Crunty

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• Tour Divide

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 6 months

  

  How are people this hard? Is there some kind of regimen I can follow that will allow me to do this kind of shit? I rode a fixed gear bike for about 2 weeks a few years ago. Just going 20 flat miles was exhausting and I will never forget the absolute panic of going down a big hill.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 7 months

  

  Thanks!

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 7 months

  

  The website wont let me save the route I've spent a good hour or two adding to but the rough outline is here:

  https://cycle.travel/map/journey/420391

  I get the ferry to Rotterdam on Monday.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 7 months

  

  Essentially my entire trip depends on this happening to me. I'm relying on my body to adapt or I'm fucked.
  I'm currently adding heaps of cols to my route and cackling at the idea that Im somehow going to have the energy to do them. I know it doesnt make sense but Im gonna try anyway. Hopefully after two weeks of not sleeping I magically become superman.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 7 months

  

  I ended up driving to Alpkit Hathersage and getting another mat for 55 quid that has double the R rating. I slept in the garden last night and could still feel the cold coming up through my hip. Then I woke up an hour later so hot that my organs were failing so I stripped down to my crackers. A while after that I woke up freezing.

  Damn I envy you people that can even consider a good nights sleep minimal camping to be possible.
  Hasn't happened to me yet. Ranges from zero to "actually that wasn't completely horrific, just really terrible"

  I only managed an hour or two of sleep each night on my first tour. I was determined to make good sleep a priority this time round especially as I'll be away a long time. Not really sure I've managed it. It's such hard work trying to sleep in a tent I feel like I'm awake every 40 mins to spend 5 mins fucking about trying to roll over and get comfy again.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 7 months

  

  It takes up a huge amount of space. I quit my job to go on a tour but I've had 2 weeks off before I start and I think it's just too much time to overthink things.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 7 months

  

  Anybody got any thoughts on if it's a really shit idea to lug a closed cell foam mat around europe this summer because my inflatable mat has fuck all insulation and I think it will make a huge difference in the Alps and mountains in France in may?
  I want to take it really badly but I equally really don't want to carry it.

• Generic Touring Thread

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 1 year, 8 months

  

  What did you sleep in? Nobody wants to carry loads of weight

• Raleigh Randonneur rudderless redo

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• Raleigh Randonneur rudderless redo

  in Current Projects • 1 year, 9 months

  

  This project is back up and running again. I got covid around this time last year and it fucked me up a fair bit. I was okish after 3 or 4 months but was completely unmotivated to ride my bike for the rest of the year. Cycling is definitely back in my life as I want to go on as many trips as I can this year.

  None of my initial plans for this bike have changed. I have recently bought a bunch more second hand parts and some cheap new bits and I should just about have everything to make a working bike.

  I'm hoping to get the frame powder coated ASAP.

  I don't really want to talk so much about parts and thoughts because it just goes on an on. Hopefully will have some quick progress from here and some photos.