http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today’s excitement in downtown balerno en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:55:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335421 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:24:35 +0000 gembo 335421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes but no midges bit you </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335419 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:11:01 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335419@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a Soviet solution but it weighed 94kg and depended on a block of Thorium. Also it made you deaf. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335414 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:39:44 +0000 gembo 335414@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But maybe cheaper Eastern European version from GDR will work? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335413 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:30:31 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The prototype worked a treat but I cannot patent it. It is already in the public domain but production ceased and it was expensive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335412 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:20:30 +0000 gembo 335412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I understand your caginess. As if it works you will want to patent it </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335411 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:13:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When you see the personal solution (darkly, through the mesh) your concern will evaporate.</p> <p>Mind you I must move ahead and actually make the production model. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335406 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:23:58 +0000 steveo 335406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He's the blood sacrifice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335405 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:22:13 +0000 gembo 335405@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS - if I have your net what will you use. I know you have a personal solution but I am concerned </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335404 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:21:01 +0000 steveo 335404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Decathlon also useful for this kind of thing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335402 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:20:24 +0000 gembo 335402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bill, both good and bad to know</p> <p>what size of mesh can midge get through??</p> <p>When I were a lad about hundred years ago, golfing of a summers evening with my old boy. The midge never came anywhere near him (even after he gave up the fags). </p> <p>Then I was once in a forestry commission pub up near Torridon when I was twenty and a French couple came in. I had to translate for the barman who was pretending to not understand their distress. I said - they want to know if you have anything for the midges. Barman slammed bottle of whisky down on the bar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335401 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:57:17 +0000 bill 335401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo Mr Bill went to Tiso yesterday to get Smidge as we ran out of it last weekend and said Tiso was closed. But I directed him to a pharmacy in Dalry that I found on <a href="https://www.smidgeup.com/shop/stockists/">Smidge stocklist website</a> and he obtained it there. The nets are also made by Smidge people so may be available from those places.</p> <p>We used the head nets a lot this last weekend in Glen Shiel. Yet I still managed to get about 25 bites on my face. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335400 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:56:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I bought a head net in Brunstfield Outdoor. It was the only object they sell at a normal price. </p> <p>I will lend you the Overlander head net along with the Overlander tent. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335397 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:32:20 +0000 gembo 335397@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is tiso open for selling these meshes and tick removers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335388 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 08:16:43 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The only thing that works is nylon mesh. Carry a head net (and gloves if in glens Brittle, Desary etc). </p> <p>DEET certainly inhibits tick biting so you find them wandering about looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp rather than implanted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335383 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:11:49 +0000 steveo 335383@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have crushed and battered bottle of smidge that goes everywhere with me as a talisman, I'm not entirely sure it works </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335380 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:28:30 +0000 wingpig 335380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If anyone wants some Smidge I've a part-used squirty bottle which did me absolutely no good at all last summer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335378 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:25:51 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335378@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, DEET inhibits the bite reflex. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335374 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:23:16 +0000 gembo 335374@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>With skin so soft the blue bottle had a nozzle that delivered a thin yet total covering to your skin. Shame they changed it</p> <p>Does DEET repel ticks? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335373 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:24:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335373@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The solution is total but entirely personal. Avon Skin So Soft no longer repels midges. Only the old light blue bottles work. New go-to is Smidge. I tried it and it's OK.</p> <p>I will be using jungle-strength DEET on socks, shoes, legs for ticks and my Personal Midge Protection System. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335371 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:04:12 +0000 gembo 335371@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Going average height and merry rather than too tall and drunk for tent. Will have spray for midges unless the Iwrats solution is superior like his tent is </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335370 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:45:57 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335370@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@fimm</p> <p>Solidarity. It is good to share and @gembo is a man of honour, probity and temperance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335369 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:37:18 +0000 fimm 335369@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS is a man of taste when it comes to tents - I also have an Akto. <em>Nobody</em> gets to borrow that... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335365 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:38:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335365@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>The reality is that I will assemble your tent and you will help madame assemble our two-man (can sleep three but intimate). It is old and Scottish Mountain Gear refused to fit a new groundsheet on the grounds the old one had a bit of mould. Health and safety gone mad if you ask me. I have put it through the washing machine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335364 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:13:39 +0000 steveo 335364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I really don't use a tent enough to justify the cost of good one tbh given the £30 has covered me sufficiently for the last decade I think I've been bivvy institutionalised. </p> <p>If anyone wants an entertaining yarn Ron Turnbull's "Book of the Bivvy" is in the library and very good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335363 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:50:24 +0000 gembo 335363@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Petra also slightly more detailed than the gelert chap.</p> <p>Never assembled a tent so light that you have to attach it to your rucksack as you assemble it. Excit8ng.</p> <p>Excellent bit in the video where chap assembles tent and then undoes the spy hole to find another tent has popped up beside him. Nice Hillberg joke. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313&page=2#post-335362 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:41:25 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>She is a beauty @steveo. Took the Glenfeshie Event on the chin. Not a drop got through. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313#post-335361 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:38:10 +0000 steveo 335361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>that tent is <em>slightly</em> better than mine... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313#post-335360 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:30:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335360@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>Oh I see. You'll be needing.....a <em>tent</em> then?'</p> <p>No no. I was insisting that you should have mine.</p> <p>Petra will sort you out. I don't have the book. Never needed it.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw4OMsrkenU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw4OMsrkenU</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313#post-335359 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:01:42 +0000 gembo 335359@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh sorry, @iwrats, I read your comment You’ll need a tent perhaps slightly differently than you meant.</p> <p>Is there a video that goes with the Overlander tent? steveo’s guy quite comforting if slightly boring voice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20313#post-335358 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:57:48 +0000 steveo 335358@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just how big is the overlander tent? Did you get it from a surplus store? </p>