Indian Pacific Wheel Race - IndyPac - IPWR

Sad to hear but wouldn't surprise me.

Yeah i'm going to do the same - probably just new cleats for the start and they'll be fine.

I've used SL's for both - no problems what at all. Maybe take 1 spare cleat - pretty unlikely you'd break both

I took spare Speedplay springs. I would prefer stiff mtb shoes still. It's not that you spend a lot of time walking it's just that when you are walking it's on some shitty goat track after 2 days without sleep at 3am and falling over or having cleats full of mud sucks a fat one.

My poor carbon soles.. sobs

that's a good call.

@hippy - I'm fervently hoping to avoid goat tracks.

Good luck with that :)

Kristoff meets the Mayor

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-24/indian-pacific-wheel-race-cyclist-kristof/8385752?section=sport

http://thebikeshow.net/indian-pacific-wheel-race-overlanders/

Yeh Mike is stuck in big ring supposedly...

Mike should just try oiling the gear cables.

Oh

He's probably just forgotten he's not on his SS again.

Well the tracker says 70 between them . Plus it seems a long way to go to rely on a micky mouse di2 battery .

Sounds like the bike mechanic just fucked up and a cable was loose after they did some work on his bike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQG8azg6-Ak

the comments upthread were right on - this guy really is a tosser, he can barely string a sentence together

The gob's going again..

One of the videos earlier, said up until Adelaide Kristoff claimed to of slept 7hrs, wtf?

Very little caffeine as well aparently

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"We're on one of the most isolated worlds on the road" ~ Durian Rider

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I like when he keeps sniffing the road for 'rubber'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2I7ZTlPlc

God all those cycle paths look shit, is that part of the route?

Sarah hammond doing well and 100k from mike who is a similar distance from kristoff.

Nah, he just decided to take some bike paths instead of follow the route :P

Yes, don't know where that is but I've looked at the Melbourne bit and they are definitely using the Yarra trail and the Eastern Freeway bike path thing. It's probably changed a lot since I was last there though as they extended the freeway. It's less shit than this vid (Ade?) which has stairs and junk.

Frank having a sad on, hope he battles through it. Even if he doesn't what an adventure!