mark morgan

As someone who wears wellies 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, I would highly recommend Bekina StepLite X (NOT the safety version). Mid price (ca £50), very light, extremely warm and comfortable and fantastic grip. I have climbed Penyfan in mine in winter conditions when others were using crampons (it really didn’t merit crampon usage BTW).

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[strong]Simon E[/strong] wrote:

…………….. Anyone who thinks there’s a simple answer to any complex question doesn’t deserve to have their opinion see the light of day.

Very true. But how about these facts. Agricultural land use in the hills of Wales has hardly changed (structurally) one bit in the last 100 years with the exception tha…[Read more]

Having lived and traveled extensively in Europe, Italy is still the only place where I am yet to have a decent cup of coffee.

Crickhowell looks proper bad, they have been rescuing people with the helicopter this morning. The whole of the Usk Valley and the South Wales Valleys are having a hard time of it. We are cut off but if I needed to the Landrover would not be worried about the flood on the road here. it’s only about 2 feet deep and always floods there. Supposed to…[Read more]

Only tip I can give is to think in 3D when designing the layout. It is easy to waste space by keeping everything lowdown. If you only need 3 feet above your bed, then build it so there is only 3 feet above it. Gives lots more space under than if you had 4 foot of head room. And do you need 3 feet above you feet in bed? Probably not, so bang a row…[Read more]

I’m the same as clubby, 36 when I breath in. At 6 foot too I fit the Large bang on. The fabric has a little stretch in it too so worth bearing in mind. And tighter fit is better than loose for that purpose I reckon.

On the other hand. Just think what they could be!

I did a Welsh nationality test the other day and failed. Trouble is it was linked to by a Dutch friend who lives over the border. She passed!

Some sense in that thinking Nick, but the runs they have currently start at a single Black Diamond, and go upwards so there really isn’t much for a wheels on the ground mincer like me 🙁

Was still awesome though 🙂

Cheers for the link. Missed that.

We had a (wet) day at the Dyfi Bike park last week. The work that has gone into it is incredible. The fact that a mediocre rider like me can still get down most of the lines safely is testament to the skill that Dan and Co have put into the design and implementation of the runs. Mind you, some of the features…[Read more]

Interesting that the German Pfund is 500g or half a kilo!

Most Hydraulic fittings on british machines are still BSP (British Standard Pipe) while stuff bought from the continent uses metric fittings. Can be a real struggle to get stuff to mix and match. Fertilizer is sold n 600 kilo bags and put down at a rate of x kgs /acre by most…[Read more]

Haha, I was too embarrassed to start a thread, but a bad case of man flu meant I was stuck indoors and ended up watching the first episode yesterday and loved it. Going to watch it quietly over next few weeks until up to date. It was made all the better by the fact that the opening scenes have the lads riding some a section of road I know all too…[Read more]

I have known 2 people with them. Both loved them. One of them was a seriously quick rider and had a top 20 Strava time on the Fort Bill DH track on his Scout.

^^^ This. Plus an additional handling Fee no doubt

Had an interesting night. Got a Cave Rescue shout at just before midnight. Empty roads and horizontal rain all the way over to the call-out site. Then spent an hour from 1.30 till 2.30 on top of the hill (at about 1800 feet) in my waterproofs while trying to get comms with the underground team. Of course I didn’t have a tent or shelter of any kind…[Read more]

Good to hear I am not the only one experiencing this. Will investigate further armed with this knowledge

Sounds like your axle might be thinking about coming out soon

Can’t see any reason not to. The top bearing is the same for straight or tapered forks, and they almost never wear out either (compared to the lower bearing). It may be that the angle on the lower bearing doesn’t match the chamfer angle on the new crown race. Compare the angles between the new on e and the old reducer crown-race and see if they…[Read more]

The plate on the monitor suggest input of 12V 3.3 amps, which is what the original power adapter puts out. So if it is only the new weaker power supply at risk, rather than the monitor, I will risk it for a few days until I can get a new one in spec sent to me.

That’s not a Dansih Submarine-killer. Danish war ships all have bar codes on them and not numbers.