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What were you doing for 13 hours that you weren’t riding!? 😂

That’s hippy level time wasting.

#pullingyourleg

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Eating, shopping, napping, checking directions, taking photos, tightening bolts, wallowing in dark mental pits of despair

Indeed. Glad the knee is ok 👍🏼

Saw your insta post. Amazing effort. Welcome to Adelaide. I was wondering how you coped with the wind on Wednesday. It sure annoyed the fuck out of me for the 20k I rode against it.

How did you find the traffic etc?

Wednesday was extremely fast for me. It wasn’t until Thursday morning around Balmoral and sunrise that the wind started to hit hard. Had it for hours and hours. I was doing about 17kmh moving from there. Stopped in Edenhope for ages on the verge of ‘quitting’ - even though I’d still have to ride to Adelaide anyway. Just kept thinking if I averaged 17kmh from there it would still be another 24+ hours and I just couldn’t hack it. I chipped away regardless and about 3 hours later I got to Naracoorte and changed bearing from west to north and finally seemingly had a tailwind (or at least no headwind). Saved.

Traffic was fine tbh. Enjoyed it better at night where you could see cars from miles away (literally) and you are more visible yourself. Used a mirror for the first time and found it came in very handy!

Never been to the Nullabor, but those roads around Naracoorte, Penola, Casterton, Coleraine, Balmoral ... even these are so straight and empty, miles and miles just no villages or anything really, but fields, livestock and gum trees.

A headwind there would be soul destroying.

One day I'll do the trip down to Melbs, but maybe in like 3-4-5 days. Grandpa needs time.

I think you should rest up and head to Thea Vegetarian Garden to stuff yourself with amazing Gluten based food as a reward.

Drinking beer is never time wasted.

Yeah, they were roads with straight sections for about 5km then a slight kink and same again. Sleep-inducing. Although very safe in terms of traffic.

Wait, I got my days wrong in my previous comment. Wednesday WAS the shit day.

Seeing cars come towards you at night is fine- its watching the taillights of whats past you for minutes after that fucks my head up.

watching the taillights of whats past you for minutes after that fucks my head up.

It's weird.
I measured 13 minutes before the tail lights of a truck disappeared on the 90-mile last year

Did you look up at the stars? Must have been amazing.

Yes, was fun to see the Southern Cross (never been south of Equator before) and different stars.

But I only spent one night out in the actual bush. One night I rode through and two in hotels, and it clouded over a bit on the night I was out, so it wasn't as wonderful as I expected.

And, TBH, with combination of jetlag and tiredness from riding, I was less interested than I thought I would be!

Final kit pictures and set-ups are steadily appearing on Instagram...

Look up in Bosnia or further south this year, amazing.

Tracker is up. Last minute always works a charm. #prettyinpink

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Good luck @veganjoseph - will be cheering you on from afar.

Where is the tracker?

Enjoy it @veganjoseph

http://indianpacificwheelrace2018.maprogress.com

I just assumed it wouldn’t be on their website, with them not organising the race.

I see Dan Welch is doing this again - I worked with him briefly up until the end of 2017 at TW

go Joe!