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If you're going to do the rest of it independently, I would do it all independently. Once you're on the ground it won't seem that much trickier than any other bit - it's always just about cycling from where you are to where you can get to each day, not forgetting to find food and somewhere to sleep. You usually meet other cyclists along the way going in the same direction and you can often end up cycling together for a few days then parting. Then meeting up by coincidence several weeks later.

Think this has been covered here: viewtopic.php?t=108977

If you're doing it by weight the LHT will certainly win by a mile. If you're doing it by individual units sold maybe not...

And my third and final comment on this important subject:

Mrs Hufty, who has more and longer hair than me, reports that she doesn't like shampoo bars at all as she definitely has to use a conditioner afterwards to get her hair feeling like it would do normally. Which explains why the bars last so long at home...

And in answer to the original question just use the bars as they are, or get a lather up in your hands then transfer that to your head.

+1 for Friendly Soap shampoo bars. They are much less scented than any Lush product except the tins although this may or may not be an advantage for the cycle tourist. The last Lush shampoo bar I bought had bits in it (flax seeds? goji berries? teasel buds?) which I thought was a bad idea in the shop and yes had to be picked out of my hair.

wearwell wrote:...Don't have front panniers if it's at all hilly - swinging the weight as you go up a hill can be tiring, but no prob coming down or level....

I tour with a four pannier set up and I've no idea what swinging the weight means or what this effect is. If you need/want front panniers, use front panniers. If anything they keep the front end down on sharper gradients.

Having done a few tours in Scotland and Norway I take a different view about wet tents and clothes. I don't see what the issue is about a wet tent - stuff it in a pannier wet in the morning, put it up in the evening. A damp inner will soon dry out. Re clothes, I would work on the assumption that you won't be able to dry them it's just a bonus if you can. So have stuff that is okay to wear when wet which for me is merino wool tops and socks, cycle sandals, Buffalo mitts. IME waterproof gloves and waterproof socks are a pain - they keep water in just as much as they keep water out so once they're wet they can stay wet for days.

Petrol stoves are not dangerous I use mine all the time.

Great, as predicted it's another tedious multipage thread where people who enjoy arguing the toss over Brexit post stuff up that other people don't read. Exactly nobody will change their mind.

...something about that bus....

...something about democracy....

...something about panniers....

Oh no that last one would never get a look in on a cycling forum it's too contentious.

Great, as predicted it's another tedious multipage thread where people who enjoy arguing the toss over Brexit post stuff up that other people don't read. Exactly nobody will change their mind.

...something about that bus....

...something about democracy....

...something about panniers....

Oh no that last one would never get a look in on a cycling forum it's too contentious.

Oldjohnw wrote:

hufty wrote:Isn't there a long running Brexit thread in the Tea Shop for this sort of thing? Let's exercise some self-control and not pollute other sections of the forum.

Er, this page is about Br***t.

Exactly - I was suggesting keeping all the spurious Brexit stuff together in one thread on one section of the forum rather than have it popping up here there and everywhere. Anyway I guess I don't have to read it, and of course after Brexit I won't be able to read it, eh, catastrophisers?

Isn't there a long running Brexit thread in the Tea Shop for this sort of thing? Let's exercise some self-control and not pollute other sections of the forum.

Thirdcrank: A quick scan of your pdf shows that a Sigg bottle complies easily with regulations.
Radek: Yes a petrol pump nozzle fits into the neck of a Sigg.

Ignore all the people that say you'll die in a fireball if you as much as unscrew the top of your Sigg bottle, or that your food will be contaminated by the fumes and you will die (due to... The Additives ). The subject of petrol as a cooking fuel often inflames people on this forum. I'm still here to post and I use my petrol stove loads.

The easiest way to fill up is from an unattended pump where you put your card in first, but these aren't so common in the UK. So the thing I do is go up to someone filling their car, fuel bottle in one hand, two £1 coins in the other, and ask them to slop a bit of fuel in my bottle as part of their fill. Never had a refusal. This gets round the 2 litre minimum thing and the attendant-refusing-to-start-the-pump-for-someone-without-a-car thing. A Sigg bottle is an approved container for petrol storage, but to avoid the need for discussion I wouldn't wave it around where the attendant can see it and don't choose the pump nearest the window!

Re primer, whilst you're at the petrol station, I suggest a tin of lighter fuel eg Zippo or Swan as it comes in a convenient tin with squirty nozzle. Have also been told that alcohol hand sanitiser gel can be used but I've never tried this.

The child in the "Join Cycle UK" advert has the straps so loose that he can push his hat back and all his forehead is showing - does that count as not wearing a helmet?