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Today the excellent Thierry at Nevada Sports here in Les Gets gave my Dawes bike a good going over. Tightening the headstock, replacing the chain, replacing the brake blocks, oiling all the pull wires, fixing the broken pannier rack & resetting all the gears. He mainly specialises in downhill mountain bikes. Fixing with his team […]
Spot the difference? I thought it would be interesting to compare my two rides to Les Gets. The first ride was in August 2009 where I rode the 767 miles and in the saddle for 72.6 hours over the 10 days it took. This time in August 2013 I travelled […]
Using the Adze programme I stitched together all the GPS trails for my ride to Les Gets. Each day is given a different colour. There are a total of 25,471 points over the 761 miles (about 53 yards apart) Clicking on the map will download a file that you can open in Google Earth taking […]
I finally made it to my apartment in Les Gets 13 days after leaving Cambridge & with 76 hours perched on my Brooks B17 saddle. Total distance covered this time 774 miles (1237km) which means when moving I was averaging about 10mph. The day was very tough for me, as the profile shows: I’m not going […]
I think I’m going to need a pilot’s checklist before setting out each morning! Today I forgot to turn the Strava app on until I cycled over 6 miles 🙁 plus the cadence meter obviously was knocked out of alignment too, as Strava didn’t record my cadence. A pleasant day for biking although it’s getting […]
An excellent days riding with the weather now a lot colder in the morning. Made error Numero Uno when setting off this morning by going down a steep hill to find out at the bottom I was 180 degrees out 🙁 so had to pedal all the way back up. Varied scenery along the canals, […]
After a mega snore last night I packed and went along to breakfast. Great spread and uber friendly folks. How can some folks make running a hotel look so easy? Whilst others make it seem so hard. The day seemed very tough, it was hot and ‘close’ so progress was slow. The villages are very […]
2013-08-12 Vitry to Chaumont plus.google.com/photos/1118829…
Went out and left AC on, now freezing hotel room #FirstWorldProblems
And it’s tagliatelle again tonight! (@ Le Palmier) [pic]: 4sq.com/1d0jc7k