House now suprisingly more empty
Aidy
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... I should fill it with more bikes, right?
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Yes. Next thread!Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.0
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Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.0
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Always Tyred wrote:Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.
I've recently taken up kayaking, I missed the rowing season, and can't really be arsed going to 4-5 sessions a week. I love it! I want a touring kayak, immediately!0 -
Always Tyred wrote:Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.
Hrm.
There's a plan.
Silly Commuter Kayak Racing? - There's even a canal that goes nearly all the way to work...0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.
I've recently taken up kayaking, I missed the rowing season, and can't really be arsed going to 4-5 sessions a week. I love it! I want a touring kayak, immediately!
Fortunately, I live in Scotland and can rent it all for £10 a day.
Rowing is not equal to kayaking. Water is a mere coincidential commonality.0 -
Always Tyred wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.
I've recently taken up kayaking, I missed the rowing season, and can't really be arsed going to 4-5 sessions a week. I love it! I want a touring kayak, immediately!
Fortunately, I live in Scotland and can rent it all for £10 a day.
Rowing is not equal to kayaking. Water is a mere coincidential commonality.
I have many dry bags, and a bilge pump (which I've never used), and a couple of drysuits... sailing FTW.0 -
Um, I can do the dry bags bit.
I'm confused as to where I hang panniers on a kayak, though.0 -
UndercoverElephant wrote:You've reached the S part of N+1, where S=number of bikes required for separation?
Not quite
I'm wondering what S is, though. N+1 is easy to calculate. How do you calculate S?0 -
Always Tyred wrote:Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.
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I have a separate kit room, and still I have a kayak in the living room...
(yes, I do have a 4-bed house to myself. and yes, since that situation arose the number of bikes, kayaks and ancillary gear has multiplied)Misguided Idealist0 -
Fireblade96 wrote:(yes, I do have a 4-bed house to myself. and yes, since that situation arose the number of bikes, kayaks and ancillary gear has multiplied)
Yeah, the number of bikes I own did literally double shortly after I bought a house.0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Take up another hobby. I recommend kayking, as this requires a lot of kit. The volume requirements of anything that floats are easily as great as cycling, in my experience.
I've recently taken up kayaking, I missed the rowing season, and can't really be arsed going to 4-5 sessions a week. I love it! I want a touring kayak, immediately!
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Oh, no no no ! A touring kayak is the hybrid of the kayaking world. You'll grow tired of it in weeks. Save yourself the expense and waste of time, and immediately buy:
a whitewater / river running kayak - for big water
a playboat - for smaller whitewater.
an open canoe - for touring with lots of gear and making life harder for yourself when kayaking seems too easy
[/tongue-in-cheek]
There, look at all the money I saved you ;-)Misguided Idealist0 -
can you get a folding bike in a touring kayak?0
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Big Wib wrote:can you get a folding bike in a touring kayak?
Unlikely - it would need to fold very small to squeeze into a touring kayak.
You could definitely get one in an open canoe.Misguided Idealist0 -
Can you get a folding kayak on a bike, that is more important surely.0
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I've been wrestling with just this problem. I want to do Westminster to Devizes by folding bike, towing a trailer with a fold up canoe on it, unfold canoe, put bike in canoe and canoe back. SURELY this must be possible? But it sounds like it won't work on a kayak as the weight of the bike will destabilise the kayak and I need an open canoe - and I don't know if you can get folding versions? Also, I have read that inflatable canoes are rubbish.... So much research and so much kit (potentially)!http://www.georgesfoundation.org
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mroli wrote:I've been wrestling with just this problem. I want to do Westminster to Devizes by folding bike, towing a trailer with a fold up canoe on it, unfold canoe, put bike in canoe and canoe back. SURELY this must be possible? But it sounds like it won't work on a kayak as the weight of the bike will destabilise the kayak and I need an open canoe - and I don't know if you can get folding versions? Also, I have read that inflatable canoes are rubbish.... So much research and so much kit (potentially)!
Floating trailer with wheels?0 -
What - so you could tow the trailer behind the canoe/kaya as well - ha - trailer for the bike, then trailer for the canoe? Not sure about "drag" though.....http://www.georgesfoundation.org
http://100hillsforgeorge.blogspot.com/
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You lot are so stoopid:
I think that's everything....Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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I used to race Kayaks as a Junior, was in the GB junior squad too, don't know how I was shite.
I used this actual boat for a season in the late 90's
That's not me in it though, that's my old mate Greg, he wasn't shite.
Lit, there's loads of canoe clubs down london way and a really healthy marathon and sprint racing scene, I wan't to get back into marathon racing, the tactics are a lot like cycling I was I'd realised that when I was racing I think I'd be much better at it know.
I met some lovely ladies through canoeing, slightly muscley shoulders tho, ho hum.Saracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
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Aidy, before you add yet more bikes to fill the house I think you should have a SCR End of Summer barbecue plus breakfast/lunch the next day for those too filled to go home that night. Good idea?
I can bring a bottle of Reggae Reggae sauce for the chicken and two cans of Guinness and as I've got a bad back I've got dibs on the guest room. You HAVE got a guest room right?
August is a quiet month in the office so I have too much time to think about social events0 -
Cafewanda wrote:Aidy, before you add yet more bikes to fill the house I think you should have a SCR End of Summer barbecue plus breakfast/lunch the next day for those too filled to go home that night. Good idea?
I can bring a bottle of Reggae Reggae sauce for the chicken and two cans of Guinness and as I've got a bad back I've got dibs on the guest room. You HAVE got a guest room right?
August is a quiet month in the office so I have too much time to think about social events
If people want to trek out this far, I'm quite happy to0 -
How far is 'this far'?0
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With a spot of tenting in the luxurious gardens mayhaps?Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.0
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Aidy wrote:
careful - a lot of people here don't believe such a place exists...Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
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Kieran_Burns wrote:
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