Anybody have a compass on the handle bars?

[snorri]

I believe you're thinking of @BigonaBianchi

Thank you!
I don't remember as well as I used to.

 

[snorri]

It's the same guy
AFAIK he's alive & well on the south coast of the UK

Why did i ever get into this?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

It's the same guy
AFAIK he's alive & well on the south coast of the UK

Why did i ever get into this?

I hadn't realised he'd had two user names (dates from before I joined the site). Good to know he's alright even if he doesn't visit anymore.

 

[Pale Rider]

The last entry on @BigonaBianchi's Cyprus blog is 2016.

As said, he moved there to run a cycling tours business.

I recall a typically tetchy current affairs thread on here with members having a dig at him for putting tenants in his house in the UK.

He posts publicly on Strava as Rolf Riley, so anyone who understands Strava better than I do could check what he's currently up to.

https://cyprusonabianchi.blogspot.com/2016/04/2016-update-i-still-love-cycling-here.html

 

[Gravity Aided]

I keep one permanently trapped inside the map pocket on the top of my bar bag. Far enough away from anything ferrous which might influence it.

My bar bag has a loop for the compass, one of those small flat ones with a cover, but I prefer the larger lensatic compass, and one of those map measurement devices. Which reminds me, I need to remount my handlebar bag on the Trek when I get the winter overhaul done. I have thought about going to Harbor Freight and getting a sextant, from time to time. For the running fix.

 

[froze]

No compass on the handlebars but I do carry a lensatic compass in the handlebar bag, but I yet to ever use it because I've never gotten so lost I needed one! In fact even when I use to hike I never used the compass, but I always carried one just in case.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

BOAB's ears will be burning lol
I've got him on FB, he's fine, still cycling lots, still playing the guitar.

 

[sheddy]

I used to keep compasses on the handlebars.
Then they fell off and punctured my back tyre.

 

[classic33]

BOAB's ears will be burning lol
I've got him on FB, he's fine, still cycling lots, still playing the guitar.

Gone to the other side

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Just a word of warning on compasses. A couple of years ago a group of Irish hillwalkers had to be rescued after magnets had interfered with their compass.
Similar in Scotland
https://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2...d-could-be-fatal-attraction-for-your-compass#

 

[Venod]

I have the direction setting on my Garmin screen, and my phone has a brilliant compass and OS maps, I know someone will say what if the batteries run out.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have the direction setting on my Garmin screen, and my phone has a brilliant compass and OS maps, I know someone will say what if the batteries run out.

What if the internal pigeon runs out?

 

[Venod]

What if the internal pigeon runs out?

I would follow it, they usually know the way home.