Ultracycling

On a different subject, my trusty Adamo has fallen apart after years of abuse and now I'm wondering if I try and find another or try something else?

What saddles are people using for road ultras? Bear in mind I spend a lot of time in the aerobars...

Oh, TAR? Anyone been dotwatching it? I've seen nothing save for an IG post about the top-3 riders. How many riders made it to the start? Scenery looks interesting. Wonder if it's worth grabbing the route for a tour or if it's gratuitously hard?

The video doorbells things is a neat idea.

Adamos and similar quite often pop up on here second hand

https://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/index.php?/forum/115-for-sale-and-wanted/

Yeah, I have a bunch of them already but the question here was more along the lines of "is there something else I should try while I'm looking?"

I really like the fizik terra Argo. I had pressure mapping done etc. It was really good for me.
You tried that no? But only off road?

Yeah, I have that on my Stanton. This is for road stuff where I'm in aerobars most of the time. I could try some other Adamo versions I guess, just to see.

I'm quite happy with it in aero bars.

If it works I wouldn't try anything else.

I am using old Specialized Tritip saddles that haven't been made for 10+ years. I just buy up low-mileage or NOS ones when they come up on eBay, but I don't want other people bidding the prices up!

I suppose where I am is that not many people die from riding a bike when tired; if you know what you are doing you can usually manage it / we all know when we really need to sleep; but it's not very elegant to glorify the sleep dep side of things.

Long thread on yacf at the moment which is about a guy who wrote off his car driving 10km home after riding a 400. He was fine while he was on his bike!

works

"Works" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Much like the Adamos! Boom tish!

I guess a new one without the fucked cover would reduce the blistery goodness I got during the 1000k but I'm also wondering if a skinnier model would be better for the more climbing oriented events I'm doing now. I have a PN3.0 that's 15mm skinnier and somewhat shorter than my Breakaway (PL1.0) that I used during RATN. I didn't like it as much as PL1.0 so went back to that but I was doing 500k days on fuck all food so I didn't like much during that event! Now I just need to find it..

Ok, found it along with a Podium and an Attack.

Driving is a whole other kettle of fish. Get me in a warm car after an event and it's the one time I can actually sleep in transport. Not great if you're driving home but that's why I normally would drive for 30-60min post event while adrenalin is high to a services and then kip in the car. Then I'm normally pretty good for the remainder of the trip depending how long it is. Now I don't have a car so I don't care. :)

driving 10km home after riding a 400

Yeah I had a scary experience with this after doing a 400 as well that really taught me a lesson. Fell asleep at the wheel for a split second. Ended up sleeping in a lay-by for an hour before continuing. Always take sleeping bag now to longer Audaxes just in case.

I did this after the first frontier300, when they fucked up a bit and all the food trucks closed shop before most poeple got back. so hungry i couldnt sleep, packed up the tent and drove to a services, gorged myself and slept the best sleep ever in a boiling car

I had a look and mine is the FIZIK Terra Argo X5 in 160 mm and I've got a note next to it to look for a skinnier one.

I've just installed my RATN-used PN3.0 on the Mason and it feels gross, so I guess some tweaks might be needed and some adaptation.

Anyone used the Prologo Scratch MTB saddles? Read some peeps using them on TD and figured it was worth a try. Always annoying when 60kg riders finish some ultra with "oh, no real saddle issues". Skinny pricks.

Here's one for the hand pain crew

Tunnel Of Guyon Syndrome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qZT4EdosCQ

Missus has some tingly fingers after MC1k and she's found these exercises to be more effective than the 'trapped arm nerve' flossing ones.

Anyone riding Bright Midnight this year? Or rode last year? Looked like it was a wet one.

Been dotwatching HMR and HT550

Alex had a silly lead on the HT that's getting pegged back, wondering if it'll be a no sleep run. Was also following El Jaskowska and surprised the Tailfin roll failed spectacularly

on the HMR I've never heard of Floris (who has 4 followers on IG) but he's also got a bit of a gap up front

Technical-ish question; as said before, dipping my toe in with a 500km event at the end of the month. Going to adapt my bikepacking setup for the ride itself, but pondering cassettes. After 200km or so, I've got the Ventoux to go up from Malaucene and thinking about moving from my 11-34 to a -36 or even a -40. Good idea? Pointless? I found the Ventoux a bit tough last weekend and that was without 200km and a 4am start in the legs.

On the plus side, the route has changed, cutting out climbing the gorges de verdun in the middle of the night which was my least favourite part of the whole thing.

Ventoux is tough!!! 40 for sure.

No one has ever been climbing a mountain wishing for harder gearing.

So much this.

#hippyisoftenright

Thanks all. I was going to ride my Kinesis but a 500km road ride on French roads isn't really like TnR and I don't think I need the added ruggedness so it's my Winspace instead (maybe with an alloy dynamo front)

Lael doing a round the world record attempt. Well on her way through Europe now.

She has worked out a relatively easy route so hard to see her not getting Jenny Graham's record. The route might make others think Mark Beaumont's could be achievable.

https://followmychallenge.com/event/767/

https://www.laelwilcox.net/timeline

Is that diversion into northern france/netherlands really preferable to going through the alps? I mean, I know it's hilly but that's a lot of miles around and why not cut east earlier? Also, how does it work that she appears to be missing out all of Asia? Maybe that route just not published yet as she waits for visas or something?

I know I'm always a naysayer and downer, and I say this as someone who once really wanted to do this record myself, but it's stupid and pointless. Ride a few km on some continent, fly to the next, then say you've gone around the world

Breaking the if you've not got anything nice to say don't say anything at all.