Ultraheavy Touring & Altitudes
12-28-15, 09:06 PM
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Found a good bike for you!
Wouldn't want to go too light and make anyone think you're a pansy.
You could rig some panniers full of sandbags on that thing to prove to everyone just how badass you are too.
Oh, and make sure you eat everything you can before you tour. The more you weigh, the better! Who wants to go at bike speeds when you can walk? In fact why would anyone want to bike up hills when you can walk your bike up them?
Oh, don't forget to spend the next fifteen months calculating gear inches and dividing the numbers by the square root of pi, so you know you have the right gearing to get off your bike and walk it up those hills!
Make sure you get good maps and find a good, pre-packaged, cookie cutter route! Going 4 miles a day takes a lot of forethought, wouldn't want to get lost!
If you have any other questions let me know, I'm eager to help my fellow tourists!
12-28-15, 10:39 PM
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Two rear drive segments = left and right, plus one front wheel makes the kettenkraftrad pictured a "TRIKE" and not a "BIKE". LOL VBEG
Cheers
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12-29-15, 12:05 AM
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the nazi gear pictured would have, well, something like 21 wheels.
why not call it a half-track?
12-29-15, 01:42 AM
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This year I saw some of those UL bike racers up close. They make Twiggy look fat alright. Wuss burgers.
UH Rolls Royce had the 150 mph long distance record for years and years.
UH Rolls Royce had the 150 mph long distance record for years and years.
12-29-15, 09:24 AM
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12-29-15, 09:31 AM
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In nazaré, Portugal, near the garret mcnamara world record wave.
If you want to check some of my trips
as nossas viagens: Bem Vindo
In portuguese, but with google translate button
The biggest trip was Ireland portugal 2200km self supported, no money spent during trip, 22 days, food for 10days, and bought food for the other 10days halfway
If you want to check some of my trips
as nossas viagens: Bem Vindo
In portuguese, but with google translate button
The biggest trip was Ireland portugal 2200km self supported, no money spent during trip, 22 days, food for 10days, and bought food for the other 10days halfway
12-29-15, 11:06 AM
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I suspect that this thread will not reach 990 posts, but give it a few years and it might.
You will have to guess which one of these bikes is mine. All but two of them has four panniers. I thought this was normal, but after reading some of the ultra-light stuff on other threads, it is obvious that every bike in this photo is owned by a closet hoarder that carries a spare kitchen sink in case their primary kitchen sink springs a leak.
The gal in the photos below was on year seven of her extended bike tour when I met her, she said her bike had over 100,000 km on it. She had not been to Antarctica or South America (yet?), but had been on virtually every other continent, some continents more than once. She was packed heavier than me.
You will have to guess which one of these bikes is mine. All but two of them has four panniers. I thought this was normal, but after reading some of the ultra-light stuff on other threads, it is obvious that every bike in this photo is owned by a closet hoarder that carries a spare kitchen sink in case their primary kitchen sink springs a leak.
The gal in the photos below was on year seven of her extended bike tour when I met her, she said her bike had over 100,000 km on it. She had not been to Antarctica or South America (yet?), but had been on virtually every other continent, some continents more than once. She was packed heavier than me.
12-29-15, 11:11 AM
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That means this is a good thread unlike that other one which was a good thread until the trolls took it over.
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There's just a lot of stuff you really don't need on a bicycle tour. Also there is backpacking gear much better suited for bicycle touring. Riding a 100lb bicycle is way different than a 40lb bicycle and gear. Yes! and I think 40 lb. is much safer, steering and braking. No reason to pack for car camping on a bicycle. You might as well bring the car also. You can ride with a partner and do the 2 car shuffle, then you're just doing a string of day rides, and carrying close to nothing on the bicycle.
And it still is a bicycle tour.
And it still is a bicycle tour.
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12-29-15, 03:14 PM
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Found a good bike for you!
Wouldn't want to go too light and make anyone think you're a pansy.
You could rig some panniers full of sandbags on that thing to prove to everyone just how badass you are too.
Oh, and make sure you eat everything you can before you tour. The more you weigh, the better! Who wants to go at bike speeds when you can walk? In fact why would anyone want to bike up hills when you can walk your bike up them?
Oh, don't forget to spend the next fifteen months calculating gear inches and dividing the numbers by the square root of pi, so you know you have the right gearing to get off your bike and walk it up those hills!
Make sure you get good maps and find a good, pre-packaged, cookie cutter route! Going 4 miles a day takes a lot of forethought, wouldn't want to get lost!
If you have any other questions let me know, I'm eager to help my fellow tourists!
Hell yeah, you tell those jokers! On my last tour I got rid of my seat and seatpost and saved over a pound of weight. The little disc of foam I use in it's place weighs less than 1oz and is plenty comfortable so long as I don't sit on it ; )
12-29-15, 07:29 PM
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There's just a lot of stuff you really don't need on a bicycle tour. Also there is backpacking gear much better suited for bicycle touring. Riding a 100lb bicycle is way different than a 40lb bicycle and gear. Yes! and I think 40 lb. is much safer, steering and braking. No reason to pack for car camping on a bicycle. You might as well bring the car also. You can ride with a partner and do the 2 car shuffle, then you're just doing a string of day rides, and carrying close to nothing on the bicycle.
And it still is a bicycle tour.
And it still is a bicycle tour.
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