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i had my road bike packed in the unbreakable skicon boxTonyandthewhale wrote: »Yeah, whole new fork, 160e and lost a day's riding, bad buzz. Won't be flying with bikes again any time soon if I can help it, at least not without a solid bike box (which is not exactly practical on tour), bike bag and loads of aero-board is just not enough it seems.
when i got it in bilbao the wheel on the box was completely bent and the box cracked makes you wonder how the hell that happened.
last year going to france i was careful to lock my bike in a secure place on the ferry when i collected it next morning some dickhead bungy cored his manky mountain bike to it :mad: guess theres no where safe.:eek:0 -
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lads is anyone of you using the garmin hcx legent .i just pulled the trigger on one today on amazon.;) thing is i would have no idea how to use it
:D but what the hell anyway ,can i load free irish maps onto this thing obviously i want it for cycle touring around ireland and getting me to where i want to go 
as in follow that line brother and we will take you there.
ok so when i get it what is my best option in getting routes or maps onto it .
thanks lads i'm a geek at heart just like gadgets.:o
cheers
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sounds like a fantastic trip and your girlfriend to tour with you as well lucky sodTonyandthewhale wrote: »Met an American girl who'd started off in Sweden last time I was in Switerland. She seemed to have done a lot of touring and loved Sweden, said it was very tourist and generally cyclist friendly and they let you camp anywhere.
The girlfriend is doing an Erasmus in Finland next semester and wants to tour in Scandinavia so I'll possibly end up escorting her home through sweden and maybe Norway so if you ask again in a few months time I might have some first hand experience, what are you planning anywho?:D
i am thinking of going to Montana USA but its just wishful thinking at the moment but with a bit of luck you never know;)
try our crazyguyonabike for all the African info you might need .0 -
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Day 1, Tullamore, 83 miles.
Left Dublin Friday morning for Lough Boora Lakes / Bog / Heritage site, few miles outside Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
http://www.loughbooraparklands.com/
83 miles into basically headwind, SW, but as good as. Got a puncture just outside Clane, first puncture ever on the bike. Something I wasn't looking forward to. Alfine 8 and all that ensues. Popped a new tube in got pumping only for the valve to snap off. Brill. Next and last tube in no probs and went back into Clane to "PJ's Cycles" bought a couple of non descript new tubes. Got PJ himself to do a bit of pumping with his floor pump. Part of the deal, no?
On to Boora, the odd shower but fine. This was to be wild camping as I know the Park and used to fish there years ago.
Day 2, Saturday. 93 miles.
Left Boora at 7am. for Virginia, Co Cavan. Campsite.
Ferbane, Athlone, Edgeworthstown, Granard, Cavan Town and back down the N3 to Virginia, Lough Ramor Camping.
Well it rained virtually all day, had a "over my left shoulder" wind for most of the day. Not too bad. Saw alot of cars heading down to Mullingar 2 Day with bikes etc. Stepped in off the road a few times from torrential downpours.
OK, so out of Cavan Town and back down the N3. Puncture!!!!!. Smiled to myself this time. What can ya do? Dab hand at changing tubes now with hub gears. Decided to have a good look at the back tyre. Yep, bald enough and picked out several more flecks of glass. Got thinking, bike bought Jan 2011. Commuter. No punctures. Tyres never changed.
Going to order Schwalbe Marathons in about 5 minutes.
So, down to the campsite and jump into the shower and give the arse a good scrub.
Had fish n chips in town. Milk. That was nice.
German hippies arrived on site...........
A bit of Midland bog,
Lough Ree looking dark,
Day 3. Lough Ramor Campsite to Dublin. 60 miles.
..........with a tailwind all the way.
On the bike at 6:50 and gave it some. Gingerly sitting on the saddle waiting for a flat. Had to happen. Psyching my rear wheel to give out. Never did. Fecker.
Managed to get on to the M3 for a spell, mistakenly. Missed the turn for the old N3 somewhere the far side on Navan. Got only one beep.
Home.
235.9 miles. AV 13.7.0 -
your a howl planet x great report gret photos, i like you set up i'm trying to go lightweigh for the rest of the season:D
tell me what is the campsite like in virgina might pop over ther in the next few weeks i stayed in the one in mullingar very nice,
anyway well done your a big mile eater i try to keep it at 50to60 miles max but each to there own.;)0 -
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i had the marathon plus on my sherpa hated them to heavy and not great on wet tarmac.Schwalbe Marathons fitted this evening. Stunning tyre. Have them on my winter trainer aswell.
Ready to rock.
but i did get the supreams now these are the business light fast good puncture protection much better tyre IMHO.;)0 -
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Would be very interested in hearing what people have planned too I have two ideas in my head at the moment, depending on what kind of time off I have for next year. One is the Raid Alpine, which looks awesome and quite challenging. I'd probably do it self supported on a credit-card load with a race bike. That's basically a week, which I'll almost certainly do.
The other one is longer and I would do with a full touring load on my nice new bike Basically the Euro Velo Route 6, starting from Munich (where I live) and finishing at the Black See. This is the route I have for it, which follows the Danube for about 2100 km. I reckon it'd take about a month to do (I'm not Blorg), so it's not something that I can just go and do at the moment, unfortunately. It looks like a really nice entry into longer distance cycle touring, though, especially with the euro velo set up. 0 -
Hi to all the Bikepackers here
I did a tour last year starting in Vienna to the Carparthian Mounatins in Romania, had to stop cycling after 10 days unfortunatly because my knee did not want to go any further, still a great Tour. I took a train for the last piece of my route and spent a few days Hiking through the mountains, pushing up the bike and then mounting it again for the downhills. It was for sure the most exhausting thing I've done in my life, but also a great adventure.
It was a completely different travelling experiance for me, just stop wherever you want to and to travel on a bicycle just gives you so much more time to really experiance the journey. it's exhausting but also endorphine boosting.
Plus you can justify extensive beer consumption by your increased need for electrolytes:D
I definetly want more of it.
I moved to Ireland in August, but unfortunatly my bike was not ready to go until a few weeks ago and as my whole camping gear is still in austria I did not really go on a weekend trip so far. But next spring and summer I want to do some extensive discovery tours on the island. So far my explorations on the bike did not bring my further than kinsale, or the coastline between kinsale and cork, but what I've seen so far motivates me to ckeck out more...
I definetly want to do the eurovelo 1 or at least the route it is supposed to cover as soon as springtime comes, has anybody travelled that route? Is it just regular roads or are there parts without motorized traffic?
Well I'm going to see sooner or later.
some pics from last year
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The other one is longer and I would do with a full touring load on my nice new bike Basically the Euro Velo Route 6, starting from Munich (where I live) and finishing at the Black See. This is the route I have for it, which follows the Danube for about 2100 km. I reckon it'd take about a month to do (I'm not Blorg), so it's not something that I can just go and do at the moment, unfortunately. It looks like a really nice entry into longer distance cycle touring, though, especially with the euro velo set up.
Hi the route along the danube is nice, that's the way i took last year starting in vienna, the way through hungary and serbia is basically flat, you can make a lot of miles a day, there are many campsites and it's never hard to find supermarkets, bikeshops, bars cafes and whatever you need on the way. Many lovely cities.
The eurovelo 6 starts in france on the coast and goes to the black sea, maybe when I have time I'll do the wohle tour...0 -
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Day 1; 85 miles
Dublin Offaly via Blessington Kilcullen Kildare Portarlington Tullamore and Lough Boora Complex (again!).
85 miles of SW wind which was a bit of a grind at times. Going across the Curragh was tough, easier going up The Embankment to Blesso. Fish n Chips in Kildare Town slowed me down nicely.
Anyway down to Lough Boora where I wild camped for the night.......in the rain....messy.
Some nice "Sculptures" knockin' about the place.
Day 2; 80 miles.
Offaly to Cavan, this time a bit more overland off the beaten. Sampled some nice tail wind today in a generally overcast system. The promised scorched never got out of bed. More undulating as you cross country but what the heck.
Ferbane Mt. Temple Glasson Ballymahon E'town Castlepollard Oldcastle and Lough Ramor Campsite. Took a detour off the road to visit Fore Abbey complex.
http://www.thejournal.ie/moore-hall-fore-abbey-baginbun-places-to-visit-ireland-814454-Mar2013/?utm_source=shortlink
630AD, what the heck.......swing by for a look.
Fresh out of Mint Juleps.....dang!
I Love Bog,
Day 3; 56 miles.
On the road at 7am. but got the forecast Sunday night that I'd have a 10mph. headwind........again. Short ride but more wind. Sun came out when I hit Da Blanch probably for the first time all weekend (OK....some sun in the first shots!!) No probs, soon on the couch with coffee & remote.
Lough Ramor Campsite.
221 miles AV 12.6mph. (355K)0 -
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