Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

He was slower than people on mtb... if that means anything.

Wish he didn't love his family so much, no interest in that.

The scenery is lovely and my missus likes their colourful jerseys but other than that I've thrown three laptops into the fire just to make sure they're not infected with "EPIC!"

Wait, desert? I thought I'd be riding across a massive dessert.

It's definitely got a car crash vibe to it - I want to look away but...

But now I've started it I have to finish it, just so that I can say I endured the video, the most awesome, epic, "OMG I'm so wrecked", "I've never watched this far before", "I could've made a video of me suffering through this video" amazing video.

I hope the climb itself took longer than 1h14m.

I'll watch this because I want to see this climb but I might have to mute it.

I make and I sell soap.

Release yourself from the Rapha shackles!

Yes mate, let it all out!

might be time to update this with all the new graveltoobers and bloggers

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don't understand how lantern rouge and terry barensten are close together. and where are you going to place the VC?

Disclaimer I didn't watch the video yet
Scrolling through the pictures and the itinerary on the Radavist article I can tell that I have been to some of these places for work followed by a week of cycling from the Mojave to Los Angeles.
There are some quite awesome and surreal views.
The surface frequently changed from baby heads and fist-sized rocks to super-fine desert sand that was unrideable on 650b x 42.
When we crossed a bit of the Mojave it was also new to me to ride an entire day without any shade at all.
BUT the hardest thing for me about being in and around Death Valley was the food... It is really hard to get anything fresh. Stopping at diners and gas stations most of what you will get is beef jerky, cliff bars and pancakes with syrup and bacon...

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Great pics

i believe at the time i made this i'd discovered LR rides an outdated carbon rim brake bike (road racing is authoritative / conservative, rim brake outdated bike is liberal/ socialist, while he's also zoomer australian so factored in assumed world views, position accounted for weighting)

terry by rides large amounts of titanium bikes and is a jock, but also has expressed a somewhat hesh, but manicured lifestyle/world view on film (TI bikes and jock authoritative / conservative, curated hesh lifestyle is typical liberal/neutral, additionally is a west coaster moved east suggesting he likes not full hippy, position accounted for weighting)

I would place VC between radavist and mash sf, seems like a strong "vegan liberal type" , family, food, freedom type vibe

^^^ You had me at pancakes but those pics are awesome.

Wish he didn't love his family so much, no interest in that.

Definitely performative and over-compensating for guilt at annoyingly vlogging the shit out of everything the family does. But who's perfect?

beef jerky, cliff bars and pancakes with syrup and bacon...

So, better food than anywhere in France then?

Also, your pics are awesome and now I wish I didn't have some "Don't you know I'm vegan" guy talking about how epic the 20m of dirt he just walked over was, playing in my head while looking at them.

But who's perfect?

Me.

Next.

Oh wait, sorry, I thought you asked "who's drunk?"

Haha you are joking but the last time I crossed a corner of France on a bike trip it was some local holiday. Everything nice was closed and we had the worst kebabs of our lifes.

beef jerky, cliff bars and pancakes with syrup and bacon

Wasn’t that bad in the beginning but cycling and work combined I spend almost 3 weeks in that area.

If you add beer to that lot, you've got the hippy healthy diet something something pyramid.

The worst thing about TransAm for me wasn't two physical issues slowing me down... it was the lack of pancakes available on the route.

how could you get no pancakes? that doesn't make sense to me

Come ride the Trans My Back Yard™

You can stay in a yurt, feed my chickens, go swimming at the beach, and I’ll feed you pancakes with peanut butter and maple syrup as Jesus intended.

The route goes past far fewer diners than reasonable. I think I stopped at Seasons in Grangeville, ID both years because they had pancakes, apple pie and huge milkshakes.

Would love to see more of the US so expect a visit one day. At the moment though I think it would cost more in PCR tests than flights!