Recent content by epicyclo

Don't joke about it. I've done just that. Although to be fair it was 72 spoke nipples. I'd noticed an old Peugeot mtb destined for the scrap had hex headed nipples and I though, "Ooh, that would make for an interesting wheel build". Shortly after harvesting the hex headed nipples the burden of...

Especially if you continue over the hill to Achnasheen. :)

I'm dead. Or maybe it's just I smell that way...

I blame Greta Thunberg with her Global Warming. Weather has been too tropical. A Surly 1x1 with 2.75 Dirt Wizards is about 90% as effective as a fat bike with the weather we've been getting the last few years. I even used a 29er in the last 'Puffer. Roll on a decent freezing winter with howling...

Oi! We're from Harris, not Lewis... :)

I've had a few sphincter contracting moments on that descent a few times. :) The family in Harris eventually requested me not to ride it. My wife's aged uncle used to get seriously concerned because he knew of a few serious injuries and maybe a death. However the track looks like it's had a...

A bow saw and a secateurs is all you need. Since the gales, I've cleared most of the trails in the Leanaig woods near me. They looked a bit like your picture. As for your Mad Max style, I've experience with that. I used to clear my running trails in Oz after Cyclones. I ran carrying a machete...

Regard my idea as a filler, not a replacement for organised rides.

All that peat bog, supposed pristine wilderness, yet on that small mountain in the background is the remains of a fort that would have required a population of thousands to build it, service it and or garrison it. That land would not have looked like that a few hundred years ago, before the...

I have a suggestion. Seeing as it's difficult for us to organise a ride with us all together, but how about a ride along the lines of Global FatBike Day? Instead of us having to meet up we do a themed ride, each in our own area, and within a given week or weekend. For example, see how many...

StrathPuffer course has been cleared.

Up here that means 40 of sleet... :)

I'm not going to be able to make it. Sorry.

I grew up in the Rough Stuff era, so dropbars on an offroad bike were a given. This is my Dawes Cougar mtb (531ST) modified into an 1980s gravel bike if gravel had been thing back then. (i.e. it's my Rough Stuff Bike) I used the parts I thought Dawes would have used if they had built a bike...

That's a nice functional looking build.