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you can get karrimor aspen ones for £20 on sports direct,only touble is its sports direct

Thanks for all the interesting answers folks,i usually always keep my drivetrain in good order as I use by bike a lot but slipped a bit lately,thinking of it the chain is quite new so I think i'll just take it off and give it a scrub with some degreaser before going down the petrol route,i've thought about those chain cleaning devices in the past,food for thought there.

Hi folks ,my chain .chainrings and cassette need a good scrub as my bike is a daily user and I haven't been as up on the cleaning lately,anyway anyone soak their chain/cassette in petrol?(have some in a can that's why i'm asking),I seem to remember I did it before and it got a bit grumbly after and took a long time to get properly lubricated again,so is it a good idea?

Thorn XTC.end of thread,well what do you know that's just what I have,well I never ,guess there could be lots of answers and they would all be right in their own way.

That bike looks terrible,on joking that's just my green eyed monster talking ,it looks amazing,i'd sell my granny for one of those.good luck with the trip.

I met that aussie couple in Plymouth ferry terminal and spent a little bit of time with them in roscoff on the first day of one of my tours,they didnt half carry a lot of very nice kit,nice couple and glad they did what they set out to do.

Bikepacking is people who have to buy everything titanium and camp somewhere where they are still in sight of their vw t5 a team van ,i'm joking of course.

I had a wildcountry tent for years and it was brilliant so when it came to a replacement I thought I would be loyal to them,bad move,the new tent had a snapped pole after a few nights and the stitching was terrible,gutted to see how much the quality had dropped,or maybe I was just unlucky.

Thanks mercalia

Theres a guy on here who posts thread with lots of pics etc about touring sicily,just type sicily into the search function,i just looked and the guy is called Conrad,might be some info on his posts or you could maybe message him and pick his brains.

If i had a thorn xtc -26" 135mm OLN wheels,deore triple chainset with external b.b.,orbit XLII 1/1/8TH headset ,would I correct in thinking these would all swap over with no hidden suprises?

Just browsing on Brittany ferries website for a ferry at the end of may and there is no bicycle option? there is the option when looking at Portsmouth -Santander ,I took my bike on the Santander-Portsmouth ferry when doing roscoff to Santander with no problems before ,so why isn't there the option for the bilbao route? .Only thinking things over at the moment so haven't phoned up to check,just thought i'd ask on here out of curiosity really.

I just use a wireless cateye velo fixed to top of one fork leg,lasted me years so far,cant believe you have paid a tenner for that old thing!!!

Is that the afan valley road to glyncorrwg? theres a brilliant cycle path npt 20 yards from there,i was on it today,i'm guessing it cant be that road but it looks like it

I've filled up my bottles out of the tap in French cemetaries tons of times,infact it became a regular thing to look out for them,found them very handy.and never had any ill effects what so ever.I just presumed that as it came from the tap it was plummed into the same source as all the other taps in the villages.