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170 odd miles to go, they could finish today ? Great effort

Backpack with sleeping back and other equipment.

If the sleeping bag is heavy it may be preferable to get it in the seat pack and off your back

Inspiring riding, such a great effort from normal riders.
The videos from near the finish capture the joy and effort for the top 3 placings

Go Gabes

Watching the front of the race unfold is a bit like watching some kind of video game, I have to remind myself how hard they must actually be going.

Just been catching up on various reports online, some inspiring riders doing this.
The story of the lady and the bear!!!!

The photos of all the different set ups is interesting and good to see Gabes in a couple.

Gabes, I don't know you but hope you have a great ride and everything stays together. Will be following and rooting for you on your quest

Sad news, he certainly lived life to full commitment in what he belived and appeared to be a nice guy.

I hope everyone else read those in their best Charles voice!

I have not got a clue about these things, do you have any info on how the solo records are so good in comparison, perfect conditions, superhuman effort?

Last year I remember listening to some phone in reports from the entrants on an American podcast, have you signed up for that? (I think it was mtb.cast?)

A quick Google finds that they now do a permanent spray

This, or something similar, was available last year not branded as Volvo. It was very effective but as has been said it does not last very long. It was also expensive at £20+ a can.
They had a version which you could spray on animals without any unpleasant side effects which they marketed to stables etc

Yes that sounds sensible, I was just concerned that I may get a bad reputation score for cancelling a sale or if he would have any further come backs in the future

Sold an item on ebay, winning buyer messaged me a couple of days later to say can I cancel the sale as he no longer wants it, he had a sniper on two items the same and won them both. Am I better to cancel the transaction or open an unpaid item report? (FYI I am new toselling on ebay)

http://youtu.be/AXY6fQUDr3o

Next January they could just keep going until one of them drops, then back count the previous 365 days to give the year!

What are the rules about publishing their mileage daily, could one of them go 'off grid' for the last two months and not publish mileage so the other could not just do enough each day?

Exped used to offer them, they where called Exped Crush dry bag the medium size fits laptops and is shaped as you describe. You may be able to find some old stock.

Hope you don't mind the suggestions but I always find a Buff versatile and useful to replace cap etc

Also I have recently got a multi port USB adapter thing as I always seem to have more than one USB device to charge when in a cafe/bar etc

Has the Salomon Switch event been mentioned?

Free to enter limited to 70 places, registratuion opens at 19.47 today

"Salomon has organised an event involving 70 runners participating in one run, through one city and each with one pair of brand new trail shoes.
Kicking off at 6pm on 11th September, starting in South West London, Salomon will lead a small group of runners on a secret 8km CityTrail run to discover the unknown in their area.
To equip each runner for this unique off-road experience, if you sign up for the Salomon Switch event you will be able to switch your old running shoes for a brand new pair of Salomon X-Scream CityTrail shoes."

Nemo Equipment do pole less tents (although their website appears to be down)

7ven recently did end to end and only took one bottle it was easy enough to fill it up at garages/chip shops/people in their garden/church grave yards!

You'll be missed

The weather forecast looks like previous years!

^ thanks freezing77 all sorted now, I should have been able to work that out for myself!!

I am trying to load the Exmouth Exodus route from their website onto a Garmin and am stuck as it only appears to save in text format (when I 'save as' ), can someone help with what I need to do to convert this to a GPX file that I can load onto the Garmin

Beginning to look forward to this