Cycling UK Forum

Hi Fat Boy Riding, has been a long time. After your help and advice, I started my ALAN project. After a lot of money efforts, I finished the bike the last year, in fact I ran with my Alan "La pedals de clip" a kind of Eroica race but in Catalonia. Since I finished the project I have done a...

andymiller wrote:[quote="doodah"

Oh and I don't know if I'm allowed to suggest this, but there's a guy called Vernon who visits CycleChat who seems to have done the further reaches of eurovelo 6. It might be worth seeing if you can contact him.

Sadly, Vernon is no longer with us, but would no doubt encourage doodah to just jump on his bike and sample as much, tarte, kuchen, strudel, burek and pita as he can

Not with a Brompton, but Belgium is a good place to Tour and you will find lots of general advice on this forum if you play around with the search function.

Once you get a general idea and have more specific questions there are many on here who will be happy to help

Thanks for the replies folks. Waterproof jacket and trousers are already in the panniers, I have a pearl izuma cycling jersey which isn't that windproof but did the job, but unfortunately I'm a bit too chubby for it now. I like the look of this one in navy but figured it's probably quite heavy and ...

Sweep wrote:Views on this:

Http://www.blacks.co.uk/activities/1076 ... -tent.html

Just for you or for sharing? If the later I would be tempted by the Lodge 2 which Blacks have for £89 (and possibly another 10 off if today's discount applied to already reduced stock)

Not all "rough" surfaces are "bumpy". Many roads in Ireland are constructed with a top dressing of loose clippings rolled into the Tarmac. This is not terribly bumpy but is very rough and on occasion I have lost speed on shallow downhills. Under these conditions my ill informed g...

Mountain bike UK is for the "kidz" as is reflected in the language and the ads, avoid unless it is delivered in a plain envelope

I have used the Tim Cooper cycling in Ireland book as a source of inspiration, and well planned routes, on numerous occasions http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cycle-Touring-Ireland-Cicerone-Guides/dp/1852845627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448102956&sr=8-1&keywords=Cycle+touring+in+Ireland There are a...

There is an increasing number of on-line or downloadable publications.

Here are a couple which, while being very different from each other, operate outside the tried and tested formats of the big publishers

http://www.velovision.com

http://www.theridejournal.com

I have a Tramp1 :D But it has been a long time since it has been pitched anywhere except mt garden as a play tent :( I bought mine in the mid 1980s, I had wanted a Saunders spacepacker, but it was a little out of my price range. The Tramp is fine for one but very tight for 2 ( kit outside in a survi...

I am guess you have ordered Shimano A530s as the pedals, if so are they the silver or black ones? If silver and given a silver seatpost and chainset I would go for silver racks. Thereafter accent colour: black or blue.On the subject of which http://www.wiggle.com/token-bling-box-for-road-tk691tk692/...

Welcome :) With the North Downs and the Surrey hills within striking distance you have some fine rides available to you. South West London CTC http://www.cyclingswlondon.org.uk do a lot of rides in that part of the world, you may want to join one or two and see if it is for you. Good luck with the c...

Does anyone know if there are guarded bike parks in Belgian cities as there are in Netherlands cities? Especially Antwerp and Brussels. And also Luxembourg, though it's not in Belgium of course. Following on from Vorpal, Antwerp main station has a very large underground cycle park. The main train s...

South From Brussels there is also the RAVeL network of paths.

http://ravel.wallonie.be/opencms/opencms/fr

Mick F wrote:

thirdcrank wrote:MickF - Media reports suggest that he was on his way to his club and was already late.

Do we know which club and how far?

With hindsight, he may have done better by just running.

Funnily enough, It was the Carlton Club