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Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo Tent Review
The Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo is a small-ish, light-ish, 1 person single wall tent, which requires a trekking pole to pitch. I’ve owned mine for a couple of years now, and spent many nights in it in a wide a variety of weather and ground conditions. There are a wealth of reviews online with
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Cape Wrath Trail Gear List
A number of people have asked me about my kit for the Cape Wrath Trail. Given that the list was ready and waiting in a spreadsheet, It seems worthwhile to share it particularly as I was very happy with all of my equipment choices. Below is my gear list for walking the trail in September.
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Spoons and Spontaneity
Those reading this from the beginning will know that in the run-up to Christmas 2021 there was a chance I may have gotten covid and had to isolate over that period, cue buying some carving knives for something to take the edge off of spending all of Christmas isolating. Anyway, I enjoyed carving a few
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The Harbor Dishing Gauge
So this one is a bit special… After nearly six years I made the decision to move on from my position at Saddleback, who are a distributor of high end cycling products. Late last year we began working with Abbey (who any tool nerds out there will be familiar with) and were fortunate to be
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Hope Tech3 vs Tech4 E4
I’ll start this off by saying i’ve got a lot of love for Hope brakes, both in terms of thier feel and stopping power but also thier awesome spare parts availablility. I’m struggling to think of another brand within cycling who make as many small parts available for such reasonable prices. If you’ve got a
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Making The best free standing bike storage
Most off the peg bike storage solutions have some pretty big drawbacks. They don’t tend to be hugely versatile or space efficient, and can be quite expensive. On moving house last year I set out to put together the best free standing bike storage solution possible. Why free standing? We’ve got plasterboard walls, and realistically
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Watch out Ray Mears.
So whilst I’m sure many people have spent boxing day doing all sorts of wild and exciting things, I chose to spend 5 hours carving a spoon. Its ages since I made anything from wood, I cant even recall what it would have been, but I’ve always enjoyed working with it and generally quite like
Rob Borek
borekthepencil.com 