Cycling to the south pole - BBC

Cycling to the south pole...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16345232

that will be interesting, considering the wind speeds :-/

[QUOTE]She also won't be taking a puncture repair kit with her as it is extremely unlikely the tyres will puncture due to the steel belts woven inside./QUOTE]
uh oh!

Its only got one brake

It is designed to be as minimalist as possible, to make it aerodynamic

The tubeless rubber tyres measuring 50cm (20in) high and 20cm wide
hmm. stick some gatorskins on there ...

82kg of kit.. packing light.. that's just the brandy.

Best of luck to her.

Has anybody told her not to lean?

Yes. Scoble is her coach.

The saddle is made of extra-tough organic leather and copper rivets. "A plastic seat would shatter like glass in Antarctica's sub-zero weather," says Fortune.

Brooks B17 Select? Wrong colour though. If I were them I'd certainly be making an antarctic explorer special edition, fits right in with their Edwardian image.

What a joke of a bike. No doubt she had that especially made for her but by who?...the scrapheap challenge team? I would have thought that a fat bike with an internally geared hub would have ridden better, weighed less whilst still being able to pull cargo and reduced the potential for mechanicals to occur.

Maybe they're worried about the internals freezing up?

I thought that, but would the lubrication oil handle the cold? I'm sure they must have considered a Rohloff.

handy pointers to seat, brakes, wheels etc on that pic.....

To be honnest, gear cables would have seized long before the internal planetary gears of a hub where to stop functioning

The guys that built it seem to have snow experience. Do they use hub gears on the Iditarod?

Look at the height of the lower jockey wheel aswell, not prone to damage at all!

http://iditarodblogs.com/news/files/2011/03/Bike.jpg

http://www.alaskaultrasport.com/assets/Chickaloon%20River%20Feb.11%2008%20100.JPG

Looks normal to me.

Bleeding cold snapping fingers..

Beauty! Reminds me of the 3/16th chain I used to run on my street bike with two from chainrings

She's less than 100miles away at the minute.

...and made it, chapeau to her.

Not surprised shes made it,

shes done a desert ultra marathon thing for blue peter before. Real athlete in disguise she is.

More impressive than pretty much all of the traditional sporty blokes theyve had on the show.

Did anyone see the programme? 4.30 BBC1 - what sort of time is that?! Surely only kids and the unemployed will watch that?

And deaf people too, don't forget.