Month: August 2013
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Biel to Aarau
Obviously my bike ride is loosing interest to my followers and in fact the readership is now back to folks doing searches that bring up my old posts. e.g. Scarpa hiking boots received as many hits yesterday as my latest post and my Silva Pedometer post from 6 years ago not far behind. Enough of…
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Yverdon to Biel
Firstly, for those of a curious disposition I’ve now biked 894 miles with 86 hours in the saddle spread over 15 biking days (average 59 miles per day),. My moving average has been 10.40mph. Plus I’ve had 11 rest days in my Les Gets apartment 🙂 Today I started later than normal it was sunny with…
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Biking from Les Gets to Yverdon les Bains
A bright and earlyish start from Les Gets on my streamlined bike sans panniers so considerably lighter and better balanced, I think. According to Strava I did the 28 miles to Evian in 90 minutes so I easily made the 10.10 sailing to Lausanne. Interestingly the price at £20 was exactly the same as crossing…
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Starting the next stage of my mega bike ride
Tomorrow I’m reluctantly moving on from my lovely apartment in Les Gets towards Zurich so that I can meet my big brother & nephew next weekend for a 70th birthday bash (and I’ve heard a whisper it’s his wife’s birthday too 🙂 ) I’m fully recovered from the ride here and the excellent Thierry has…
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Instrument bar for an Altus bar bag.
One of the annoyances on the ride down to Les Gets from Cambridge was that at every cafe stop (of which there were many) I had to struggle to disengage the GPS & iPhone from their handlebar mounts plus the iPhone couldn’t be used in landscape mode due to there been no space left on…
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The centre pull generation,
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…
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Spot the difference?
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…
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Cambridge to Les Gets 2013 route
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…
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Day 13 – Final day into Les Gets
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…
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Day 11 Marnay to Hotel des Lacs
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…