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Time in the saddle beforehand as well as the best cleanliness you can manage during the ride will help avoid arse issues but with that much off road you're gonna have some unwanted anal pounding ;)
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Oh yeah, I'm aware of this. I did south downs double with the wrong saddle, 26 hours, and large arse blisters later, I've changed saddles, and never ride with cream now, and it's all turning leathery! But even with that, my mate who did it this year had bad blistering. Every night, wipe down with baby wipes, sleep with shorts down around ankles if you're camping out, and let it breathe. Lots of sudocream. In my mate's words "It only hurts in the morning, until the blisters burst".
Ew.
turnpedal
Yeah, there's some janky looking bikes. Like Cleaverbikes dude, it got him to the end, but looked like a heap of junk!
I'm gonna have as good a kit as I can afford, but seeing as I'm short of work/income recently, it's going to be tight. Once I'm out there, that won't matter anyway. And you're right about fit. I've had a bike fit done on a course at The Bicycle Academy, which was very useful, and at least I understand fit better, and can mitigate some small issues. After 6 days, I'm going to hurt whatever though. I just hope I don't get arse blisters!