Suggestions for phone charging

"Testicles dipped in paprika and breadcrumbs and fried in butter"

 

In my case, that's quite true. Don't know about the OP though.

 

Beh, he can just tell her that if she doesn't want his willy anymore
then he's quite willing and happy to entertain it elsewhere.

That'll work.

 

Heh. It'll certainly work but not quite in the way you're expecting.

Did you get a rack for your bike from Lozzo BTW?

Dave

 

I haven't got it yet. I imagine that when he's been able to drop it
of at the bike shop which is ten seconds away from my new place of
work he'll let me know.

Thanks.

 

Perhaps it's not his wife that's the high maintenance one ;-)

 

Its pretty obvious. We're cycling off-road across Wales doing
distances of around 90km per day. The likelyhood of an accident or
illness is pretty high and we need to be able to call for help.

 

Polaris?

 

DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!
DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!
DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!
DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!DOKI!!

 

Good luck with trying to phone the emergency services with 2 broken arms,
jaw, pelvis and legs and trying to tell them where you are. "I'm in Wales..
about 100 yards from my bike". On the plus side, I think beri-beri, dysentry
and typhoid are pretty much under control in Wales these days.

 

1. One of those micro hand gennies used in torches. Take a fair bit of
palm action, but it would put enough into the phone to keep it topped
up.

2. An old-fashioned bicycle tyre dynamo which you can flip on on long
straight bits. Be a bit of extra drag on the rough bits, though the more
recent models are much less draggy than the older ones and a bit more
efficient too.

3. Same as above but get a hub dynamo built into your wheel.

4. A micro-hydro power water wheel powered by piss. Just the thing to
break the ice at parties.

5. Camp under a set of Grid lines and wave the phone around.

6. There is no 6.

 

Suspect not - IIRC Polaris is only a w/e event.

 

Inaugural TransWales stage race:

http://www.mtbtransuk.co.uk/home.php

 

Erm, it isn't obvious that their procedures just might require *them*
to call *you* - which is a whole different ball-game,
battery-life-wise, which is why I asked.....

 

I have tried both solar and wind-up chargers from the Gadget Shop, but
my Nokia phone did not like them.

Looking at the website, it seems you will have some vehicular back-up.
Could you scrounge using the back-up's car battery for you overnight
stops? I know it sounds wimpish and the organisers may be loath to help
you for fear of opening floodgates, but I don't see any other practical
way, apart from a spare phone/battery.

 

Bummer!

 

Helen Deborah Vecht () gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

There's two different Nokia charger specs using the same physical plug. One
"older", one about a year or two old. Old phones like recent chargers,
recent phones turn their noses up at old-spec chargers.

And you don't bloody know until you need 'em.

 

This was an old phone (well, a newish 3330 three or four years ago.)

 

No backup during the actual stages, they'll only transport our gear
between stage camps. There will be feeding stations on route but
they're only there for that.

I think a spare battery/phone and one of the things that takes AA
batteries is going to be the solution.

 

Ben () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Ah. So you could take a car ciggy lighter and one of those battery
jumpstart boxes...