Like you I have gone back to my offroad roots, not rode my road bike in 3 years I think. Just in the process of going Rohloff on my MTB hardtail bikepacker/do everything bike. Being a fair weather camper these days .......... I'm keen to try a hammock, off to the bay to look. ;-)
@@pedallinraw I've prevaricated on this for some time ! Theres a web page that converts everything to "Gear inches" I run 3x8 atm with a spread of 17 to 105 gear inches, although its mega rare for me to use the largest ring of the 3x. After playing with the Rohloff settings , I have settled for 34/16, this gives a good spread of 16 to 86 gear inches which is ideal for the type of ridding I do. I would think SJS are on your doorstep ? and they are the place for Rohloff. I've picked up most of my parts used from the bay and bought a few bits from SJS and got some advice. Shout if you decide to go this route and need any help, as if took me a good while to get my head round the options.
I was thinking about it,i’ve took it on the train a good while ago,you need to book a space apparently and there are only about four spaces for bikes i think!?….🤔🧐
@@pedallinraw Yes, often you need to book and there is 2 or 4 spaces per vagon. I rode train twice to and from London last year. Busses was a hastle thou because there is no bicycle policy on local busses in Briston area, some drivers was understanding and some militant.
@@corvus400 It’s just daft and made so difficult imho,some time ago when i was in Colorado all the buses up in the rockies had bicycle mounts on the front bumpers of the buses,you’d just wait for a bus then hang it on the front….job done….ive seen people catch trains out of NYC and they have like a whole car just for bicycles….🤷🏼♂️….🙂👍🏻
Still at it nice bike steel frame great little set up ya have there assuming it around Glastonbury ?oil change diesel didn’t know you were a mechanic ?last time I checked in you were in Spain with your g irl friend not sure how long ago that was?
@@CORRIGEEN71 Up in the local hills across from Wales 😉These bikes are very nice but you pay a little with the extra weight of the steel so i’m playing around with how and what i carry my gear in….It was Portugal which is a great place…☺️👍🏻
@@CORRIGEEN71 More of a self taught mechanic…learn a few things from friends too….if it has been bolted together then it can be took apart and re-assembled with ease right ?! 🤗🙂👍🏻
@pedallinraw /corrigeen here yes when we cycled to Nigeria from ireland in 2012. We got bikes made up. Choose the surely long haul.frames. , very heavy for sure it's du
@@pedallinraw I was pleased to hear a cuckoo when you were panning around the scenery. It's not common in a dense town. Having said that, someone in this built up area seems to have gone all "The good life" and gotten a cockerel that crows noisily; but it is lazy and doesn't get till midday. Years ago, Someone had one one street over from us and every morning at dawn, it would without fail, crow it's head off and wake the neighbourhood up. Well one day he started up the song of his people... "AREEE-REE-AH.." And then suddenly it made a noise like it was grabbed by the throat, gargled, and then silence.... Never heard that crow again. I assume someone climbed the fence and rang its neck. 😔
@@folkloreofbeing I’d have not guessed the cuckoo….ohh btw i did hear an owl…once i was cycling can’t remember if it was day or dusk but this huge owl flew down beside me then off across a field…. I was told a story once that a workman was in a house using this smelly glue and the fumes ended up killing the budgie ….so this workman used the glue and stuck the budgie back on its perch …😮…..
@@pedallinraw indeed, it’s so cosy. If it’s windy, you’re best to put a windproof layer over the underquilt so that heat isn’t being robbed, but never any need for a pad. Decent down underquilt and top quilt or sleeping bag (opened out), and I also have a down balaclava from IceFlame, a great cosy addition. 👍🏻ps Tukeke hammocks are great value and made of decent parachute material, you can find them from £6 and upward, 12 footer with diagonal lay = max comfort, but 11 foot is plenty for most folk up to 6’3” high. Had mine for some years now, spend the money saved on a decent down underquilt! 🏴👍🏻🥃
Bikepacking, stealth camping and real talk. Great vid Praw 💯
Was fun,forgot it’s still just out of May and was a little colder late at night than i bargained for ☹️👍🏻
Nice vid...keep them coming 😅
😁👍🏻
Like you I have gone back to my offroad roots, not rode my road bike in 3 years I think. Just in the process of going Rohloff on my MTB hardtail bikepacker/do everything bike.
Being a fair weather camper these days .......... I'm keen to try a hammock, off to the bay to look. ;-)
How do you choose the gearing for a Rohloff? If i wanted 11-52 ? can they make what you want? …what one/gearing are you going for ? 🧐
@@pedallinraw I've prevaricated on this for some time !
Theres a web page that converts everything to "Gear inches"
I run 3x8 atm with a spread of 17 to 105
gear inches, although its mega rare for me to use the largest ring of the 3x.
After playing with the Rohloff settings , I have settled for 34/16, this gives a good spread of 16 to 86 gear inches which is ideal for the type of ridding I do.
I would think SJS are on your doorstep ? and they are the place for Rohloff.
I've picked up most of my parts used from the bay and bought a few bits from SJS and got some advice.
Shout if you decide to go this route and need any help, as if took me a good while to get my head round the options.
Tukeke 12’ hammocks available from £6 - very comfortable and good quality material. Long enough to lay diagonal across for a flat lay. 😊
shugemery is the man if it’s hammock advice you’re after👍
Awesome camping setup! Do you take this bicycle on the trains?
I was thinking about it,i’ve took it on the train a good while ago,you need to book a space apparently and there are only about four spaces for bikes i think!?….🤔🧐
@@pedallinraw Yes, often you need to book and there is 2 or 4 spaces per vagon. I rode train twice to and from London last year. Busses was a hastle thou because there is no bicycle policy on local busses in Briston area, some drivers was understanding and some militant.
@@corvus400 It’s just daft and made so difficult imho,some time ago when i was in Colorado all the buses up in the rockies had bicycle mounts on the front bumpers of the buses,you’d just wait for a bus then hang it on the front….job done….ive seen people catch trains out of NYC and they have like a whole car just for bicycles….🤷🏼♂️….🙂👍🏻
Still at it nice bike steel frame great little set up ya have there assuming it around Glastonbury ?oil change diesel didn’t know you were a mechanic ?last time I checked in you were in Spain with your g irl friend not sure how long ago that was?
@@CORRIGEEN71 Up in the local hills across from Wales 😉These bikes are very nice but you pay a little with the extra weight of the steel so i’m playing around with how and what i carry my gear in….It was Portugal which is a great place…☺️👍🏻
@@CORRIGEEN71 More of a self taught mechanic…learn a few things from friends too….if it has been bolted together then it can be took apart and re-assembled with ease right ?! 🤗🙂👍🏻
@pedallinraw /corrigeen here yes when we cycled to Nigeria from ireland in 2012. We got bikes made up. Choose the surely long haul.frames. , very heavy for sure it's du
Comment for the algo.
Hi there. Envious of you being able to pedal off into the wilderness
It was nice…once i’d actually motivated myself to go for it…..heard foxes i think and also seen a bat 🙂
@@pedallinraw I was pleased to hear a cuckoo when you were panning around the scenery. It's not common in a dense town.
Having said that, someone in this built up area seems to have gone all "The good life" and gotten a cockerel that crows noisily; but it is lazy and doesn't get till midday.
Years ago, Someone had one one street over from us and every morning at dawn, it would without fail, crow it's head off and wake the neighbourhood up.
Well one day he started up the song of his people...
"AREEE-REE-AH.."
And then suddenly it made a noise like it was grabbed by the throat, gargled, and then silence....
Never heard that crow again.
I assume someone climbed the fence and rang its neck. 😔
@@folkloreofbeing I’d have not guessed the cuckoo….ohh btw i did hear an owl…once i was cycling can’t remember if it was day or dusk but this huge owl flew down beside me then off across a field….
I was told a story once that a workman was in a house using this smelly glue and the fumes ended up killing the budgie ….so this workman used the glue and stuck the budgie back on its perch …😮…..
@@pedallinraw
"it's not dead, it's resting it eyes." 🐦💤
A down underquilt is well worth the investment, you’d never go back to the pad. 😊
Do you use a hammock with just an under quilt and no pad? in Winter too ? 🤔
@@pedallinraw indeed, it’s so cosy. If it’s windy, you’re best to put a windproof layer over the underquilt so that heat isn’t being robbed, but never any need for a pad. Decent down underquilt and top quilt or sleeping bag (opened out), and I also have a down balaclava from IceFlame, a great cosy addition. 👍🏻ps Tukeke hammocks are great value and made of decent parachute material, you can find them from £6 and upward, 12 footer with diagonal lay = max comfort, but 11 foot is plenty for most folk up to 6’3” high. Had mine for some years now, spend the money saved on a decent down underquilt! 🏴👍🏻🥃