using ideas form here and a bit of googling i’ve stripped the inner out of a bit of gear cable outer and threaded that through. will see how it lasts. thanks

thanks, i was thinking of something like that or extending the liner for the internal cable routing all the way up through the chain stay

it is a bottom pull still but the direction of the cable has changed so it rubs:

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this the mech i have to save confusion!:

i think that is a bottom swing high clamp fron mech. either way that is what i have

we’ve got one, love it

you can park closer to it and store stuff closer to it inside. you don’t lose all that ceiling space for hanging stuff too.

can’t remember the make, it’s not powered though

thanks RD

bland – i come from the peaks so know most of it, my views on cheeky trails are also well explained in the past on this forum :D

here’s what i do

in my opinion, anything other than colour OS mapping at 1:50,000 or less is useless for a GPS offroad, the screen is to small to display any really relevant info. I use tracklogs software with 1:50,000 OS mapping for whole of UK then a garmin 605 with city navigator europe to give me a line to follow offroad. You’ll rarely need more than one paper map on an offroad ride unless you are a monster mile muncher.

on road i use tracklogs (uk) and mapsource (rest of world) to create/review routes in combination with google earth and the city navigator maps to get me out of trouble and show junctions when on the bike

705 is the same but with a built in (seemingly useless) barometric altimeter and the ability to add a HRM and cadence meter

you need to call scotrail to reserve your bike space, their number is on the webpage, it’s customer services number not tickets and don’t choose the buy tickets option because that just puts you through to natinal rail enquiries who will give you the number you just called for scotrail

you’d be fighting the fire after it had burned itself out there Jamie

the 605 is pretty poor at offroad mapping

save a bit longer and get a garmin 800

whatever you get you’ll need extra mapping to make it useful for navigation. not everybody pays for these maps if you know what i mean…..

I abandoned the UK Topo maps in favour of City Navigator Europe and jsut carry an OS map offroad. it’s great on the road though.

if you use it as delivered with just the base map you will get a line to follow and basic direction indication from gps tracks you download.

you wouldn’t get me 320 ft form the shuttle

no siree, Arthur C Clarke (he invented space you know) told me what will happen if i do that

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell’d you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I’ll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you’re going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won’t argue with you anymore. Open the doors.
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

:lol:

just got peterborough to rogart and from inverness back to peterborough for £150 for two people including bikes but i guess that doesn’t help. the edinburgh to inverness leg was only £10.50 per person 1 way

yup, but you can take your bike!

if it’s national express type coach then you could ask them. not going to be full of skis this time of year

out of bag no

in bag is driver’s discretion IIRC. if it has lockers underneath then it’s again down to the driver.

get the train!

you may like a good bodge andy but in my experience you aren’t capable of producing one :lol:

ok, just got the wife to put my lights on charge and tonight i’m going to actually RIDE my road bike, whatever the weather. I probably won’t ride to a pub though, i’ll have a beer whilst cleaning the bike when i get home.

I will add that although not off the bike through injury long term, my work dictates that for long periods of time i am not home enough to ride and when i am i’m generally too knackered to consider it, especially in the winter

out of stock!

great thanks

waderider – injury is not a soft excuse, i was told to stop by my doctor. As someone who has been managing frequent crippling back pain for over 15 years i’m well aware of when to ignore and when to listen to my pain.

i went walking with my old man a few weeks ago and i WAS walking like an old person that couldn’t walk properly by the end of the three days! I’ve actually been avoiding anything strenuous for a while as a result of damaging my knees on aforementioned trip.

that could be it coleman, anybody actually got one that can confirm?

sefton – we nearly moved to Stirling (Scotlandshire) last year but it didn’t come off. I’m not from down here though, sheffield is home so don’t go calling me no southern softy

my glass is always half empty, it’s just the way i am. mind you isn’t assuming that you ARE going to get a serious illness fairly pessimistic ;-)

near rugby

middle of everywhere, close to nowhere. only option this time of year locally is road riding. can only really ride offroad locally when it’s frozen solid

i’m not in a club. used to enjoy 24 hour events but since they got monstrously overpopulated we’ve stopped doing them. (also it always bloody rains!)

part of the trouble is that most of the people i used to ride with have moved/had kids/got divorced/turned into morons, we have no friends that ride locally and as my working hours are all over the place i would struggle to integrate with a regular roady club.

a lot of it does come down to the fact that at heart i’m a lazy lazy man :-)

you can check that by taking the chain off and testing it ‘dry’. mine exhibits the same symptoms with no chain in it

yeah the tour is a bit of an anomaly but then it took lots of planning which is half the fun! Also have a week in the alps booked in the summer which is a good target

lardy – i certainly do that, road/touring/cx/xc/AM/DH/FR. If it’s got label then i pretty much do it!

Tony – i know i’m going to smile when i actually do it. perhaps a trip to the field of dreams is in order

my ultegra has gone the same way at the smaller end of the cassette, i think the ratchet is knackered. i’ve yet to strip it down but it could be burred on the metal edges or something

i’m not familiar with the NW alps RD, perhaps a guided evening ride?

my family had several trailer tents when i was a youth. Can’t remember the models but one was a straight fold out tent, canvas roof, swing out removable kitchen tailgate. it was fairly compact and the areas under the fold out bed chambers made for loads of storage and doubled as an extra bedroom (there were 5 of us). The second one was a folding camper, different in that it had a pop up solid roof and a lot more room inside as well as a built in kitchen, it was quicker to set up and warmer plus there was a lot less faff to pack it away. folding campers also have the advantage of being able to take a bike rack on top. they tend to be based on bigger more stable trailer chassis as well. i think the second one was a Pennine, the first one was called a trailquest or something similar. They are an excellent solution to slightly more luxurious camping but at the time big family tents were less readily available. personally the trailer + family tent option would be my choice nowadays as it’s far more flexible

@ mrmichaelwright how do you get the altitude thingy on your edge 605?

i think you have to be navigating a course with elevation data. it’s one of the screens available on the course page

funeral was indeed a work of genius but the wife refused to buy suburbs after seeing them live and believing them to be awful on stage. can’t say the album is rubbish, just nowhere near as good a it’s predecessors

bank cancelled my debit card this week as well, no news on why but I have my suspicions. All they would say was part of a large scale fraud risk

got two emails but the voucher only worked once :?

yeah they are out of stock too

thanks

thanks, i’d spotted the old road along side the main road, definitely go for that i think

Merkland does look like a pleasant ride

thanks, it looks like Moine path is the one i need to research, the other looks fine. It’s so easy to circumnavigate that i could just base it on weather. plenty of pics on geograph

between me and the wife – 11 (2 share a pair of wheels though)

the route at the moment:

google maps