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- 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
- 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.....
- 12 Sep 2021, 6:38pm
- Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
- Topic: Pressure Stoves
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5566
Re: Pressure Stoves
You're right of course.Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑10 Sep 2021, 3:38pmIt 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.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.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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/
Look at https://en.eurovelo.com/
- 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.
- 28 Aug 2021, 11:55am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Coasts and castles clothing kit
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1251
- 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
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 17 Aug 2021, 7:08pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: CAPE CORNWALL TO CAPE WRATH
- Replies: 7
- Views: 556
Re: CAPE CORNWALL TO CAPE WRATH
Excellent diversion through the islands. Or get to Oban and up the Great Glen route to Inverness.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?
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
You reap what you sow.