Ultracycling

How does it work though? It must be using a SIM of some sort to get mobile data, right? Just that it's then presenting it as a wifi hotspot? What am I missing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX Never heard of it.

Yeah it's a pocket wifi thingy. The good thing about them is you can just rent them - they're aimed at tourists for holidays

@hippy Why not just buy an AT&T pay as you go SIM*?

$45+tax from any AT&T shop, comes with 3gb of fast data and unlimited slow data.

Technically it's a subscription but service terminates at the end of the month without you doing anything. I've bought quite a few over the years with no issue.

Just make sure your phone is unlocked. UK galaxy S7 phones support AT&T 4G bands and are waterproof. Most phones should do 3G fine.

It's still worth carrying a UK SIM because the can roam onto any network so might sometimes get coverage where an AT&T SIM will ignore another network's signal.

*Verizon service is better in the middle of nowhere, but you need a Verizon specific phone for that.

Why not just buy an AT&T pay as you go SIM

Well that was exactly the plan but then reading the forums it seemed like you can't do that in the US. My phone is unlocked (I only buy SIM-free phones these days) and is a model which supports 4G LTE on AT&T.

I would have my UK SIM with me anyway, because I likely wouldn't be buying a US SIM until I got to the US and still want a phone. Though I could buy a US SIM in advance off ebay.

Your Z3 might support AT&T LTE.

If it has a model number D6603 or D6643 it should be fine.

All models should support AT&T 3G and 2G.

To find the model number and name of your Xperia™ device

From your Home screen, tap the Application screen icon.
Find and tap Settings.
Tap About phone/tablet > Model number.

You can buy them, I did it last month.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13301007/

Crossed over with your reply while I was looking up model numbers for the wrong phone :-)

@hippy I used my three phone on TD, my plan had unlimited data, and thus, I had unlimited roaming data in the US too. Didn't make many calls apart from arranging pick up at the end so it was cheap.

Cheers dude, I reckon I'll get another Three SIM then and see how it looks and if I can find a cheap AT&T maybe I'll get one of those as well as a backup. I mean, it's not like the £ is shithouse and this kind of frivolous spending will cost a fortune or anything.. ;)

Unlimited data in the UK doesn't quite translate to unlimited overseas with 3, it caps out at 12GB (admittedly that's a fair amount but I have got near it a few times).

I'll be on a bike for 16+ hours a day and eating/sleeping the rest. I don't think I'll have much time for streaming porn so should be well under the 12gb although Three fucked me last time and said I'd hit the limit even though when I rang to cancel they said "oh no you've got loads left". Yeah, well it didn't fucking work Montenegro to Turkey so do one.

Christ if I did TD today, I'd have spent £2000 on food

Not much chance of that on Tour Divide I suppose, 90% is 0 reception.

It doesn't matter what the exchange rate is I'm still going to spend £2000 on food. :D

PANCAKE ME!

Get ready to buy Dollars immediately if Trump wins.

What will happen to USD if he wins? Actually, is there a USD pattern after every election?

I was going to get some today but not sure if I can be fucked heading over to Baker Street to pick them up.

Hopefully it will tank.

Well hopefully that fucking imbecile doesn't get near winning but then I didn't think Brexit stood a chance, once again underestimating the stupidity of mankind...

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but there's a book being made about the Highland Trail 550 available through crowdfunding.

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/joining-the-dots-the-highland-trail-550-journal?tk=82fa3cbdcc9ffd92364eb11691c7449f6650d685

When I was looking at data SIMs in Portugal (where you don't need to register SIMs, which is handy), I read that some networks rounded data sessions up to the nearest MB, but it wasn't clear what constituted a data session, so if you've got apps polling for updates every hour, each one could waste almost a MB each time, eating up 700MB of allowance each month on top of your actual usage.

Wouldn't be surprised if UK networks were similarly fucktardy.

Musing about body weight for ultra events.

In conventional bike riding watts per/kg is king, right?

But given the demands that ultra events have on the body, is it wise to start events carrying a little extra? This way your body has fat reserves to dip in to...

If that's a totally wrong way of looking at it, fair enough - just wondered how important it really is to be 'race weight' for events that last a week or more.

Depends on length of event. But most normal people would have enough fat in them, without needed more.
If you're lean and got a 6 pack, afew extra kilos would be good.

No danger there!

I guess I'm just not going to stress too much about my weight leading up to the event. Though, with the training I'm hoping to do, I would expect to a bit anyway. I'm probably about 5kg heavier than where I'd like to be so not a huge deal either way.

5kg is more that enough. Unless your event is months long.
You can do the maths on how much body mass you'd expect to loose.

Considering 7000kcal ~= 1kg.