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Bring back the man with the red flag walking in front.

Fantastic adventure, Mathew. Thanks

Did your Aran ferries trip then to Kennacraig when I did my ride to Orwell's Barnhill on Jura a few years ago.

Where is home?

I knew Jimmy ( Philip Jewel) well, he climbed with the cave and crag club from Birmingham. If I remember rightly he fell off soloing Poor Man's Peuterey on Tremadoc as a quick route back to the club hut at Pant Ifan in 1987. Jimmy took me on my first ever rock climb at Dow Crag in the late 70's...

This is an great adventure. Making me very excited for my own trip to the Outer Hebrides a week tomorrow.

Try used engine oil. That'll stop it rotting and if all else fails it will burn well.

I am the reverse of that in the 80's I was indeed the grim faced lycra clad, lots of effort cyclist. Now, when riding back from the farm shop on my ex post office bike, dressed in whatever I put on when I got up, 6 miles an hour will suffice. So my sturmey archer drum brakes are ideal.

B17 all the way. Ride it in and you will have the comfiest saddle known to man. I have rode tens of thousands of miles on them. no problems at all

My father gave up cycling in his eighties started again at 90 he is 103 this year, alas no longer cycling but still as bright as a button. well pe*d off by being locked down at present. So expect to see you putting us right in another 25 years. As for your advice on the government you are spot...

this explains it

Bunkem! Most emergency services at the time used Pye Westminster sets which had very good selectivity. Their frequency allocation was 66 to 88 MHz. CB allocation is 27 MHz. Very little chance of interference. The big problem for the UK was that the 27 MHz band was already licensed legally to...

Started racing when I was 17 packed in when I was 60. Always shaved my legs. No idea why. Official reason is to make massages less painful. Never had a massage. Think it is just fashion for club cyclists. Had a few crashes shaving never prevented those, or made them heal quicker. And you know...

Beat me to it Flecc

butterfly bars laid flat give lots of options This article explains the different options with bars. Handlebars For Bicycle Touring

Try Longtaffs they do all sorts of special parts. http://www.longstaffcycles.com/

Nice to see that old Georg Simon Ohm is being remembered. Or is it Woy Hodgson ;)

I came on the forum tonight to post something about the London Nocturne. I do not bother reading the forum much these days, for many of the same reasons that Dave(op) mentions in his post. After reading this thread, I could not be bothered to post about the Nocturne. So like Dave, I will cycle...

I have no idea what you can base the fact that london is the safest place to cycle in the UK. Safer than rural Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands and on and on. You are having a laugh saying London was the safest place to cycle. The mixture of idiot cycle...

In it's day it looked a lot better than that. However looks are not everything and it proved to have many design faults.