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Bicycle touring equipment kit list
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. The idea is to design your bicycle touring equipment kit list so well that you don’t even need to think about it when you go on your cycle trip. To begin with you will have to get [...]
Posted in Constructive Ranting, Expedition Journal Also tagged bicycle touring, chainreaction, Cycling, equipment, expedition design, Extrawheel, forks, kit list, magura, Mountain Biking, panniers, rack, sun, Touring Leave a comment
Curry, Dolma and Wilderness Mountain Biking in Armenia
Tom emailed me last week to tell me he was going to follow an old man on a horse to a hot spring at 3000m. That sounded like my idea of fun so I decided to go to Yerevan and do it. I went to the bus station in Ortachala in Tbilisi at 9.30 am [...]
A Caucausus Mountain Bike adventure in Khevsureti
Tom, David and I went for a bike ride into the Caucasus mountains of Georgia. I’d been planning it for a while and I wanted to get some proper riding in before the snows descended. Tom arrived on the Sunday but leaving was delayed until Tuesday. To pass the time we decided to build up [...]
Posted in Asia, Expedition Journal, Georgia, Mountain Biking Also tagged bread, Caucasus, cheese, Dogs, epic, Extrawheel, Food, Khevsureti, mountain bike, Mountains, mtb, off-road, Tbilisi, tour, trailer, wilderness 1 Comment
New Kona Caldera Mountain Bike Frame
On Monday I received a shiny new Kona Caldera aluminium hardtail mountain bike frame from Kona. They supported Tom and I with our Explosif frames. However, my frame came a cropper in New Delhi when it snapped near the rear dropout (after 16k of riding loaded with luggage). I was able to get it welded [...]
Posted in Expedition Journal Also tagged aluminium, Bike, bruce lee, caldera, Cycling, frame, mountain bike, Mountain Biking, quote, red, review, shiny, sponsorship, steel, Wisdom 1 Comment
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