I like the sound of this.

So do you fill in the recessed part where the rim strip usually sits with tape or the whole thing so you just have a couple of mm below the hook for the tyre bead to get into?

Also are you just gaffing in a cut off valve from an old tube?

Thanks for the tips guys, guess I'll just suck it and see.

ps I knew what you meant Mosey!

G-G-G-GGHETTO tubeless. Brrrraap!

I am going to get one of these on payday.

I heard a few reports that water can easilly get in and kill the battery so you might want to waterproof the battery pack somehow. I was planning on a healthy dose of gaffer tape although I am a bit worried that it might overheat when charging with all that extra insultation….

No one's zapping my balls.

Second the podcasts- check out Adam and Joe's if you fancy a laugh

There is a brilliant audiobook version of Hemingway's 'the old man and the sea' Was a bit cynical before listening because it's one of my favourite books, but the narrator's voice really fits. Think it's Donald Sutherland

That T-Junction is actually a crossroads- what the map doesn't show is the cheeky bit of singletrack heading south- skirts and undulates around the West side of the hill above the woods then drops steeply down to join the BW above Ladybower Inn. Pretty hairy in places (enough to send me for a tumble at least!) and very good fun. Best to start on the BW on top of Whinstone then you get to do the rock slabs too.

http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=419796&y=387396&z=115&sv=419796,387396&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=828&ax=419796&ay=387396&lm=0

Not sure whether this would even be open access- not on the OS maps, not in a nature reserve but there are others nearby. It is a well beaten path though and fair game I reckon!

So what about trails that are neither FP or BW? I was on a nice bit of singletrack above Ladybower this weekend that doesn't show on the OS map and is not signed at all. The ramblers there were thoroughly offended by my presence and quick to point out that it definately was not a bike path. My only response because I don't know any better is 'well it's not a footpath either'