Tour Divide

If you don't sleep, you don't need kit.

Really interesting to see his minimal kit, will watch his other clips later. 👍

Compared to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfh7sk9C4Yk

What a transformation

Yeah, amazing to see what he achieved in six years.

https://journal.brooksengland.com/the-ultimate-recovery-ride/

Alan's a really nice good person

Yeah, I met him at the start of AMR. Had a good talk about Mexico City. Had no idea he'd been smashed up before doing TD.

Couple of days until this one starts.
Lael just cycled a lot of the route to reach the start.

http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide23f.ph­p
https://dotwatcher.cc/race/tour-divide-2023

http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide23f.php

Ulrich Bartholmoes on the start line!

Most interested to see alex vs lael

There’s also a dogpacker in there - Mira and John

Yeah that's the one, doh!
Be interesting after a couple of days to see how it shakes out, Lael might fancy it.

I just seen Alexandra has got Instagram. Everyone need follow her, she's the boss.

https://instagram.com/alexanderahouchin?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Cool! Yeh badass confirmed.

Some rouge kit choices out there, no names. Be interesting to see how it shakes out.

Goes off to check who has red kit...

Ha! Never could spell

Rogue

Great to see John and Mira lining up! Really enjoyed the content featuring them that the most cheerful man in the world, Ryan Van Duzer, filmed a couple of years ago.

I thought the names sounded familiar. I haven't watched that series yet.

I'll be looking out for April Drage, she is quite the smasher

Does he ever take sleeping gear? He probably looked and assumed he'd just ride through anything. Whereas the slower riders can't or won't push through.

When I bumped into him in Kyrgyzstan some years back, he didn't have sleeping gear. He was doing a training ride - from Paris to Hong Kong.

Kyrgyzstan

Many places to sleep there? Is it warm enough to just sleep out if you're in the valleys?

I met him at the guest house we were both staying in. He'd stopped to get his forks mended as he'd run over a child in Iran.

This was in the mountains, late autumn, it was sometimes warm enough to wear a t-shirt in the day. However, it was sub-zero at night. I was trekking, and it was waaay sub-zero at night with occasional waist-deep snow in the mountain passes. He had stories of sleeping in bus stations and truck stops, didn't mention sleeping out at all.

he'd run over a child in Iran.

Um

Yeah, if there's humans there's usually places to sleep and if you've already got warm and wet gear then you can get away with that if you can find a roof and/or some walls if the temp isn't too low.