Alan_tbt

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• Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 11 hours, 36 minutes

  

  It seems a bit odd that the photos on the site show the pack used with w bike with a rack fitted.
  Any thoughts on the top tube bag? I can’t really see the inside very well. On my Restrap TT bag the net inside bits have collapsed and don’t really hold things up unless the bag is full.

• Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

  in Bikes & Bits • 4 days, 8 hours

  

  https://www.instagram.com/p/B1PJ35Llwbj/­?igshid=m0rf9kjuc055

• OT Email forwarding

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 11 hours

  

  We were previous users of Tiscali/TalkTalk as our broadband provider. We have 3 email addresses with them that we use regularly. We have subsequently moved to BT but retained the original email addresses.
  Today we have received an email from them saying it’ll cost £5 a month to retain these addresses since we are no longer customers.

  I think I’d like to move to email forwarding and pick from the free domains list.

  Are there any recommendations for which service to use? It seems a minefield.

  TIA

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• Tubeless Tyres -"saying the same things about tubeless tyres over and over again" Fucking read the fucking first fucking post.

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 5 days, 9 hours

  

  I normally make sure anything that is likely to prevent a good seal gets removed, this normally involvea nothing more difficult than using my thumb nail to lift the old sealant off.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 5 days, 13 hours

  

  Info here on cycling in the Downs
  http://www.bikedowns.co.uk/

• Cricket

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 18 hours

  

  Rooooooout

• Cricket

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 14 hours

  

  Listening to TMS and what Andrew Strauss (and his wife Ruth) have been through is really quite awful.

  Edit : should of course include Glen McGrath in the above.

  2nd edit. I’m working from home tomorrow but I feel a red shirt day coming on.

• Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 6 days, 18 hours

  

  Surely a market for this now? A laptop and clothes friendly sqr bag would be ace. I have a carradry and sqr slim and neither is ideal. Have gone back to a front pannier but that’s not perfect either.

• Front rack suggestions

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 6 days, 19 hours

  

  Did you get it new? I think got those with my Tara (although there’s a chance they came with the rear rack). Needed them on my GdF to clear the QR too.