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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Make A Camping Stove From Beer Cans And A Penny
The Penny Alcohol Backpacking Stove is a home-made camping stove made from beer cans and a penny. This looks like great fun so I think I'm going to try it.

I know we sell Trangia and Highlander Alcohol Stoves in the shop and I could use one of them any time but making your own brings out the base instinct. Man make fire, man kill meat.

This looks so good that I'm going to go out and buy some beer now, purely for construction purposes of course. If it works I'll post photos, if it doesn't I'll be typing with burned fingers.

Thanks to Goblog.


Posted by bigcrags @ 2:48 PM 0 comments
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Mayor Wants Bicycles to Have Number Plates
This is a funny little story. Ken Livingstone wants mandatory number plates on bikes so that he can make some traffic camera revenue from cyclists jumping lights or from those who hurl abuse at drivers. I have just checked my calendar to see it's not just rolled back to April 1st.

I hear a lot of silly traffic ideas due to my car blog but this one has got to be one of the dumbest.

With all the crap we have to put up with from bad car drivers every time we go out on a bike, this idea is plain crazy. If someone threatens to end my life with their 2 tons of badly driven automobile, I think I'm a little entitled to call them anything I want. At traffic lights (not that there are many in rural Perthshire) in order to keep my feet in the pedals I will inch forward until I see the cross-traffic stopping then yes, I will jump that light before it has changed. Who's gonna stop me?

Nice one Ken!


Posted by bigcrags @ 7:55 AM 4 comments
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Sheep Wool Path Repairs
Outdoors Magic is reporting on an "innovative" path repair technique where sheep wool is used to form a raft over the mud that the path is laid on top of. Apparently it is rather pricey too for this particular path in the Lake District.
This was being done almost 20 years ago here in Scotland and guess what? It sucked. The repair lasted for a short period of a year or so then the whole lot disintegrated.
Good solid stone - that's what you need to repair a path.


Posted by bigcrags @ 2:58 PM 0 comments

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