Girls Aloud

Love Machine is a shitting good pop song

lose a limb or bleed to death? tough call

though I understand they have had to teach jarheads not to apply a tourniquet to the neck

Re aspirin
That’s an interesting one. Asthmatics and folk who are on warfarin (excuse the spelling) can have conditions made worse by aspirin according to the first aid book I was studying last night.

Apparently it’s only something like 10% and the other 90% of us thus get denied useful drugs.

leave chainring where it is, which looks better anyway IMO, and move rear sprocket out. As surmised above this will put less bending stress on the axle. Not that there’s much anyway.

OK, maybe worry was too strong a word

rash pack in Camelbak, or bigger pack when bivvying

not when on the road or only out for a couple of hours

I do worry that the length of some lists is people looking to compensate for their own abilities by blaming the bike and trying a new one.

Also, how much must it cost to lose a hundred quid or so on so many bikes!

And finally – kit list

And finally – kit list

Ypu gotta get home…

http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/05/01/lejog-ride-entry-15-april-2012/

http://www.32sixteen.com/autobikography/

Stock and modified classes

Last day

http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/30/lejog-ride-entry-14-april-2012/

Kit list etc will follow this week sometime.

bedmaker – Member
Get the packraft out!

LOL

this is relevant to my interests

(I used to couldn’t dance) tight pants

An estimate accurate to one part in 3500 or, 0.03%, is not an estimate.

Both my figures are approximated (^_-)

Estimated Cycling Time unknown, but at least 60 hours, 49 minutes

Estimated Cycling Time… 60 hours 49 minutes

Estimated Cycling Time … 60 hours 49 minutes

Estimated … minutes

Can someone explain the concept of an estimate to the CTC?

http://www.outdoorresearch.com/en/or-gear/jackets.html?cat=2165

Can vouch for Buffalo pile jackets for warmth but the crotch strap buckle is just so badly thought out.

yes. 18 miles each way. 1 hour 10.

sometimes Ii wear lycra. sometimes i wear baggies. sometimes Iw ear baggies over lycra. WTF

Penultimate leg.

http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/26/lejog-ride-entry-13-april-2012/

I don’t find Lycra comfy at all. I doubt that it is because I’m 15 stone as I have seen blokes much bigger than me in it.

Physically comfortable or discomfort at your own body image?

The latter would explain your sneery resentment of us skinny MAMILS that can wear it without being uncomfortable about our body shape.

It’s a Hunter – http://www.huntercycles.com – with swinger dropouts from Black Cat.

You can get them with straight top tubes but that would have felt wrong.

Flickr set here.

http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/25/lejog-ride-entry-12-april-2012/

it gets wet and muddy.

next question.

Travel to/from London all the time outside peak hours. Didn’t book it on the trains for my recent LEJOG, but there were guards vans on the London-Penzance and Inverness-London trains. Mind, they weren’t Virgin, so might be tougher.

IIRC a few years ago getting a bike on the West Coast mainline it should have been booked, but I never used to bother. Just avoided peak times as others have already suggested.

Horst link Turner Flux.

Fortunately…

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Probably the nearest thing to my old North Face pack.

http://uk.thenorthface.com/tnf-uk-en/equipment/shop-by-category/daypacks-urban-bags/sport-hiker-waist-pack-1.html

I’ve a pannier rack as opposed the panniers, just the one off the seat post, plan is to attached everything to the bike in dry sacks and velcor straps that we are adapting! So sleeping bag, cooker etc on the bike, then ust a few bits in the backpack. Thin I might go a little larger than 10 liters just to be on the safe side, like someone said, I don’t need to fill it all up

As I presumed then, having read the OP, apparently unlike the smartarses above

What’s left to take?

some tools, presumably pump and spare tubes strapped to frame
wallet
camera
spork – better than fumblin in pannier
multi tool, for instance leatherman
windproof for fast access
head torch, rear lights
bog roll and dog poop bags (carry it out)
minimal toiletries, if multi day trip
first aid kit
whistle

Pic above is everything on back, this is everything on bike…
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I’ve done trips with everything in a 20 litre original KIMM sac. My back didn’t like it.

40 litres WTF? If I’m the “soft yoof” of today what the **** in the way of luxuries are you old giffers carrying? who’s the soft lad again?

you know cock all about my bivvying but would just like to be smart. from here you just look like a tit

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I don’t, I carry them on the bike. That’s why I quoted “bits”.

I read the OP, where he states he has panniers etc, so I presumed “bits” would be the niff naff and trivia stuff you don’t want in panniers cos you want quick access to, for instance wallet, camera, spork, multi tool etc. What he called “a few bits”

Being facetious doesn’t suit you.

I stick everything on the bike and don’t use a backpack at all. On long rides your back will thank you for it.

FWIW I can fit all “bits” for multiday trip fit into a 5litre North Face bum bag. Straps to bars when riding, easy to remove when off the bike, eg in shops buying food. If you need 10litres I’d seriously question how much kit you’re taking.

Hope cable operated.

BITD

strava is the latest bandwagon

essex lad landed in Munich, Germany…. it’s alright. 45mins to the alps (just received another dumping of snow!!!). good beer. nice city/lifestyle. naked birds in summer along the river, which is nice….
roll on summer…. snow free trails and leisurely oogling on the way back from the beer garden…

If things go well I’m moving to Munich soon. Singlespeed friendly?

Bedfordshire

Not short of boring bridleways (better than Lancashire where I used to live), and then there’s Woburn and Chicksands for tech.

For the effort required by parents to support youngsters, and the effort required by youngsters to become competitive at world level I reckon pushy patents gravitate to football, hoping their kid will be the next Wayne Rooney, making them rich.

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