Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Greatest mountain passes I’ve ever seen. Food 10/10, people 10/10, Sea incredible… Salalah is worth any effort required.

Not that what I seen in Al Jahar wasn’t incredible

Agreed - it was about my tenth visit to the country, and I'm blown away by the hospitality and scenery every time. Dhofar/Salalah the only region I'm yet to explore. Actually got to experience the kindness of the Omanis on this trip first hand. I set off at a silly time of day and was a little concerned I would run out of water. Luckily, as it was a Friday afternoon, there were lots of locals huddled under trees on the mountain sharing coffee and lunch. One group of young guys called me over for a chat as I was just starting the final ascent and insisted I sat down and filled up with cold water, dates and halwa. They asked how long it would be before I came back down, and said they would have lunch ready for when I did! Think it could be a great country to do a tour for a couple of weeks.

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This’ll be in the golf thread in 3, 2, 1…

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Slight fear of death twice but otherwise fairly enjoyable

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Fuck climbing those hills.

FFS

Hows life on the equator?

Muddy. I’m hoping that gets the tiles I was in for

Turning my mac into an actual book to view these.

Ha, was a little too adventurous, probably did well to miss it.

Good one

Does this count.. 1991 Peugeot - AKA "the pink raider"..

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I don't think that matters anymore.

Looks fun anyway

We had 7 vehicles stolen from people coming over from Yemen down there and it still couldn’t sully the place for me.

£2.4k for a fairly basic build metal bike?

It's not even a Surly!

I became an amazing friend with a young chap who took me every site to see, all the secret food places to go just truly made the place great every time I was there and purely out of enjoyment of his country.

It was only on the 4th I discovered while at his parents for dinner his dad was the most senior person in the Omani army outside the sultans family and generally just a hugely powerful man. Never mentioned it he just liked being a friend and maybe being treated normally.

I absolutely love Oman. I truly love it.

Love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waq54CZfrNw

He’s right. Boardman SPD pedals are lighter than XT. Only 11g heavier than XTR.

https://www.halfords.com/cycling/pedals-pegs/boardman-mtb-team-pedal-357756.html

Do yourself a favour and put a cheap Shimano v brakes on.

They’re also not as good (had the same).

Not sure how wise the fork cages are, given its likely carbon.
How long is the average time for GBduro?

Anyone got one of these?

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