Category: Tour Divide
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Tour Divide: 5, Mistakes
Last post on the Divide for a while, then I’ll stop smacking on this dead horse meat. These are things I screwed up, that cost me time in the race. Knees The first day, it was snaining, cold, and I…
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Tour Divide: Part 4, The Route
I loved this route, and I hated racing it. It isn’t a technical ride. There’s almost no singletrack. But it is does go through the mountains, and it’s best on a mountain bike. I guess whether that makes it count…
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Tour Divide: Part 3, Gear
Part 1 Part 2 Pack list I did another post about this right after I got back in July, but it was kind of half-assed and disorganized. Anyway, real techy bike geek stuff follows: Electronics Some people use GPS, and…
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Tour Divide: Part 2, Cost and Food
Continued from yesterday. Part 1 Cost I saved about two grand for the race including travel costs, and it wasn’t enough. But after graduating, moving to Colorado, and barely making rent all winter, it was the best I could scrape…
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Some More Thoughts on the Tour Divide: Part 1
I’ve mentioned this before, but damn, what a hard race. It’s not that it’s technically difficult- if you can ride down a bike path you’ve pretty much got the necessary handling skills dialed in. It’s just so long. 2750 miles…
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Tour Divide
Also on the Dirt Rag I haven’t been able to sleep- every night I wake up, thinking that I still have more miles to ride to the border. “No, Colleen already picked you up, it’s over,” I tell myself. Then…
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Tour Divide 2014: the start
“Adventure is a mark of incompetence.” – Vilhjalmur Stefansson After being breifly detained and seached for the devil's lettuce at the border (again), Colleen and I made it to Banff last night. Tomorrow morning I'll start the long ride…
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Great Divide Pack List
The stuff. When it’s all laid out, it doesn’t look like much for a few weeks of living off the bike. But when I’m pushing it up a moutain road, it feels like a ton. All the bags were made…
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Two Months Out
A little less than two months out from Tour Divide. I'm starting to feel pretty good about the race. Since leaving Pennsylvania, I've been on my bike a lot. An hour commute in the morning, an hour and a half…
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Kokpelli’s Trail
Sweep, back flush the espresso machine, mop, last dishes, count the drawer. Lock the door to the café by six. Grocery store with Colleen. “How much food do you need to take?” “I think around 4000 calories’ll get me to…
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