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Being very blunt, Carlos's poster is crap, 5 mins of a native speakers time would transform it though.

Well, sorry in the name of all non-native-english for failing to learn your (crappy*) language so you can understand us :D, maybe you could just learn spanish and you'll be the one having trouble expressing yourself... at least you'll learn a lot of empathy in the process. I feel your pain when "guiris" come to "el mediterraneo" and can't even ask for a "cerveza".

• And I say crappy because... English is a language that has Spelling Competition!! I mean... you can't correlate what you read with how its pronounced... either you have a native speaker teaching you "his pronunciation" or you're pretty much going to figure out yourself. Curious that German for example its pretty straight away on that, you can learn to spell things based on the sound and vice versa in a week or so, or many other latin based languages I know. But yeah, sorry for making your life easier on the interwebz :D, go google translate!
  
  

Anyway Carlos is living on the UK to improve his english as well as giving you more reasons for Brexit (because apparently noone there wants to work at a Decathlon so they have to hire a guy like him... and we're the lazy ones they say 🙈 ).

Just help him instead of calling him out, that's all I was asking if I was there I would try to like I tried from here with @hippy.

That's what I think also, and because top-10 guys are involved in those disqualifications and some are still filling their boots with sponsors & stuff... meanwhile guys like Carlos work at a Decathlon that don't even recognize the talent they have there (they're thinking about cancelling his event)

1st and 2nd have received theirs, this guy hasn't, but worst thing is he's not being treated decently, banned at facebook group for asking, no email answers...

Carlos Mazon @CarlosBI (third guy at the finish line) still hasn't received his prize presents... he's living at UK, can someone help him? Really sad that he's treated so badly being such a nice guy. Mike isn't answering him, totally nuts

He's trying to do 8h non-stop at the Decathlon he works, but seems like people there aren't interested at all... not even on the LEJOG he's going to try

Same here big rider with Spyres without issues...

Internal cabling, and you want maintenance "on-the-road" ? :D Cabling my Kinesis was one of the most painful parts of the build from scratch process.

If you're as big as I am (6'3'' and about 87kg), get a 160 front rotor with those Spyres, the 140 at the back will be enough.

Also ask for the vertical tube bottle cage to be as down as possible, if you're thinking about a framebag, or you'll end up using a cage dropper Its still pretty easy to reach and swap bottles on the go if you use 750ml bottles.

Yes I've read here about it. There's about 7cm of difference between fork position and actual handlebar position, don't think its making so much difference on shadow casting since I didn't have any problems detecting potholes on the 400/600/1000 brevets. Anyway on important descents I'm using a helmet light to be more confident. I might get it back to the fork just to try out some small handlebar bags

Edit: I think the pothole shadow problem is not so important here in Spain on most roads, because most of our roads are not pitch-black, but a tone of grey. I remember @CarlosBI telling me that riding at night over wet black asphalt its like riding without lights... you can't see a thing! from his TransAm experience, and the roads around his home at Basque Country. I still need to do some practical tests, I remember two new roads that are black and I couldn't see much but knowing they were recently paved I wasn't fearing any obstacle, but on other really old ones I could even ride without a light... just with moon's light was enough

Instructions advice not to install lights upside down, but here there is little to no rain on summer, and I'm not riding at night on winter. That home silicone could work since cable entries have already a nice seal.

Anyway the whole point of doing this was to:
1- Get light closer to me, to be able to point it up/down easier if I was blinding oncoming traffic (no car flashed me to complain about it)
2- Get light higher to avoid creating a shadow with the front tire.

But the only good reason to do so, is if your fork doesn't have a hole to install it (most disc only forks doesn't) Also it prevented me from trying to use an small handlebar bag.

You got me thinking with those messages about recording commuting TSS (I do about an hour and a half each day) so... Got a PowerPod on the mailbox last week, tried twice (calibration ride, then just a commute), usb port stopped working (unable to connect to computer to update configuration, in fact 3 different laptops). Returning for refund asap.

Only good things I can say: calibration was quick and easy, numbers seemed ok once calibrated comparing with my power2max, even with sprints from redlight to redlight.

Thinking about second-hand stages/power2max now

I'm happy you finally got it sorted out, even it if took you a lot of waiting and emailing :(. Don't push to hard on that Doval until you adjust to it :) using the middle position of the 5 to choose its a nice start.

I think I got mine from Merlin, and they too where really slow when I needed them to send me the parts that where missing on the box.

Hope that you'll get back on the saddle soon!! :(

Thanks! So I should be sure to choose a crankse that keep the chainline in the same position.

Does the Brompton bottom bracket use an special standard, or its compatible with normal ones like BSA 68?

Great to read that @TurtleRecall!! Hope this new one keeps on for years :)

@hippy Just announced No. 3!! http://www.valleycat.cc/

Without emojis it's hard to know when someone is messing around with you 😬

By the way, thanks for discovering me that Mike Hall interview! There is also one with Kristof! I'm buying that documentary for tonight.

No no, I wasn't trying to imply that, sorry. I was trying to say that he didn't use any of those disc/di2/custom framebag, even it's assumed those have a better performance, and the real advantage came from his incredible high moving ratio.

Great to hear that, another successfull 140mm in the back :)

Would love to read those custom framebag tips too :). Anyway seeing what kristoff does each year, seems like equipment just needs to be reliable (no discs, no di2, no custom framebag... but a simple Decathlon handlebar bag)... and moving ratio is everything, even above watts/kg.

@skinny how do you manage to refill your framebag camelbak without a bidon when the only water source is a fountain? (assuming that it was at the bottom of the pocket, because weight reasons). Also how big is it, 70 or 100 oz?

I was discussing with @CarlosBI about your full framebag setup, like the one used by Lael on TABR. And the refill was the only disadvantage I could come up with, but having a 500ml bidon on the bottom of the diagonal tube or on the seatpost could be a solution... or just a cheap lightweight foldable silicone cup :)

@hippy so #TransAm next year instead of #TCRno5?

PS: Thanks for sharing on your blog your adventure! :)

Did the framebag worked great at the end? no leg rubbing?

Should read something about how much pesticides are used to grow vegetables

For those (with a facebook account) that liked reading @hippy 's tweets... vote here to make him win the "Apidura Adventure Stories Prize"

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