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Good old Bender!

One mans pleasure is another mans misery!

I'm not six years old :) , I already have the necessary cooking skills. . . I just hate having to use them when I don't enjoy it.

It's kind of like decorating. . . I can already do it well, but it doesn't mean I want to! :)

Also, I can't even have cheesy pasta bake because I'm allergic to bloody dairy! :(

Well given that somebody else is making the whole thing into powdered form, making sure it has exactly the correct amount of everything in, packaging it, and shipping it to me, i consider it a pretty good deal.
I have nothing to do except mix it with tap water and drink it. For 70 quid a month I'm more than happy with the deal. :)

I eat almost solely Huel and it costs me about 70 a month. If you set up a regular order and buy multiple bags in that order it works out way less than I was spending on just lunch slone.

It's pretty much pointless getting someone to review a product that they have no interest in even using. Having seen her description of the food she was serving her friends it's pretty obvious she's very 'into' food. Both preparing, and eating it... So it's also pretty obvious she was going to hate switching all of that to a powdered food.
As I said, I love the stuff. I love the convenience, the lack of hassle or trying to figure out what to buy and make, and I even like the taste. For me it's a great product... But if people come at it full of negative thoughts from the start, and actually enjoy everything involved in having a normal solid food diet, it's probably a given they're not going to have the same feelings as me about Huel.

How is eating less normal food going to give you better, more complete nutrition?
Huel isn't a weight loss product. It's just something that can help you to lose weight if that's what you want to achieve.

Huel tastes nice to me, and I'm totally used to the texture now too.
I've tried adding both the chocolate and the banana flavour powder to it out of curiosity, and didn't like either. They just seemed too sweet.
First time I made it I used soya milk, and I very quickly realised that it's actually a lot better with just water.
I don't even bother with chilled water, I just use it straight from the tap.

I could easily live on it for a year with no cheating... Where's the info on that offer? :)

Ffs... I'd pretty much settled on the wahoo elemnt, and now you show me this! :)

That said, let me know next time you're free somewhere central and I'll meet you for a drink. . . Be good to catch up, especially considering how much you've been up to!

Boozerz are loserz. . . Or something motivational like that! :)

Time to get on that ketogenic diet! :)

I'm kind of swinging towards the elemnt now. There seems to be far less negative feedback compared to pretty much all of the more recent garmins.

Hmmmm, I didn't know you could power it via USB cable.

I saw one review that at first I read as 5.5hr life, then when I read it properly I realised he said that he'd done a 5.5hr ride and it had only gone from 96% to 55% or something like that.
There seems to be a lot of positive comments on the elemnt from people in the comments section of both the garmin reviews and the wahoo reviews.
Definitely looks good.
I actually really like the 'ugly' looks too that people have commented on. :)

Cheers Gabes, that's very helpful!

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Revelate, Ortlieb, and a couple of other companies offer drybags/harnesses which come with foam spacers to allow you to keep the bag far enough from the bars to avoid cables and levers being squished.
You could also try a more flexible cable, such as nokon or any of the equivilents. I find the extra flexibilty makes routing around harnesses much easier.
I used them on my old 10" travel downhill bike years ago too, to prevent the gears from auto shifting under maximum compression.

Either just with cinch straps, or with any of the other handlebar drybag harnesses on the market... Many of which have been around for years.

Must just be the build up of mud making them look bigger. :)

Well done Gabes!
What size tyres are you running there? Look a bit bigger than on your divide setup.

just noticed you said Altura, not Apidura. . . But from the looks of the Altura drybag style bag it's just another 'me too' product.

At the end of the day, the Ortlieb luggage was good enough for Josh Kato, and the Apidura luggage was good enough for Mike Hall. . . So I would recommend finding shops that stock all of them and have a good look yourself to see which you prefer.

The foam spacers are there for a reason, to space the drybag part away from the stem clamp, brake/shift levers, and cables.
A feature which Revelate came up with and still use on their sweetie roll.
Neither of them are harness style, and if I remember correctly, neither is the Apidura. None of them are designed for constant fitting and removal, they're designed to stay on for the duration of a trip.

This is why all of this type of luggage is called 'bikepacking' luggage, and not 'commuter' luggage, and is probably why I see so many people cycling around town with almost empty bikepacking saddlebags swinging around behind them.

Bodes well when I can't even navigate my way to a thread! :)