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He's a cyborg doing it in 12 days, only 9 days faster than me, but he had diversions and support. Now he's done the PR run, I'd like for him to go back and do it properly and see if he can break Mike's record...

That's 7 frame builder months, so 14 months.

@TTM http://torusbicycles.co.uk/P902/product

I have two of their handlebars and a stem, great quality stuff

Better?

First ride on this today, needs the dropper post installed, and bars rotating a bit, but man, the pinion is amazing.

Only waited 2.5 years for this, will be here early Jan.

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When you toggle a ride between public/private, strava recalculates the leaderboard. So that doesn't work. Strava's privacy model is pretty terrible.

You got lucky, there's heaps of deer, and crypto is rife in UK waterways. I filtered on HTR, no tabs though.

Compare it to Zwift which is 2x the cost that you'd use for a few hours a week.

Zwift is not actual cycling

Komoot are spending a lot of money getting people to promote them, but their route planning tool isn't really any good, definitely not as good as RWGPS. Also they publish shit like https://twitter.com/richardf/status/1259763510118137856

I Second this RWGPS is a much better route planner, Komoot is super clunky and tries to be too clever.

I've been using RWGPS for years and will stick with it for planning.

I doubt Matt Lee will allow it to go ahead. Even if it does, why would you want to go to the US right now ,through airports/transit hubs, etc.

Also, some gateway communities have already been really badly affected by Covid-19 due to lockdown tourists wanting to get away from urban areas.

Yeah I knew about youtube. I just listened to some of the interview with Nelson Trees about SRMR and AMR, really interesting, but again, Lewis annoyed the shit out of me with his like, pause for ages (even at 1.5x) like thingy I'm tryna say like what.... Make a sentence man.

How did I never notice that spotify has a speed thingy! 1.5x is great!

Was good. I find Lewis slightly annoying (it takes him so long to make a coherent sentence) but Kurt is a top chap and has put so much work in to bikepacking roots, real love for it.

Kurt is the chuck norris of bikepacking

Ugh, all your turbo time dude, ugh ugh. You must really hate yourself.

I just got the Wild West route guide book, I'm really excited to start planning to ride this in the next couple of years. More remote and rugged than Tour Divide, and you're not allowed to race on the route (lots of first nation land etc)

https://bikepacking.com/routes/wild-west-route/
https://www.bikepackingroots.org/wild-west-route.html

Meh. I rode that, and it was deeper than that too.

He's a nutcase, he was NoBo while I was sunbathing on Brazos Ridge. He was in such high spirits and really made my day. Super nice bloke.

It should be, it goes through some very remote communities with no healthcare

see https://www.bikepackingroots.org/news/giving-gateway-communities-space-and-time-during-covid-19

Not TD, but gives you some idea

yeah fuck that.

Also. No hills, must be so boring!

I think a lot of people's views on this are taken from the fact that so many other races have lots of media coverage. IMO Tour Divide is about getting it done, all by yourself. You really shouldn't be exploiting it for sponsorship or attention, you should just ride and take your own pics/video. If that slows you down and that bothers you, don't do it. Mike Hall didn't even take a smartphone cos it's a time suck.

In my view it's just about the most purist of the self-supported races out there, and I love it for its lack of corruption especially now that bikepacking ultras are so common/well covered. It's the total opposite of SRMBR TransContinental etc. No instagram account, not even a proper website. Just Matt Lee on email administering the entries and DQing people who cheat.