My new kitchen accessory

vernon said:

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Hey, you've got a PA-1 tent! Cool!

Chris
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vernon said:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Touring/photo#5024818776725217634

Hey, you've got a PA-1 tent! Cool!

Excellent value at £15 but I now use a two man Vango tent to enjoy the
luxury of being able to squirm and wriggle around without suffereing from
excessive claustrophobia. I am contemplating using it again if I go for a
light and faster LEJOG or for short 1-2 night cycle camping trips in fine
weather.

-=V=-

vernon said:

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I see a precedent starting here which is worrying me for if/when I get a
new bike. While Marmite & Colman's mustard is available round here I am
not sure about the London Pride.

<checks website>

Mind you, I could get hold of baked beans, Irn Bru and Soreen, so all is
not lost.

--
Don Whybrow

Sequi Bonum Non Time

After things go from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.

vernon said:

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Quoted message said:

vernon said:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Touring/photo#5024818776725217634

Hey, you've got a PA-1 tent! Cool!

Excellent value at £15 but I now use a two man Vango tent to enjoy the
luxury of being able to squirm and wriggle around without suffereing from
excessive claustrophobia. I am contemplating using it again if I go for a
light and faster LEJOG or for short 1-2 night cycle camping trips in fine
weather.

I got mine for £5.00 as discontinued stock :-))

It is often used for two of us, when on short overnight trips, such as
the Round the Island. More than two nights and its the Spacepacker.

The PA-1 is a Classic.

John B

John B said:

vernon said:

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"vernon" <[email hidden]> writes:

> http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Touring/photo#5024818776725217634
Hey, you've got a PA-1 tent! Cool!

Excellent value at £15 but I now use a two man Vango tent to enjoy
the luxury of being able to squirm and wriggle around without
suffereing from excessive claustrophobia. I am contemplating using
it again if I go for a light and faster LEJOG or for short 1-2 night
cycle camping trips in fine weather.

I got mine for £5.00 as discontinued stock :-))

It is often used for two of us, when on short overnight trips, such as
the Round the Island. More than two nights and its the Spacepacker.

The PA-1 is a Classic.

Indeed! I got mine for 15 quid too. I had a bit of a problem with
one of the poles earlier in the year but a very nice chap from
uk.rec.walking had a spare set and it's fine now. I don't think I've
done more than 3 nights in a row and never quite wild camping in the
hills but plenty of nights in strongs winds and a lot of rain. Never
been let down by it yet.

Chris
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vernon said:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Touring/photo#5024818776725217634

I see a precedent starting here which is worrying me for if/when I get a
new bike. While Marmite & Colman's mustard is available round here I am
not sure about the London Pride.

<checks website>

Mind you, I could get hold of baked beans, Irn Bru and Soreen, so all is
not lost.

I ate the Soreen and quaffed the Irn Bru on the way home ;-)

London Pride is available in most big supermarkets and the Co-Op at least it
is here in Leeds, and a very nice ale it is too

Chris Eilbeck said:

Quoted message said:

The PA-1 is a Classic.

Indeed! I got mine for 15 quid too. I had a bit of a problem with
one of the poles earlier in the year but a very nice chap from
uk.rec.walking had a spare set and it's fine now. I don't think I've
done more than 3 nights in a row and never quite wild camping in the
hills but plenty of nights in strongs winds and a lot of rain. Never
been let down by it yet.

My poles are a little bent after the high winds at New Year, but I'm
sure I'll get a few more nights out of it...... and then I'll use my
spare one!

Judith

Judith said:

My poles are a little bent after the high winds at New Year, but I'm
sure I'll get a few more nights out of it...... and then I'll use my
spare one!

I'm really tempted to overwrap the ones I have with some carbon fibre
cloth, not really for extreme performance, more for durability now
I've seen how they can fail.

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck said:

Judith said:

My poles are a little bent after the high winds at New Year, but I'm
sure I'll get a few more nights out of it...... and then I'll use my
spare one!

I'm really tempted to overwrap the ones I have with some carbon fibre
cloth, not really for extreme performance, more for durability now
I've seen how they can fail.

Where can you obtain this?
It sounds as if it might be worth having in the repair kit.

John B

John B said:

Chris Eilbeck said:

Judith said:

My poles are a little bent after the high winds at New Year, but I'm
sure I'll get a few more nights out of it...... and then I'll use my
spare one!

I'm really tempted to overwrap the ones I have with some carbon fibre
cloth, not really for extreme performance, more for durability now
I've seen how they can fail.

Where can you obtain this?
It sounds as if it might be worth having in the repair kit.

It's a pretty involved process and it takes a few attempts to get a
good result when you first start with this stuff. I've bought from

http://www.freeflightsupplies.co.uk/hitech.htm

before and they were pretty good. You can buy a kind of carbon fibre
sock too from

http://www.aerosleeves.com/Carbon_Fiber_Sleeving_s/18.htm

but it doesn't go small enough to reinforce tent poles.

Chris
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John B said:

Chris Eilbeck said:

Judith <[email hidden]> writes:

> My poles are a little bent after the high winds at New Year, but I'm
> sure I'll get a few more nights out of it...... and then I'll use my
> spare one!

I'm really tempted to overwrap the ones I have with some carbon fibre
cloth, not really for extreme performance, more for durability now
I've seen how they can fail.

Where can you obtain this?
It sounds as if it might be worth having in the repair kit.

I'm not sure that it's suitable for field repairs.

Quoted message said:

It's a pretty involved process and it takes a few attempts to get a
good result when you first start with this stuff. I've bought from

http://www.freeflightsupplies.co.uk/hitech.htm

Are you an aeromodeller? Mike Woodhouse has a host of materials that
aeromodellers see as normal but have other uses elsewhere.

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before and they were pretty good. You can buy a kind of carbon fibre
sock too from

http://www.aerosleeves.com/Carbon_Fiber_Sleeving_s/18.htm

but it doesn't go small enough to reinforce tent poles.

I'm not convinced that the carbon fibre will protect against kinking
failures. I had a failure in high winds where the end of one section belled
out and snapped off. Duct tape and an oversized section from the repair kit
held things together for my trusty Vango.

vernon said:

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vernon said:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Touring/photo#5024818776725217634

I see a precedent starting here which is worrying me for if/when I get a
new bike.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Mind you, I could get hold of baked beans, Irn Bru and Soreen, so all is
not lost.

You could also go down the fishmongers :-)

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I ate the Soreen and quaffed the Irn Bru on the way home ;-)

London Pride is available in most big supermarkets and the Co-Op at least it
is here in Leeds, and a very nice ale it is too

But it tastes much better in a Fuller's house and even better in The
Star in Belgrave Mews West :-)

My Co-op downsized slightly recently due to a refit and now all I can
get is Speckled Hen, unless I actually ride to Sainsbury's where I can
get Duvel in large bottles, amongst other things....hic!
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

vernon said:

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John B said:

Chris Eilbeck wrote:

> I'm really tempted to overwrap the ones I have with some carbon fibre
> cloth, not really for extreme performance, more for durability now
> I've seen how they can fail.

Where can you obtain this?
It sounds as if it might be worth having in the repair kit.

I'm not sure that it's suitable for field repairs.

I wouldn't say so but it might work as preventative maintenance.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's a pretty involved process and it takes a few attempts to get a
good result when you first start with this stuff. I've bought from

http://www.freeflightsupplies.co.uk/hitech.htm

Are you an aeromodeller? Mike Woodhouse has a host of materials that
aeromodellers see as normal but have other uses elsewhere.

Nope, I fly rockets with usually video cameras on them.

http://www.hyperspace.org.uk/rocket-video/

This is the closest I've come to doing any aeromodelling in the last
few years ;o)

http://www.qinetiq.com/home/commercial/space/space_missions_and/development_projects/zephyr_uav.html

Quoted message said:

I'm not convinced that the carbon fibre will protect against kinking
failures. I had a failure in high winds where the end of one
section belled out and snapped off. Duct tape and an oversized
section from the repair kit held things together for my trusty
Vango.

I've not got a huge amount of experience with ali poles but the main
failure mode with my PA-1 has been where the poles join, crack
propagation along the larger tube. I'm gonna try wrapping the ends of
the poles and seeing what happens.

Chris
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It arrived earlier than expected, the vendor being eager to get it to me
packed and posted it and caused a minor ripple in the mill pond of
domestic bliss with its unannounced arrival.

Fullers London Pride!

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

John B said:

It is often used for two of us, when on short overnight trips, such as
the Round the Island. More than two nights and its the Spacepacker.

The PA-1 is a Classic.

But it still weighs more than the Spacepacker, and isn't so strong and
has less flexible space layout, so though an undoubted bargain I just
didn't see the point in not using the Spacepacker...

Pete.
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Peter Clinch said:

John B said:

It is often used for two of us, when on short overnight trips, such as
the Round the Island. More than two nights and its the Spacepacker.

The PA-1 is a Classic.

But it still weighs more than the Spacepacker, and isn't so strong and
has less flexible space layout, so though an undoubted bargain I just
didn't see the point in not using the Spacepacker...

Its a lot warmer.

John B

In the referenced article said:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Touring/photo#5024818776725217634

It arrived earlier than expected, the vendor being eager to get it
to me packed and posted it and caused a minor ripple in the mill
pond of domestic bliss with its unannounced arrival.

Tut, tut. SWMBO should look on the bright side. At least you
aren't collecting Porsche motor cars or Faberge eggs. Bicycles
are soooo cheap in comparison that half-a-dozen represents a
miniscule collection!

....

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Now I need to tidy it up a little. Does anyone know where I can
get my hands on (pun intended) some Mafac brake hoods?

They look like the old non-aero mafac brake levers. If so, the
levers are silver and drilled, a bit like the old Campag Super
Record levers. I doubt that you'll find a set of hoods for these.
But you could try places like:

http://www.universalcyclecentre.co.uk/indexhome.htm

to see if they have any in stock.

However I should have a set of the levers complete with hoods going
spare. I haven't looked at them recently, but they should be in
good condition having been in storage for most of their life. Let
me know if you'd be interested in them.
--
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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It arrived earlier than expected, the vendor being eager to get it to
me packed and posted it and caused a minor ripple in the mill pond of
domestic bliss with its unannounced arrival. Thankfully when I made a
post sale enquiry about the availability of the the Holdsworth tourer
that was also for sale at the same time, it had been sold to someone
else - phew!!!

Now I need to tidy it up a little. Does anyone know where I can get
my hands on (pun intended) some Mafac brake hoods?

These Dia-Compe rubber hoods are said to fit Mafac levers.

<http://aebike.com/page.cfm?PageID=30&action=list&searchtype=search&keywor
ds=hood&Brand=105&gobutnsearch=Search>

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Does anyone know where I can get my hands on (pun
intended) some Mafac brake hoods?

Some here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130074921352

Quite pricey, and I don't know if they'll fit your levers.

James Thomson