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  • A phone card for public phones

    Like the ones for midgets advertising their special services?

  • They're not really a thing in Australia like they are over here.

  • The calling cards I mean. Midgets, we get.

  • hippy. MrsO has my credit card clutched firmly in her hands. It will not slip out.

  • It's ok, we get on.

    Sponsorship isn't fussy about who knows the PIN... step this way...

  • Re:kit - look at anything made by PHD (UK and have sales and deals often), and Zpacks and Western Mountaineering. eBay also - lots of this stuff pops up for sale after people buy it and use it once then decide they want something more comfy.

    I'd get a quilt not a sleeping bag, and an ultralight cover and sleep under a bridge if it rains.

  • Also, half-sleeping-bags (PHD make these) are good: they go around your legs, then you wear a down jacket to bed (so you can use the jacket on and off the bike).

    Zpacks rain jacket is amazing and so is the new Rab Flashpoint jacket.

    You could look at buying a tarp and then using the bike to prop the tarp up: lighter + cheaper + more waterproof than a bivvy bag if you get it to work right.

    Didn't some guy do TransAm on an entirely liquid diet a few years ago?

  • Maybe not entirely:

    RAAM record holder for the Canadians, Jason Lane, started the race on a 100% liquid diet consisting of water and SPIZ supplement. Near the halfway mark, he was seen eating a cheesburger, but even still, he is blazing a path across the course and currently sitting in second place just 142 miles miles behind race leader Mike Hall.

    From this article.

  • Looks like he's well stocked up on something. Fuckdat


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  • I would so love to do this, and I see that they are inviting "tourists". I even got as far as raising the idea with MsGraunch and she seemed marginally supportive. I really have to stop reading this thread.

  • Just do it ;-)

  • Aren't many adventures left out there, this will be one hell of a way to see a country.

  • "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them."

    Ernest Hemingway

  • Most awesomeest quote of all time!

  • I like

    When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells

    and

    Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain

  • The second one is funny! And true.

  • Sorry to derail the thread further, but my favourite and the truest for me is

    I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it. --H.G. Wells

    Sounds like my attempts at 'recovery' rides.

  • ^ Quality.
    Ok Trans Am next year. For 2017;
    http://www.transoz.bike/

  • Tubeless wheels/tyres - lots of people mentioned with the gravel section on TCR these would've been useful. What about TransAm? I've heard there were some long sections of roadworks but there's no gravel roads to my knowledge? Any point thinking about tubeless? Steve A is using tubeless for his record attempt - they sound like a decent idea but I've also heard of issues - like them being hard to install and stuff like that.

  • "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!"
    Henri Desgrange

    My favourite....probably not very relevant though...

  • I'll be using gears because they're faster, not easier.

  • And you are over 45?

  • Stone or IQ?

  • They're something to test.

    I had 0 punctures running 27 open pave. I'm very happy with open pave.

    Might get some Tubless and do some crr testing and see about riding them.

  • I'm less concerned with speed and more concerned with durability, ease of use. I'm angry changing tubes at the best of times. I'd hate to think of the devastation I'd leave if I couldn't get a tubeless tyre back on in a sleep-deprived state... Tornado Alley indeed.

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