[Closed] The bimble thread.

Any tales from Bimbleton this week?

I was planning to bimble this afternoon but I would have been blown off the bike so I had a walk instead.

I did [url= https://www.strava.com/activities/792372881/shareable_images/photo_based/145628/1/98ebbc02-b399-4b93-b09f-270830a15e65?hl=en-GB&v=1480780810 ]this[/url] lovely ride last weekend to Windsor. Stopped at my bro's for a coffee and then a pint in Windsor. Off work again tomorrow so going to bimble to a cafe for lunch.
Was planning to go to Hever Castle but the train strike makes it risky to be back for the school run.

Not seen this thread before. Wonderful, well done. I'll be reading from the beginning.

Fans of this thread will enjoy "steveshairylegs" instagram feed. perfect bimble set up he's got too. Big tyres, guards, front rack bag, flask and everything. Takes a very good photograph too. Lots of them, in fact.

Talk of bimbling and jump spots reminds me of this absolute beaut:

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The more you look the better it gets. Probably the only thing it's good for is sitting on with your flask of coffee and your sandwiches. You're certainly not going to be getting in anyone's way!

Not been out bimbling for a while, a mixture of Arthritis and painting wooden floors has done for me for a week or two. 🙁

The good news is that I can indulge my other great hobby of pottering. 🙂

Fair bit of bimbling and food on my [url= https://www.instagram.com/dan_kujawski/ ]instagram[/url]

What bimble savouries for a vegetarian? I was thinking a ploughmans sandwich but I think it might be a bit too soggy by the time I bimblemunch.

I do massive home made falafels. They look exactly like scotch eggs, so fellow bimblers will be none the wiser. Also do my own vegetable pasties.
Packet of ginger nuts or oreos and some skittles for pudding.
Ultimate vegan bimbling!!

Cheese and onion rolls! Mmmm

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A frosty bimble around Delamere on Sunday

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Can i join you guys for pies, falafel and mincing? Seems much more fun than having your cock nearly ripped off.

I think I bimble..... I don't rush and I like to look at the country side... wrist is too broke to jump....

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This is soon to become a rigid drop bar bimble boat....

Cheers, Steve

Like the other steve's, steve?

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Indeed! I'm keeping the IGH though....

Cheers, Steve

Singular's do handle the bimble exceptionally well. Here's mine, in winter and summer plumage. Winter's looking a bit serious with the double bottles though...

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Multi-booze options on the summer build: wisecracker stem spacer/bottle opener and ahearne hard stuff flask cage.

I'm keeping the IGH though....

Quite right! You wouldn't want maintenance cutting into nap time or cloudspotting time, would you?

Indeed, cleaning a cassette eats into post ride beer sampling.

Cheers, Steve

No bimbling of late for me I'm afraid though I did walk the dog back to that jump spot I found: it's utterly enormous and far beyond my capabilities. I start getting nervous if my tyres look like they are due to leave the ground.

Genuine question: any recommendations for a mid ride hip flask? The various ones I have tried all leak which is a huge waste of whisky/sloe gin/damson gin.

[url= http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/ahearne-spaceman-hip-flask-cage--holster-and-hip-flask-option-411-p.asp ]this do?[/url]

I like that. I like that a lot. However, no idea if the hip flask is any good.

Aha! [url= http://www.outdoorgb.com/p/Adventure_Stainless_Steel_Flask_0_14L/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=directory&utm_content=GBR&currency=GBP&country=GBR&SelectedBundle=183913&SelectedItem=677669&gclid=CjwKEAiAg5_CBRDo4o6e4o3NtG0SJAB-IatY66npcJkBsbi6HFGf93LW-opocis5CJtydXAE8plckxoCuLTw_wcB ]Stanley Hip Flask[/url]

There used to be a member on here, Southlakes, who would post up links to ride reports with photos of cakes and homemade sandwiches in Tupperware boxes 😀 Hasn't posted for some time.
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Stanley Hip Flask

I like to take a meths stove when bimbling. It means you can stop for a cuppa as soon as the urge takes you. I also like a cooked breakfast in the Surrey wilderness.

Alpha, I've got that Ahearne spaceman cage. It's a lovely thing. Perfectly sprung (the review on Charlie's page is mine). And the flask I got with it from Charlie is whisky tight. I've had it in pockets and bags as well as the cage, and not lost a drop.

just been pointed to this thread. been away for some top bimbleing, or pottering as i like to call my type of cycling nowadays.

me and the good lady had a top couple of days in the lake, pottering around grasmere, high close, langdale, elterwater, coniston, tarn howes, ambleside, and back along loughrigg. a top potter.

highlights were the wife riding loughrigg on her tourer, the ale at the brittania in elterwater and fish and chips in tweedies bar in grasmere.

bimbles/potters are the future......... 😀

Welcome to the club ton (and Mrs ton). Always room for more in bimbletown 🙂

Good recommendation on the Ahearne flask. I'll drop some hints for the wife to pick up for Christmas/birthday.

out for a pootle today with another doddery old fool off here.

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MsWife and i bimbled over to Bradfield, where we had lunch, and icecream, then a snooze under a tree next to the cricket pitch. it was bloody great.

Snoozing next to a cricket pitch, whilst a game is on, always features during my bimbles in the warmer months

Can I just say that I am delighted that this thread just keeps meandering on and on! 😀

Coxwold looks at bit damp Tony..

cricket, a soothing accompaniment to doing nothing.

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Getting there with my bitza bimble build.... mostly made of bits I had in the shed and roughly thrown together one handed.... Schwalbe Big Apples were not easy to get on and I think I need to put some 700CC tubes in as my 29er ones are blowing off the tyre at 30psi.... but better that it was.

Could need a bigger chainring for road 32T might be a bit spinny..... but worth a try, it's quite hilly here... I have a 36T round but was thinking 38T or 40T

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Cheers, Steve

We had a great bimble out for tea and cake this morning, first time we've both been able to get out on the bikes for aaaaaages, what with The Mange and The Lurgy we've both had. It was lovely, lovely, lovely.

We did a local cricket match earlier this year and managed to wobble back home after a few glasses of whatever the hell it was that they were serving 😆

I killed this thread 😆

DNR?

Nah, were all just bimbling along by reading not participating....

Been doing a fair bit of "bimmbling" the past 3-4yrs for various reason(parents unwell/passing away)to the detriment of what "fitness I used to posses! Went out on the lbs night ride last night and was left for "dead " by what used to be considered the "slow " group.!!!! I am asthmatic, the cold air and smoke from the village(Ae) fires in the air meant I was using my inhaler a bit more than I should for the first half of the ride. Nearly turned back at the half way point 😥

What rigid forks to turn my Blue Pig into a "bimbler"?????

If MtsT is fit enough come spring we hope to acquire an ebike for her to get out bimbling 🙁

I just ventured into the 'fear of jumps and drop offs' thread, got about 2 or 3 pages in and the images of wheels leaving the trail and sudden drops began to make me feel quite giddy, so I've come here for balance.

Several of the drops even appeared to have perfectly ride-able (but rarely used) chicken runs. Madness.

I'm going to make myself feel better by heading out on the fat bike tonight for a roll along the Downs, Chanctonbury Ring to Devil's Dyke - and ill take my spangly new flask for good measure.

As you were.

Out on the road bike today for an enforced bimble due to ice. Some verrrry slow descending and cornering. 😀

I too also have a new flask- black earl grey ahoy! I enjoyed a mooch out the other morning down to the coastal path for a cuppa and a glyph of the sunrise 😀

Off out now for a spot of bimblocross over to the National Cycling Centre to grab a bell from Evans Cycles. Essential bimble accessory for trips along the canal in search of pubs worth visiting.

I noticed those little clip-on-the-brake-cable bells in Evans earlier this week - lovely and loud ping emitted from them.
If I hadn't been treated to one of the uber pricey niche bells for xmas I would've snapped one up.

Have a great bimble ride planned for Sunday. Pootle to a bothy in Wales with a mate, have a brew and a chat, pootle back again. Not that much off road, not very far, not at all fast, but very nice indeed. Will post a pic of this radness...at some point.

EDIT - on the subject of bells i'm tempted by a posh timber one for the bikepacking 'rig'. I don't like the pitch of cheap little pingers you see...

There's clearly a gap in the market for a bimbell..

Badoom-tish.

faustus - Member

on the subject of bells i'm tempted by a posh timber one for the bikepacking 'rig'. I don't like the pitch of cheap little pingers you see...

I have the original Q/R one and just bought the clamp type one now, which eliminated the one issue I'd had with my original one.

Either way. I'd recommend one.

Just made my pack up for tomorrow's bimble, riding from my house to explore a new area of muddy bridleways and tracks with an OS map, lunch highlight is going to be a huge chunk of Christmas cake!

Skankin_giant - Member
...Schwalbe Big Apples were not easy to get on and I think I need to put some 700CC tubes in as my 29er ones are blowing off the tyre at 30psi...

I usually run mine (2.35") at 20psi. On rough tarmac and gravel that rolls really well.

Have recently found that my bars on my fat bike were a little too low, which seriously hampered my view whilst bimbling.

Have remedied the situation with some bars off of a giant's BMX.

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Not sure the 17 degree backsweep is bimblecore enough.

Don't forget to pack your pork pie knife, you've left it on the table!

That's my patented ESI chunky removal tool.

I usually run mine (2.35") at 20psi. On rough tarmac and gravel that rolls really well.

Good to know, thanks! My bimble build is doing just that..... managed to rig up something for the shifter which will be anything but rapid... just waiting until my hand is free to set the hoods and wrap the bars, might go for a shorter stem as well...

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Cheers, Steve

I was slightly hung over this morning, so didn't do much, but had an invite for late lunch at the parents. Also needed an antidote to the gnar yesterday, took my new bike for an uplift day at the 417 project.

So, same bike, mk2 Solaris, today minus the dropper, and plus my wildcat/alpkit seat bag arrangement with spare clothes, tools and crap.

Points for anyone who can correctly guess location.

7.5 miles, 90% on road, about an hour, I think.

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Went for a bimble exploring the XC ski trails at Clashindarroch. There was no snow I hasten to add. If there had been I'd leave these trails to the skiers who made them. But no point letting them go to waste while we wait for the white stuff, so I packed the flask and set off to bimble.

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More of a plodder myself in fact. But, my last ride was definitely a bimble with a plod or two en route. It is a thoroughly relaxing past time. First ride since early December when the flu bug hit too. In my books, a plod is either a. getting off and pushing or b. slowing to the point of walking/aimlessly drifting which I suppose verges on the bimble. That said, I see a bimble as a collective for a length dependent collection of plods. Might be over thinking this.

EDIT: @Core, that looks like some gnarly singletrack you're taking on there fella, you be careful out there 😀

What an awesome thread!
I've missed bimbling. Currently waiting upon a new wheelset from Superstar components to get the Vagabond back on the road.

Here she is sharing a rum after a bimble excursion.
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And one for #carryshitolympics!
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I haven't been too well since 2017 started! So here is my last bimble in 2016:

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Need to get this cast off so I can start to bimble...... fingers crossed they don't mug me off again tomorrow..... managed to do more work...

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Cheers, Steve

I'm not sure I quite fit in as I didn't take anything with me, but as a way of trying to get out on my bike and enjoy our new surroundings (lived here 13 months and rode 3 times) I decided to follow the canal until I didn't want to anymore then follow it home again.

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I saw some sort of Ibis or Impala in the wild animal park. I waved, it stared.

14 miles, 2 hours, 157ft of elevation gain

bimble-tastic!

@buckster You'd be surprised my friend, that dead level and straight singletrack had been a bit churned up by equestrian bimblers, I had to slow to a real bimblecore 3mph I'd say. Oh, that and the fact I was riding one handed taking photo's..... Sketchy times.

I decided to follow the canal until I didn't want to anymore

The true essence of bimbling 🙂

Ps. Get well soon NM.

Thanks RP

@Core, one handed you say, hm, ...impressive skills, could this be 'free-bimbling' in action? You sir are a pioneer of free-bimbling, Red Bull beckons. Perhaps the first ever BimBage could be held on Wimbledon Common 🙂

Just looking at my route from the 5th on view ranger, no pictures due to the desire to at least keep going preventing me to go through the aggro of unclipping and getting my camera out, but a very leisurely ride...

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I know that pedantry is not in the spirit of bimbling, but animal spotting surely is.

I saw some sort of Ibis or Impala in the wild animal park. I waved, it stared.

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[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impala ]Impala[/url]
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Maybe he could only just see over the hedge, and presumed one or the other was not in its usual orientation? Those horns and that beak look quite similar to me.....

my new/old Bimble Thimble:

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Needs bottle/flask cages. And possibly a front rack/bag and trouser guard too.

There's room for at least 38c in the fork and the seatstays, but probably 32c absolute tops in the chainstays. I'll just have to go slower over the bumpy bits.

dp. woopsy daisy.

What a doofus. With some research it was an Axis deer I saw. Quite worryingly from the map it appeared to be in the carnivore section.

Accessories for the more civilised bimbler.

STW points for John Lewis too.

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I've been trying to perfect the art of the winter night-time bimble. It's a tricky one as the weather is often too crappy to stop and enjoy a brew, so the temptation is to stick my head down and try to hammer round as fast as possible. But this year I've been trying to slow it right down, smell the smells and listen to the (scary) noises in the forest. Turning the lights right down seems to help too. Still not cracked it though, so would be interested to hear any other tales of night-time bimbling.

Bimbling in a Winter Wonderland 🙂

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Evening bimblers.

Quick bimble from Dinorwic down to Caernarfon, following the old railway line and some single track roads.

There was bacon, coffee and we met a very famous goat, the mascot of the local MRT, no less.
Tried to eat my pannier, the horny little sod, but nice to meet the local celebs.

A combination of last night's whisky and Mrs S learning how her new gears work resulted in an average speed of 6.8 mph
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Beat that and stay fashionable.

This thread needs reviving!

Over biked, under skilled, over weight.

Immediate Bimble material!

No mud guards but do have saddle bag fitted. 😀

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Well fellow bimblers, the weather is on the up & this thread is severely lacking in new content 😯 Whats occurring fellow riders of the fat rubber??

Does it have to be fat rubber? 🙂

28c on wide touring rims any good? Full guards, rack and pannier if that helps!

Swim at Guildford Lido yesterday, back lanes home via The White Hart for lunch and ale, The Dog and Pheasant for a glass of rosé, and The Fox and Pelican for more rosé, 'cos once you've started...

First pic is actually from a bimble to Winkworth Arboretum and The White Horse a couple of weeks ago, but it's representative, and still an animal pub. 😀

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Over 80 hours at work since Monday nights events have left room for just a couple of early morning (5 am) and mid evening commuter bimbles this week. I made the most of them by going the long way each day. A welcome, if slightly surreal start and finish to the madness of the day.

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