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Dusting off my standard advice here: get a Svea 123 and enjoy a hot meal every time. It's not a multifuel stove as it only runs on petrol but you're really not going to have a problem finding petrol I promise. No pump to go wrong, no filter to clog. Someone will post that it will gum up and everybody in a 100 mile radius will die if you don't use Coleman fuel whatever that is, but ignore this armchair traveller's bs. I have only ever used petrol and never had a problem. Thank you for reading.

If they're hydraulic disc brakes you might want a spacer of some sort eg beer mats/bit of plastic/bit of wood to go between the pads when the wheel is out. This is so that if you accidentally squeeze the brake lever the gap between the pads doesn't reduce.

mjr: have a look at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_ipla ... /subtitles

BigFoz wrote:I use a back light that has 2 independent rows of LEDs, set the bottom on steady and the top on Knight Rider type scroll..

It might be a good idea to check what this actually look like from a distance - I had a similar light in the past and it looked great close up but having a constant light so close to a flashing/sweeping light diminished the impact of the flashing/sweeping I thought. (I have a dynamo now so constant front and back.)

Just to point out that a lot of the suggestions aren't min/max thermometers, which the OP would need to record what he/she slept through...

They seem to have gone very quickly from desiring promotion to desiring compulsion. How much do you like your job, how sackable are you, how much do you want to rock the boat?
[EDIT: Sorry just noticed it's a different poster at a different workplace -ignore me]

I too am a big fan of a max/min thermometer, more to record higher temperatures so I know what I've been sweating through but also good for calibrating yourself against sleeping bag manufacturer's claims. You just have to pick one off ebay that you like the look of - it won't last forever but they're not expensive.

For what it's worth this has been my favourite style for compactness - the sucker comes off:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Solar-Power- ... SwpRtZecmF

My bike has the internal mechanism with a cable run via the top tube and down, Mrs H has the external mechanism with a fully enclosed cable run that goes under the bottom bracket and along the chainstay. The shifts on my bike are always a lot crisper. Whether that's the mechanism or the cable run I couldn't say. It doesn't affect operation though, only feel when comparing the two.

Tiberius, pwa, I'm the same, why would we need to know?

tommydog wrote:

geocycle wrote:Out of interest why don't you want an eccentric bottom bracket?

I have read so many horror stories on these over the years from people on forums and in magazines, but admit I don't have any first hand experience. But maybe you can convince me otherwise

Please suggest a nice eccentric bottom bracket setup that you think would work for me!

My Thorn Raven has an EBB, Mrs H has a bike with sliding dropouts, neither has been a problem ever. If you avoid adjusting the tension until absolutely necessary ie when the chain falls off on corners then it's going to be years between adjustments anyway. The EBB is easier to do as you only need access from one side but neither is a drama.

[EDIT: Don't think Thorn do disc brakes so no good for you though]

I just drill the rims out with a 9mm bit - it's only aluminium. There are two camps of schraeder inner tube - those where the rubber goes up the valve and those where it doesn't so to be completely tour safe you need the slightly bigger hole. Doesn't seem to have weakened my rims catastrophically before anyone asks.

Just search ebay for "long refillable lighter", or ask in your nearest traditional iron mongers.
Another option is a jet lighter as the flame will come out where pointed even if you angle it downwards.

Clingfilm them then masking tape?

I would run the wire up the centre of the mudguard using a continuous length of 2" wide helicopter/gorilla/polytunnel tape to secure it.

Well simonhill I don't think so back, whatever you heard on You and Yours. But fill your boots, talk up your premiums.

Book it!

I use Insure&Go annual multi-trip. I have to upgrade to a gold package due to medical screening, but this allows for longer individual trip lengths. Used them for Himalaya and Pamirs.

Always read the small print, ring for clarification on anything if necessary, but I would be very wary of ringing to ask about things that are not already mentioned in the small print! You're mugging yourself by ringing up to ask call centre people "do you cover me at altitude on bad roads"? Something that specific would have to be mentioned in the wording if they wanted it excluded, it's not something they could pluck out of thin air afterwards. Now we know that on a touring bike on bad roads you slow down and go round the potholes so it's actually slower and safer, but they're not going to know that and you're not going to be able to put that across at the relevant meeting.