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by climo
4 Oct 2021, 1:09pm
Forum: Non-standard, Human Powered Vehicles
Topic: HP Velotechnik Gekko FS20 trike
Replies: 0
Views: 479

HP Velotechnik Gekko FS20 trike

for sale in the classified section
by climo
28 Sep 2021, 2:34pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Touring in the 50's
Replies: 61
Views: 4520

Re: Touring in the 50's

You lot 'ad it easy! Lived in t'cardboard box, 'handful of hot gravel for breakfast. Worked 30 hour days, got up before we went to bed.....
:D
by climo
12 Sep 2021, 6:38pm
Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
Topic: Pressure Stoves
Replies: 80
Views: 5566

Re: Pressure Stoves

Bmblbzzz wrote: 10 Sep 2021, 3:38pm
climo wrote: 9 Sep 2021, 8:30pm We use a primus multifuel and cook on petrol. Preheat is easy. Turning it over isn't a good design, it's difficult to judge the moment to turn the stove off, I tend to shut the valve off too early and the bottle is still pressurized which means I get sprayed with petrol when I unscrew the pump to refill the bottle. I'm sure this is operator error! More importantly the 3 pronged spreader on the burner can pop off and get lost (don't ask) making the stove useless. We carry a spare

There's not perfect solution.
It might be operator error, but it also means this type of stove is designed in a way that doesn't allow a margin for this type of error. As you say, there is no perfect solution, in part that's because different people are inclined to make different errors.
You're right of course.
If I turn the bottle over and let the burner burn out the flame ends up like a candle and leaves soot on the burner assembly and presumably in the jet. I then close both the pump valve and shortly after that the stove control valve as per the manual (I think!). When the stove is going the burner comes clean and tbh I tend to turn the stove off when it's still burning with a blue flame just to keep it clean. The downside is that there is still a lot of pressure in the bottle.
by climo
9 Sep 2021, 8:30pm
Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
Topic: Pressure Stoves
Replies: 80
Views: 5566

Re: Pressure Stoves

We use a primus multifuel and cook on petrol. Preheat is easy. Turning it over isn't a good design, it's difficult to judge the moment to turn the stove off, I tend to shut the valve off too early and the bottle is still pressurized which means I get sprayed with petrol when I unscrew the pump to refill the bottle. I'm sure this is operator error! More importantly the 3 pronged spreader on the burner can pop off and get lost (don't ask) making the stove useless. We carry a spare.
For all that the stove is a good controllable burner but using gas is easier on short trips.

Paraffin is easier to burn but not easily available, for us it's a non starter. :)

In france we had problems filling sig type bottles at new style petrol stations as the nozzle will not go far enough into the bottle to disengage the pump auto cutoff system therefore no petrol would be dispensed. This can be a real problem.
With a multifuel you can use gas but be aware that screw on cartridges aren't always to be found at least in france. We have an adaptor for the old style puncture cartridges to screw thread.

There's not perfect solution.
by climo
9 Sep 2021, 10:55am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Santander to St Malo
Replies: 6
Views: 866

Re: Santander to St Malo

eurovelo 1 up the coast to Nantes then Rennes to St Malo
Look at https://en.eurovelo.com/
by climo
31 Aug 2021, 5:56pm
Forum: Non-standard, Human Powered Vehicles
Topic: Slime inner tubes
Replies: 11
Views: 1103

Re: Slime inner tubes

tried slime but the valves just glued up.
by climo
28 Aug 2021, 11:55am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Coasts and castles clothing kit
Replies: 20
Views: 1251

Re: Coasts and castles clothing kit

Jdsk wrote: 25 Aug 2021, 4:50pm What are you going to wear for dinner?
His DJ of course! :)
by climo
19 Aug 2021, 3:24pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Another cyclist on trial for manslaughter
Replies: 102
Views: 8400

Re: Another cyclist on trial for manslaughter

Jdsk wrote: 19 Aug 2021, 1:56pm Loka was acquitted of manslaughter. He was convicted of causing bodily harm through wanton and furious driving.

Jonathan
I don't care what he was charged with, the fact is that he killed someone! That's it, they're dead and for his family it's a life sentence. Two years is no punishment for that.
by climo
19 Aug 2021, 1:54pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Another cyclist on trial for manslaughter
Replies: 102
Views: 8400

Re: Another cyclist on trial for manslaughter

This one.
If you hit someone on the road and flee as seemed to happen here then 2 years is way too little. It doesn't matter what you're charged with, dead is dead.
by climo
19 Aug 2021, 1:42pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Another cyclist on trial for manslaughter
Replies: 102
Views: 8400

Re: Another cyclist on trial for manslaughter

A person died and the culprit who fled the scene gets 2 years for manslaughter. Should be at least 8 years. I know it's the max sentence but not anything like long enough and he'll be out in one. Life is cheap.
by climo
17 Aug 2021, 7:08pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: CAPE CORNWALL TO CAPE WRATH
Replies: 7
Views: 556

Re: CAPE CORNWALL TO CAPE WRATH

dodger1 wrote: 17 Aug 2021, 12:10pm Looking for a different end-to-end and wondered if anyone has a reasonably recent route (i.e. last five years) for this.
I can see that people have walked it, but can't find a cycling route.
I presume much of it will follow the LEJOG route, but it's the bit from around Glasgow onward I'm thinking of.
I'm also thinking that a diversion through the Outer Hebrides and over to Ullapool would be interesting or, better still, avoiding Glasgow and opting for a route to Arran, then Kintyre and north to Oban before hopping over to Barra.
Anybody tried this?
Excellent diversion through the islands. Or get to Oban and up the Great Glen route to Inverness.
by climo
15 Aug 2021, 12:08pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Wiltshire White Horse Trail
Replies: 2
Views: 255

Re: Wiltshire White Horse Trail

Do you mean the Imber Perimeter Path? If so yes. Mainly good surface but sections of gravel. Gravel from above Market Lavington to the Upavon junction.
by climo
14 Aug 2021, 3:02pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Avoiding Manchester
Replies: 22
Views: 1434

Re: Avoiding Manchester

"Avoiding Manchester" Sounds like a good idea. I've been avoiding it for a long time :)
by climo
9 Aug 2021, 9:56am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Routes Across the Alps (and Visa Problems)
Replies: 12
Views: 772

Re: Routes Across the Alps (and Visa Problems)

90 days maximum without a visa - just part of the brexit dividend. The good thing is that all the silver haired retirees who voted for this shambles and were hoping to spend the winters in the sun are in the same boat. Pun intended.
by climo
4 Aug 2021, 11:53am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: EU VISAs after Brexit
Replies: 411
Views: 85870

Re: EU VISAs after Brexit

I can't say that I blame France and any EU countries for being hostile to brits. We've messed with their economies, made them employ 100's of customs officials and our wonderful government and press have said some awful xenophobic things about them. If I was a French immigration officer I would most likely be hostile to a brit passing my door.
You reap what you sow.