battery life was always pretty poor anyway

work

not had much success with this to be hones, neither have friends

we have a Power Monkey[/url] which has not really been much use, the most useful bit is the AC adapter it comes with that has tips to charge just about everything.

Even in the south of france the solar panel didn’t get much juice into the reserve battery

i’ve also tried a USB charger that takes AA batteries

all this did is make my garmin crash, lots

so it seems

not had mine yet though

to be honest i’d like them to take the HUGE PR bonus and send out an email to me offering a 100% discount for life

worth a try……. :D

well spotted, i doubt they have trawled through all the forums though

to be honest i’d like them to take the HUGE PR hit and send out an email to all account holders. not everyone reads the forums or checks the cc bills regularly.

the wife’s had a ride ruined by a seized valve, couldn’t fit a tube as the valve was stuck, long walk ensued.

we carry C02 inflater and a weldite kit as well as a spare tube.

hopefully everyone who has had this problem will actually tell crc about it.

their 0.1% figure may be based on direct contact, not us lot bitching on here.

email sent

lets see what they come up with

there’s absolutely no reason to assume that this is purely an IT related issue……

looking at similar products they seem to be about 6mA per LED so that would make each strip about 290mA.

6 strips gives you 1.74A

4 hours means you’ll need about 7 Amp Hours

I think]’ that standard AA batteries have a capacity of about 2000mAH

my problem is now working out a multi cell calculations. i think that at 12V and 8 cells the capacity will still be 2000mAH only at 12V not 1.5V

in this case i’d expect the batteries to last about an hour and three quarters

I may be very very wrong though and the LEDs may turn off before full discharge as the voltage will drop

without knowing the rating of the strips then it’s difficult to know.

those cheap Chinese LEDs don’t tent to be terribly efficient.

I’d start with 8 (non rechargeable) high capacity AAs and see how you get on.

If you use rechargeables you’ll need 9 cells i think as they are lower voltage

yes

thanks

i’m pretty sure they’ll sort me out if they see it as a fault, the importers were good when we broke the plastic pole joiner, they sent another one free.

I’m sure you’d have noticed if it did the same as ours, damp knees get annoying pretty quickly!

on a more serious note, i think it really depends on what you are doing. It does alter the physical balance of the bike, perhaps you are comfortable doing this. personally at the sorts of speed you can get up to on a loaded tourer in ‘the hills’ i’d be uncomfortable if i didn’t trust that my bike would react exactly as i’d expect it too. my tourer is a probably sensitive to this as it has carbon forks, i’m sure the wife’s tank Ultra Galaxy would just shrug it off

i said fight not come on to me 8O

anotherdeadhero

we may have to agree to disagree.

you can’t say that on here!

fight damn you!

i disagree, it does unbalance the bike.

do you think there is some kind of magic force that will counter the fact that you have altered the centre of gravity of the bike?

the only thing that can counter this is your body, causing a change of position.

put in a few hundred or thousand miles with that slight change of position and you are going to notice it, it’d be like riding with your bars off axis.

i find it very odd riding with one pannier if i’m carrying any more than a few clothes.

I also agree with TonyD, if i was putting the mile in i’d want the bike well balanced

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Double-Post – oops!

double drop?

it’s ramifications for the nuclear power industry as a whole, worldwide, are likely to be felt for a long time.

Nuclear power is one of the few viable alternatives to fossil fuel in my book and this will set the cause back a long way. The americans are already getting jittery.