2hr battery is rubbish… that’s my round trip!

and presumably you don’t have any electricity at work to recharge it during the day?

My round trip is 2hrs 45

so come on then OP, what type of riding are you going to be doing?

I don’t use a commuting camera as such i.e. I don’t use it every day but I do use a GoPro session 4 to record the odd one or two commutes to edit for fun purposes[/url] rather than as a recourse in case something happens.

Positives

small, light, cheap*, robust, reliable (3+ years so far), ease of mounting, multiplicity of mounts, one touch on/off, quality of footage, multiple recording modes, manage app via button on camera or via phone, takes up to 128gb card, the benchmark sports cam all others measure themselves against

*mine was £150 new which is relatively cheap but now that the session 5 is out you can pick them up much cheaper

Negatives

Doesn’t overwrite existing footage but a 128gb card should record plenty before you need to clear it off. Okay so the battery ‘only’ lasts circa 2 hours but how long is your commute? Assuming you are riding into and out of work then just recharge it whilst at work. errr..that’s about it. What’s not to like?

I have a Fly6, original kickstarter model. it’s rubbish. Doesn’t record properly anymore and the footage was like looking through goggles underwater. Max 32gb card on my model too.

My Canyon is 7kg’s. Jus’ sayin’

I haven’t weighed them but given that one is a pure road bike and the other is a gravel bike the pure road bike is going to weigh less. Do you need a gravel bike?

Are you using it for weekend fun rides or everyday commuting where you need mudguards and possibly panniers?

just found mine upstairs, i have this one

yup, I’ve still got an Ace of Aces set somewhere…

in fact using a little local knowledge you can get across to oaks park and up to woodmansterne and then chipstead but i would stick with Banstead downs for the time being

if it’s been dry then there are loads of straightforward trails on Banstead Downs/Banstead Common. Park near the prison and just explore.

it is chalky underneath hence my comment about the dry but as long as it hasn’t been tipping it down then it’s fine.

I used to ride there with Zippykona back in the day…

I think I post this on every thread about Lanzarote. Contact Gavin at Evolution bikes and tell him Richard from DoMTB sent you.

I think I saw your female colleague on Instagram earlier

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqVehkegh20/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1tzy9pumfyyzb

from @ipostbeanseveyday

Does it have to be entirely in France?

Back in May this year i rode to the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium and back over a few days. Okay so it’s not particularly hilly but it was somewhere I always wanted to visit and so there was a point to the ride.

Or you could ride to Flanders and do a tour of the local Muur’s, stop in Bruges, drink Belgian beer and eat frites with mayonnaise before heading back.

Or for le grand boucle you ride from Le Havre, north through Normandy, across into Belgium and then follow the North Sea route island hopping, using ferries, causeways and dykes to the Hook of Holland. take an overnight ferry back to Harwich and then head back through Essex, skirt east around London and back home to Portsmouth.

I did it from Epsom, Surrey -> Dover -> Dunkirk -> Hook of Holland -> Harwich -> Surrey and have a route you can base it on if you like . Here’s a few edited highlights if you are interested.

yes, deffo take bikes on the Tilbury ferry. I did it err.. three years ago during a ‘lap of the M25’.

Statistically most accidents happen in the home. Staying at home you are more likely to be involved in a freak iron/ironing board accident (oh the irony) than you are out on the bike

@OP, it depends on what you mean by ‘Morzine’.

I’ve been multiple times and love it although always looking for somewhere else to go. I get all the way around the lift system though and head off to the places mentioned above including Chatel, Mossettes,Swiss National DH course and the other side of that mountain etc.i.e. basically the whole of the PDS lift system.

However I do often bump into riders that only ride a single resort. For example July this year we bumped into some northern lads who were staying in Les Gets and that was literally all they had ridden the whole week. They were trying to find this mystical other place called Chatel so we guided them over there and pointed out the other places they could access but this was their last day’s riding so they had missed 80% of the available riding.

My current favourite is Heartless B*stards – Only for You.

video is a bit rubbish but a great song

just saw the clear singletrack cookies bit above and clicked link and cleared at foot of page.

nope, still getting WVYP.

Bye

not on my iPadt but yes on my work desktop,

I open the forum page “WVYP’, click okay,

I see a topic that looks interesting ‘WVYP, click okay

Oh, it’s actually a boring topic, back button to forum ‘WVYP

Close window and look at another site instead.

Good, there’s an interesting thread on Twitter in response to the outrage & change of law proposal last year when one fixie guy killed one pedestrian.

It basically says yeah, where is your outrage about this…

..and he tweets every time a driver is prosecuted or not for assaults on cyclists and details the often petty charges.

My ex-boss is a Canadian called Paul Kay.

He works in London but has worked in many cities.

In the first Jason Bourne film when Matt Damon is rifling through the security deposit box there is a Canadian passport with the name Paul Kay on it.

My boss told his kids that he is a spy and that is why they have to keep on moving around.

They are still unsure whether to believe him.

He is actually in IT middle management although as someone on here would no doubt point out “that’s what he wants you to think”. The perfect cover, nerd-central.

The Asda promise “85% of people in our store will be uglier than you”.

Kids are like farts; you only ever like your own.

yup, get a POA* although if as you say the FiL is not fully there this may prove difficult and may be too late.

* you actually need two, one for health and welfare and another for property and financial affairs

https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney

open plan office? Could you not just move desks?

Watch Premium Rush for a totally (un)realistic view of what it will be like

Where is that worst films ev-ah thread again?

One of my best mates is a director/part owner of a courier company.

He tells me that the cycle couriers work very hard for not a lot of money.

Depends what your driver is really (no pun intended)

I hooked up with a woman in her 50’s on Tinder.

She was really very fit for her age and we got on well. We ended up back at her place and after a bit of a fumble she asked me if I fancied some mother/daughter action. Well, did I? Yes of course I did (which man doesn’t want the opportunity to disappoint two women at the same time).

She got up, went to the foot of her stairs and shouted “Motherrrrrrrr!!!!!”

You are on a desert island with three natives…One always lies, one always tells the truth, one tells lies and truth as he sees fit.  They can only answer “ya” and “da” but you don’t know which is “yes” and which is “no”.

The question is… Why didn’t you go to Center Parcs like last year?

As a Chelsea fan since 1969 and a long-term season ticket holder I can’t help but have a little bit of love for him.

I thought the post-match interview with Geoff Shreeves was a touch of the old Jose. He had a bit of the devil in him and was using his classic misdirection trying to make a 0-3 home defeat sound like a good thing, he came across reasonably well.

It was only when he went to the press conference that he seemed to lose it.

Having said that I can’t pretend that I’m not also quite enjoying watching the meltdown.

That’s an assault on my senses.I can’t imagine it’s Pact with features.

I can think of 47 reasons why i don’t like it.

Anyone wanting one of those would look like a right guerrilla.

The only thing i remember from my latin classes (1976 to 1978) aside from a little bit of declension is a silly phrase we made up “Est traho homine” which loosely translates as “it’s a drag, man”

can’t you just keep the bikes in the house rather than the garage until the builders have finished?

GoPro session is closer to £120 now.

This is a good read by a great writer that deals with a similar situation: Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen

“no De Bruyne”

did you watch the match?  He came on as a sub

Re the rude names eleven I’m sure from the days when my boys used to collect footie stickers (mid-90’s) there was a player called Bernd Aas playing for a Premiership side but my Google-fu is weak today and I can’t confirm that.

As we are talking history I was in a discussion the other day about childhood heroes. I said that as a boy I liked George Best.

No, wait that’s wrong…I liked Zippy Best

a lot of my extended family work or worked in Broadmoor (prison for the criminally insane that housed amongst others the yorkshire ripper).

My uncle Jim (RIP) was an ex-chippy turned warden and taught the prisoners woodwork. At family parties he never, ever, ever stood anywhere other than with his back to the wall.

what he said,

first or second week of july

stay in Morzine, it’s nicer than Les Gets IMO

don’t limit yourself to Les Gets. you can travel to Morzine, Chatel, Les Lindarets, Morgins etc all via the interlinked porte de soleil lift system

I’m also just re-reading ‘Nam which gives first hand accounts of the Vietnam war.

Apparently as one 19 year old approached Nam for the first time on a commercial airliner circa 1968 the pilot announced “welcome to Vietnam, the outside temperature is 98 degrees and ground fire is light to moderate’.

I remember this in the 1970’s.

I’ve also flown into Gibraltar.

Because of the political situation the plane needs to make a weird approach and then come in really steeply. Gib also has a very short runway so the brakes get yanked on very quickly and very hard.

A safe landing there always gets a round of applause.

My workmate did a similar trip and the plane was carrying too much speed as it hit the runway and had to pull up again or go off the end of the runway.

it circled and approached again and the same thing happened, too fast and then pull up again.

It was circling for a third attempt and my mate was pretty nervous by this stage. He clapped when the pilot announced they were diverting to the Spanish airport along the coast even if it di add a couple of hours onto his trip.

good ride report, reminds me of my first time too.

At least an early stack reminds you to stay careful. Enjoy yourself.

Head over to Chatel next. the panoramique green trail is great,