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Folding toothbrush and sample size toothpaste from the dentist for the win!

A free to enter ride through the night to the seaside, about 100 miles

Starting in Bath, and finishing at Exmouth, Devon
On mostly minor roads, with three major climbs and plenty of other lumps and bumps, as well as some flat bits...
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New start location: Bath

*This year the ride will be starting from Green Park Station in Bath. Obviously we won't be going out over Clifton Suspension Bridge, but there's a new treat in store: The *Two Tunnels Greenway, which takes you out of Bath to the south through the tunnels of the old Somerset and Dorset Railway. The Combe Down tunnel is over a mile long.
The distance to Exmouth is more or less exactly the same as before. The route is a bit hillier at the start, with a sharp climb to Hinton Charterhouse after the Two Tunnels, but the ascent onto the Mendips is more gradual than before. The route then heads to Cheddar, as before;

http://www.exmouthexodus.co.uk/

Hottest day of the year, Friday thirteenth, let's be extra special careful out there, .

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Last month tidying up my desk I had 4 or 5 in an office draw that I was about to put in the recycling, an office 'colleague' grabbed them as he would find them useful. Apparently put them on ebay and made a few quid, didn't even buy me a donut!!

CSB

You need to decide if you want down or synthetic, obviously both have pros and cons.

Rab, Mountain Equipment and TNF are widely available.

Adding a liner (or wearing extra clothes) when needed, as you mentioned is a good way to save carrying a warmer bag in the summer

There were some good offers on Moutain Equipment down bags I saw earlier this month

Bart at the back of the class when the dioramas are being judged "She's trying to make a monkey out of you"

I am just planning a multi day route but have one day where I just need to get from A to B.
One section of this day is about 50 miles. I have two options, one option is 6 miles longer but saves 1000ft of ascent.
Is there a rule of thumb covering miles v height gain as to where the benefit of one outweighs the other?

Poor timing. Just been giving the bike a wash in preparation for this and wondered why a couple of rear spokes are loose. Further inspection revealed that the flange on the hub has cracked off and is now hanging on by a few millimetres!!!

I have been trying to identify a strange little creak for the last couple of weeks

Is anyone going from the Bromley area and fancy showing me the way to the start?

Or any suggested easy to follow routes to the start?

I am planning on a 7 or 8 day bit of touring in the early summer. Someone at work has offered to lend me a Garmin Edge 705. Not having used one before and not being very techy I have a couple of questions if anyone can help:

Will I be able to load the complete route onto this or will it not have enough memory?
Is it best to load each days section or just one big route?
What is the best (free) online software to plan the route with?

thanks

Can recommend the Exped ones, good insulation values, small pack size and light

registration now full - LFGSS must have about 25% of entries

You can via itunes

Over Chrimbo I decided that I'd like to re-do Harry Beck's famous tube map. Its too easy on the eye and not a true representation of where the stations are in relation to each other. I'm totally useless with the crayons so I shall 'draw' it by GPS tracking each line end to end, cycling to every station along the way.

Surely this deserves its own thread

There's an english version of The Bridge? Eh?

They have some of the 1st series on the iPlayer if you feel the need to catch up.

The Tunnel, (but I don't think we missed anything)

yes series 2

So much better than the English version

Depends what gas - I had a primus stove and could only get find the specific canisters from high quality camping shops and certain decathlons, outside of france it became pretty useless.

The blue Campinggaz canisters were alot easier to find and sold in most supermarkets

You can get a small converter to make the Camping gaz (pierce able) cylinder fit screw fit stoves

There is a Cotswold Outdoors in Deansgate, M3 2GQ

So, is anyone else running on christmas day or am I being a buffoon by forcing myself to stick to the schedule?
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Christmas Day parkrun for me, will be good to get a bit of fresh air before the eating begins!

Anyone know much about electric pianos? the good kind

my housemate has a technics px 6 electric piano, and i spilled a glass of water on it..

it was turned on when it happened but was turned straight off

mopped it up and left it off, my housemate tried to use it this morning and the speakers crackly (least of the worries for now) and doing single notes works but multiple keys ends in bizarre results

turned back off so will leave it to dry out while we're away over christmas, but whats the chance of it being permanent?

these things are freaking expensive...

Maybe try and get some of the covers taken off to allow it to dry quicker, the water shorting across the circuit boards may be making the odd behavior but it may be possible to soak it up with cotton buds or tissue paper (make sure its switched off).
Is it covered under insurance?

Could cut up innertube with holepunched holes be made to work?

Came across this video The Road From Karakol

"In summer 2011, Outdoor Research athlete Kyle Dempster took off on his bike across Kyrgyzstan with a couple mostly-accurate maps, a trailer full of climbing gear, and a vocabulary of 10 Kyrgyz words. He spent two months pedaling and pushing the bike more than 1200 km on roads of variable states of neglect, wading through wild rivers, dealing with corrupt military checkpoint staff, and soloing a handful of unclimbed alpine rock and mixed routes. He recorded the journey, his camera his only partner, friend, and sometimes the only receiving end of his conversations for days at a time"

If you have 25 minutes its an interesting watch leaving my 'touring' feeling very non adventurous!

Thanks for that, owl. Image search for that is awesome.

^^^^^^^
Wow, and he took them with a home hacked lens on his balcony!

FFS what is wrong with people, not only do we litter our own world.

:) ^^

3/ 27
7.8 km
310 metres climb,
open fell Mendip North,
Forest,
Craghopping,
Scree running.
fucking ace time.
stoked.

Was this an organised race or just some training? Do you have any more details as I have family local to the Mendips so it may be something for the future