GML Tandem TD

Advantages: brilliant fun and half the effort
Disadvantages: all the effort - the one on the back is skiving again!

...Konnekt 2 tandem Why a tandem – my children spent a week on holiday and whilst they were away my partner and I discovered cycling. We had both recently bought bikes in an effort to get fit and cycled a mere 3 ½ miles to and from work. Anyway, we were out everyday after work, discovering country lanes and the likes. When the children came home they joined our daily jaunts – for a day – then my daughter said the distances were too much for her (she’s only 9). Hence, I bought the tandem for me and her to continue the favourite family pastime! So to the tandem – a Konekt 2 bought on e-bay for only £220.00 – a real bargain if you look at traditional tandem prices. An 18 inch frame front and back – suitable for about 4”6’ upwards. When it arrived it was flat packed so I set to work with the mighty allen key and screwdriver... Read review

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Advantages: Exceptional accuracy, reliable easy-read, well made
Disadvantages: At first sight it might appear a tad expensive

...a spirit level. Expect to pay from around £25.00 to £40.00 for a Silva RANGER, in approx price order the range is: RANGER 15 T RANGER 15 TDCL RANGER15 TD RANGER 15 TDCL Ranger 15TDCL-360 Just a quick thought about why or when people need a compass about their person: Hiking, hill-walking, sailing, boating, parachuting, scouting, orienteering basically anyone who venture outdoors, even if your taking a gentle stroll across the moors/fens or whatever. It could save your life! Those of you techno anoraks who might pooh-pooh the idea of a manual handheld compass in favour of a GPS remember a compass is an essential supplement to the GPS because a GPS only shows useful directional information when it is moving. Notes: A fixed bezel compass is where you simply open the compass and turn the compass and your body and read the azimuth... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight and good life
Disadvantages: Air gets trapped on the ascent

...with an optional extra of pockets which would have been nice when I was diving but then with this set up the idea is to reduce the weight rather than add to it. In terms of how it was in the water well it was then that I missed my faithful, rather heavy Buddy Commando TD BCD which has seen me through the last five years of my diving career. Basically the BCD operated all well and good most of the time however I did find that on my ascent it was quite difficult to get the last of the air out of the BCD due to its design which saw some of the air trapped at the top of the jacket. The only way to get it out was to change body position to be able to use the dump valve at the bottom of the BCD and basically wiggling about to get it out much to the amusement of my buddy who thought that something nasty had managed to penetrate by wetsuit and was busy... Read review

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