eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

[RobF]

Some people like the noise of course!

Hope - the ticking sound of quality.

According to some, as you say.

 

[Deere John]

Sorry no MTB but on a mountain [emoji2] todays commute downtown and trying a new bun with some coffe



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[EddiePJ]

I don't think that I would want to carry my army No12 diesel cooker in my back pack. Nice idea though.

 

[Deere John]

I don't think that I would want to carry my army No12 diesel cooker in my back pack. Nice idea though.

? Something like this: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/222340858517?_mwBanner=1
What a cool stove!

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[IR772]

The bun is bigger than the gas canister

 

[Steve A]

Love the stove!!!
I have all the bike packing gear and usually do a micro adventure 3 to 4 times a year. This usually involves a 100 mile round trip over 1 to 2 days, sleeping in a forest, orchard or where ever i get permission. GREAT FUN! When not bike packing i carry a micro stove kit, stop and make myself a hot BOVRIL! now and again

 

[EddiePJ]

? Something like this: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/222340858517?_mwBanner=1
What a cool stove!

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Yep that is the one. It lives in my van, along with a micro wave, toaster, and toasted sandwich maker.

I'm a bit greedy as I have two them, including one which is brand new in a box that I paid £70.00 for. I also have a brand new No3 and No2 cooker, plus about five other No2 cookers, a rare Optimus CF82 army stove that I paid almost pence for, and countless army Trangia stoves.


I get most pleasure from using this Swedish army stainless Trangia set. I just love cooking outside.

I'm actually thinking of getting rid of the army No12 diesel cooker that I use, and fancy one of these BUNDESWEHR HEINZE DIESELKOCHER instead.

They are superbly engineered and made, and are just so easy to light and use when compared with the poor quality British army effort.

 

[Steve A]

Makes my stove look like a toy. all my stuff inc gas packs into one cup.

 

[soundwave]

vodka wins it can get you pissed and you can burn down the forest with it

 

[Steve A]

I'm not going to look at these anymore. I'm a sucker for buying these kind of thinks and refurbishing. Last item i bought was an old tilly lamp.

 

[brightonebikes]

I generally take a quinoa salad from my favorite Hove delicatessen, a tin of Waitrose sardines and a bottle of fresh water from the Peckham spring that Del boy discovered. I also have an out of date Marathon bar for emergencies that I've yet to need.

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[Steve A]

Eddie, now that's just showing off. I reckon you could make and sell these for a living.

 

[EddiePJ]

I'm not going to look at these anymore. I'm a sucker for buying these kind of thinks and refurbishing. Last item I bought was an old tilly lamp.

That is probably a wise move.

 

[Steve A]

Pizza oven, best i've seen. Don't you just hate really handy people

 

[Steve A]

I did manage to build this, problem is when my dad was alive he did most and it took about 2 years

 

[EddiePJ]

Eddie, now that's just showing off. I reckon you could make and sell these for a living.

That was the plan originally, but my mistake was not buying a modular precast oven, and using that instead.
I didn't see one that I felt was suitable quality or standard, and they all crack, irrelevant of price.
Mine on the other hand is very different. I have taken it up to just under 850 degrees internally, and the outside temperature remained exactly the same as the ambient temperature of the day, which was 26 degrees. My only heat loss is either up the chimney which can be blanked, or out of the open front, which again has a door.

The business venture was doomed on the basis of the time and effort taken to build it.

 

[Steve A]

This was easier, as i bought it!

 

[Steve A]

Shame Eddie as looks beautiful quality and in your neck of the woods people have the money and willingness to pay.

 

[Gaz]

I'm not going to look at these anymore. I'm a sucker for buying these kind of thinks and refurbishing.

Me too. It's a bloody disease. I cleaned up a rusty paraffin blow torch of my Dad's some years ago. It gets in your head you can get it just that bit nicer... and then there's no going back. Did the same with a weed burner, then moved on to his Mobilette. Now doing the same with a '92 Honda Del Sol, which was in a sorry state when I got her. Last year I snapped a 4" vice that was in my garage:


And was looking on eBay, but then remembered Dad had an old one in a pig sty the roof had come off of. He was in the process on moving so I bombed over to his place to nick it. It was rusty as hell and the bolts holding it to the work bench were seized solid. I was in a white, collared work shirt. What I wasn't ready for was it's weight. This bu$$er weighed four and a half stone, and it was 300' up hill from the pig sty to my car:


Cleaning it up is still a work in progress. I'll paint it in the Spring:


And now I'm looking a stoves on eBay that I have absolutely no use for

Trouble is I like this thread, however far I've helped drag it off topic!

Gaz

 

[Steve A]

Rescued last year, was very very rusty.