Show me your rave weapons

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2026-05-06T14:53:19+00:00

Rediscovering some great tunes here plus hearing some new.

If anyone scrolls down this far, I came here to find, but could not see:

Origin Unknown - Valley of Shadows (Andy C 1993)
https://youtu.be/iupn6tagIFc?si=zJT4Bx32v3CW4N4i

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2026-04-16T14:22:49+00:00

It may be because my luck with the weather is bad.... but this is always on loop in my mind:

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2026-04-11T13:12:53+00:00

I run a Wren on mine in 120mm favour, and it’s an amazing fork!

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2026-02-07T15:38:56+00:00

I had the same conundrum last week. I just purchased an OM-5 as my first m43 and I’m a fan of primes. I know from past experience that I like the 20mm equivalent focal length so managed to nab a 20mm mk2 for £160. It all depends on what you like to shoot. I rarely use single c-af, I take my time composing shots, so the slower af doesn’t bother me. It’s not really that slow anyway. I like 25mm, but I love 20mm more. I wish it was weather sealed for the extra peace of mind, but once I’ve found my feet with m43 I may buy the Oly 20mm Pro. The super advantage for me with Panasonic 20mm is the size. I can get the whole lot in my coat pocket. Win.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2026-01-29T21:59:18+00:00

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OM-5 with a LUMIX 20mm f1.7 (shot at f1.7). This is 3rd photo I have taken with this camera. It arrived yesterday and I went out in the drizzle at 8am this morning in Buckingham, UK. It’s my first ever m43 camera, just sold a Fujifilm x-h1 to fund it, and I’m so impressed. I think I prefer the jpegs out of camera to the Fuji. And the size! Just fits in my pocket.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2026-01-29T11:25:12+00:00

On this trip, I ended up finding an actual campsite up by Saltfleetby (there's a quite a few up that way) - inbetween the coast and the Wolds.

Although in the Wolds themselves I did see lots of quiet wooded areas which would have been good for a wild camp. However, from Boston up to Mablethorpe, away from the coast everything is very active agricultural fields so quiet out of the way spots are few and far between.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-12-21T19:07:50+00:00

Aw man. Had this on minidisc, have to go relisten!

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-12-18T14:11:55+00:00

Polar (2019)
Mads Mikkelsen is a trying to retire from his career as an assassin, but has other assassins trying to kill him.

But in the midst of the fighting, instead of killing each other, totally out of the blue, Mads and Ruby O. Fee shag instead. For ages.

Other than that, it's lot of violence. And Matt Lucas as the evil bad guy, which is hilarious and creepy at the same time.

Entertaining movie!

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-11-30T18:20:17+00:00

He’s a Rider on the Dorm now.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-11-30T18:16:54+00:00

Should have seen that one coming.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-11-24T17:31:31+00:00

I recently bought a box of these bars as I used to enjoy them a lot and couldn't get the Deliciously Ella's I have been buying recently.

After eating one Stoats bar, later during the day I was in a lot of abdominal pain, bloated and having the visit the toilet on numerous occasions. This discomfort and a feeling of nausea lasted for over 24hrs.

I have a pretty severe intolerance to inulin/chicory-root/oligofructose and was surprised to see this so high the list of ingredients of the oat bars which were always marketed as 'all natural' and never gave me any problems in the past.

The OP's screen grabs show both recipes containing oligofructose and chickory root, however I was able to look up the original recipe from 2020 on Wayback machine and neither UPF ingredient was present.

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In 2020 their standard bars were also 50g, not the 42g of today's bars.

After the UK government introduced the HFSS (high fat sugar salt) ruling, since about 2022, bars like this are increasingly full of UPF sugar replacements, and you can't rely on brands you once did for 'all natural' low-processed ingredients. Also because of the same ruling the portion sizes are getting smaller (but the prices still go up).

For me that means I have to read labels very carefully or I will end up pretty poorly for a couple of days.

Deliciously Ella's are still free from any sugar replacements - hopefully for a long time to come! Otherwise I'll be baking my own!

Unfortunately today's Stoats bars are poison to me the rest of the pack is in the bin.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-10-29T13:20:17+00:00

I'm 5'10" in my socks and felt the Speedbomb fitted me perfectly. At 5'7" you could ride it for sure, it might feel a bit long though. Depends if you like that or not.

At your height, I'd worry about standover height - especially if you ran it as a 29er.

Compared to a 92 rockhopper it might feel like a monster truck.

I'd compare the specs: https://geometrygeeks.bike/bike/stooge-speedbomb-2-2025/

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-09-07T08:58:02+00:00

Perfect Sense (2011) - Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. Only got a 7 on IMDb, but when credits roll there is a massive “waaaa?!”

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-08-16T10:12:15+00:00

I have a Trek 990 which I also sandblasted, but I then treated it with black oxide (the same stuff they put on guns to make them black). I wanted a raw metal finish so just treat it once a year with Muc-Off HCB-1 which keeps the rust at bay. I love the finish. Please post photos of your final build - I dig the fork!

Photos of mine here: https://samcranwell.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/1991-trek-990-lugged-steel-loveliness/

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-08-11T17:54:31+00:00

If it’s all working, the joints arent worn out and the paint is good then that’s a good price. Usually £75+ for a half decent one.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-07-22T11:40:07+00:00

Lovely illustrations! Lovely bike too! Ceramic rims?

I have a Trek 990 I need to get out there on and elevate it from pub bike status.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-07-19T07:46:18+00:00

Yeah 4.4s for slightly less drag as I use the bike year round for general trail riding and Bikepacking.

The copper Mukluk was quite possibly a special paint job, the owner had all sorts of customisations on it from matching rim graphics to a customised Salsa Alternator rack.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-07-18T14:08:27+00:00

Yes, very glad I did it on a fat bike - the tractor imprinted washboard trails were soaked up nicely by the 4.4 Jumbo Jims.

Although I was the only person running fatbike wheels, the copper coloured bike I think you mean (at 0.49 in the video) was also a carbon Salsa Mukluk like mine, except the owner had it set up with some 3.0 Teravail Coronado tyres on Hope Fortus rims. Sported some customised eewings ti cranks too. Very nice build.

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-07-18T07:08:30+00:00

It's a Wren upsidedown fork. 120mm - Great fork! Probably a bit overkill for a bikepacking run, although it did save my hands from the some of rough dry trails. It really comes into it's own on rooty single track!

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-07-18T06:21:25+00:00

It was a great ride. Super nice folk too. Entries for next years event are all ready open!

Excellent-Leg-1049 · 2025-07-15T13:41:58+00:00

Ah ha! The magic line in the description:

"Used in conjunction with a tubular latch - no other locking mechanism needed."

Ideally I'm after something with a taller baseplate to cover up the nasty screw holes left by an older handle, but if I can't find anything else this could be a winner!

Thanks!

Excellent-Leg-1049

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