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Welcome to the world of long distance cycling aka what's going to wear out/break today.
Rotors can be straightened (or just stick headphones in and ignore any rubbing noises) or you can just check that it's not caliper misalignment or different left/right piston movement.
Tyres - well that's unlucky (unless you have a habit of just plowing into rock gardens, potholes, glass, etc) and don't overstuff bags.
Both my zips broke during Badlands on my framebag but they'd done a lot of races so I knew they were going to go one day. Got Restrap to repair them at the end of last year.
hippy
Hello, it's now 5 days until I start LEJOG: our route is 1001miles over 8 days which will be a lot of fun and help with the distance. We also plan to cycle back to Inverness :)
Although in frustrating news, I broke a lot on my bike yesterday... We went for a ride to essex and I split my new rear vittoria corsa, my handlebar bag which I bought from the chap who makes them on here (User error zip...My fault completely) and now i think my front disc is warped so I'll need a new one of them too... I love cycling. At least all of these broke before the trip and I can replace them now, annoyed about the cost because I just replaced the tyres but it's the nature of cycling as much as I do.
Yesterday was day 184 - 18,361km done