I can find two instances of a bike stolen while riding LEJOG.
Manchester is the common link.
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- 14 Apr 2024, 8:02pm
- Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
- Topic: Bicycle theft common on JOGLE/LEJOG?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 299
- 14 Apr 2024, 5:31pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Panniers vs trailer?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 167
Re: Panniers vs trailer?
You’re always going to be moving more weight with a trailer. Luggage + trailer weight. Also the extra drag of another one or wheels.
I’d be extremely surprised if the trailer setup was kinder to the battery.
Have you ever known a vehicle get more mpg when towing a trailer?
I’d be extremely surprised if the trailer setup was kinder to the battery.
Have you ever known a vehicle get more mpg when towing a trailer?
- 10 Apr 2024, 6:56pm
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Feeling bad - is it the bonk?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1817
Re: Feeling bad - is it the bonk?
The OP links to Trainer Road an esteemed training app it says 'Bonking is a dreaded experience and occurs when the body becomes functionally depleted of glycogen.'
What do you think it is ?
- 9 Apr 2024, 2:38pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: touring energy honey
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3952
Re: touring energy honey
I suspect the OP has no newly erupted teeth.L+1 wrote: ↑9 Apr 2024, 2:16pm I don’t think your teeth ( assuming you have your natural teeth?!) will thank you. Some decades ago now, there was a public information campaign ( started maybe by That’s Life?) to stop toddlers being given Ribena type drinks in bottles with feeding dummies, because the proximity of the sweet juice was causing damage to their newly erupted teeth. Your honey would surely cause a similar effect?
Buy (or make) some good quality flapjack type bars - many have very few and identifiable/understandable ingredients eg Stoats Oats Bars. Your teeth and digestion will thank you!
I know someone who’s cycled for 20 or 30 yrs always carrying honey filled Ryvita as his go to food.Honey helps combat the acidity in the mouth resulting from sugary foods, which can reduce plaque buildup. Honey is naturally sweet and has more vitamins and minerals than processed sugar, so it won't damage your teeth like processed sugar.
- 8 Apr 2024, 9:40pm
- Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
- Topic: LEJOG 2024
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16048
Re: LEJOG 2024
I think he means route77 ( turn left at the North car park it used to be muddy but now tarmac) along by the river to jubilee bridge. Cross over there to the B898.. lovely route to Logierait bridge where you can pick up your route again.
- 8 Apr 2024, 2:42pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Using cycle lanes & paths
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7287
Re: Using cycle lanes & paths
A recent ruling in Scotland 'Rules of the road don’t apply'
https://www.cyclelawscotland.co.uk/blog ... dont-apply
https://www.cyclelawscotland.co.uk/blog ... dont-apply
- 8 Apr 2024, 10:00am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Is Europe the best place in the world to tour?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4844
Re: Is Europe the best place in the world to tour?
Like @ChrisF I’ve spent the last year exploring the virtual cycling world. I’m assuming it’s Fulgaz rides you speak of? It’s suited my needs grand and I took to it a lot better than I ever thought I would.
Initially reading the OP I thought Oh yes you’re right. I choose my rides completely randomly closing my eyes and holding down and across arrows and see where I land. I’ve been around the world without leaving home and always know where the coffee stop is. The weather is always good and it never rains. I’ve found if my random selection lands in the USA or Australia I’m tempted, and often do, to nudge it onto the next ride.
Things I dislike about USA is wide roads, traffic noise, big bloated vehicles. There’s a ride in the Rockies while on a cycle path the scenery gets monotonous and traffic noise horrendous. I find the East Coast states more agreeable for scenery and obviously riding land marks like the Golden Gate Bridge are interesting, they’re rarely repeatable. Yet the gravel rides in USA are great, maybe I just love the sound of loose grit. Australia it’s hard to define why I skip them. Often wide highways again, featureless houses, and dry soil maybe.
I’ve found that rides I’ve repeated, more than once, are usually in GB, Pyrenees, Norway.
Would I choose my real time touring destination from these experiences? Absolutely not but I suppose you can’t help but form some opinion. e.g. there’s a ride from Penrith to I think it was Pooley Bridge which was really boring yet, in the real world, I’ve cycled probably every road in Cumbria and never found it boring.
Edit to correct warred to world
Initially reading the OP I thought Oh yes you’re right. I choose my rides completely randomly closing my eyes and holding down and across arrows and see where I land. I’ve been around the world without leaving home and always know where the coffee stop is. The weather is always good and it never rains. I’ve found if my random selection lands in the USA or Australia I’m tempted, and often do, to nudge it onto the next ride.
Things I dislike about USA is wide roads, traffic noise, big bloated vehicles. There’s a ride in the Rockies while on a cycle path the scenery gets monotonous and traffic noise horrendous. I find the East Coast states more agreeable for scenery and obviously riding land marks like the Golden Gate Bridge are interesting, they’re rarely repeatable. Yet the gravel rides in USA are great, maybe I just love the sound of loose grit. Australia it’s hard to define why I skip them. Often wide highways again, featureless houses, and dry soil maybe.
I’ve found that rides I’ve repeated, more than once, are usually in GB, Pyrenees, Norway.
Would I choose my real time touring destination from these experiences? Absolutely not but I suppose you can’t help but form some opinion. e.g. there’s a ride from Penrith to I think it was Pooley Bridge which was really boring yet, in the real world, I’ve cycled probably every road in Cumbria and never found it boring.
Edit to correct warred to world
- 8 Apr 2024, 7:31am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Shoes for flat pedals
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4937
Re: Shoes for flat pedals
I’m still wearing these viewtopic.php?t=136886 admittedly my milage/ use of them has plummeted the last 12 months. Still in good order though
- 7 Apr 2024, 10:06am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Anyone else here watching Sarah Bridgewater?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1710
Re: Anyone else here watching Sarah Bridgewater?
Fast Forward is the key word
Maybe when she finds time to do some editing there might be something worth watching.
It’s the modern world though isn’t it a way to make a living which we never dreamed of as youngsters. Her estimated income on Twitch is between 700-1700 dollars/ month
https://streamscharts.com/channels/sarahbridgewater
She’s not got enough subscribers or watches on YouTube to make anything significant on there.
I currently await each new day from Edna's Adventures https://www.youtube.com/@ednanovak she’s endured a lot of rain on her LEJOG so far.
Maybe when she finds time to do some editing there might be something worth watching.
It’s the modern world though isn’t it a way to make a living which we never dreamed of as youngsters. Her estimated income on Twitch is between 700-1700 dollars/ month
https://streamscharts.com/channels/sarahbridgewater
She’s not got enough subscribers or watches on YouTube to make anything significant on there.
I currently await each new day from Edna's Adventures https://www.youtube.com/@ednanovak she’s endured a lot of rain on her LEJOG so far.
- 6 Apr 2024, 11:35am
- Forum: Health and fitness
- Topic: Shoulder stiffness/tension for a drop bar newbie
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7004
Re: Shoulder stiffness/tension for a drop bar newbie
Wouldn’t a hacksaw or pipe cutter be simpler? There must have been other reasons.
- 5 Apr 2024, 4:14pm
- Forum: Health and fitness
- Topic: Of mice and men
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1614
Re: Of mice and men
First farm I worked on after leaving school in the sixties had a rat problem. We had one of those wire cages they fell in but didn’t get out of. Don’t know if you’d call it humane though because in the morning we would throw a sack over it and throw it into a water trough to drown them.
- 5 Apr 2024, 1:11pm
- Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
- Topic: LEJOG 2024
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16048
Re: LEJOG 2024
Seals! When I visited Skelbo Castle , Dornoch Firth , it was full of seals.
Yet I’ve visited Chanonry Point a few times and still not seen a Dolphin.
Yet I’ve visited Chanonry Point a few times and still not seen a Dolphin.
- 4 Apr 2024, 7:42pm
- Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
- Topic: Bike friendly campsites in North Yorkshire
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2017
Re: Bike friendly campsites in North Yorkshire
If you find yourself near Danby Wiske I thoroughly recommend https://danbywiskecamping.co.uk/.
Lovely family, tuck shop, backpackers field, pub 200 yds away. I’ve stayed here twice in the last few years and always coast to coast walkers to chat with.
Lovely family, tuck shop, backpackers field, pub 200 yds away. I’ve stayed here twice in the last few years and always coast to coast walkers to chat with.
- 4 Apr 2024, 12:23pm
- Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
- Topic: LEJOG 2024
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16048
Re: LEJOG 2024
After you cross the Kessock bridge there is no need to drop down into North Kessock. After crossing the bridge carry on , get some great food at Harry Gows, and follow cycle path beside A9 to rejoin your route.
- 2 Apr 2024, 10:53pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Handlebar height
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2353
Re: Handlebar height
I voted level which is close enough. Reality is the bars are an inch lower