Talbot Fixed Tourer

@laner Where is your route again? Are you away now?

Found it. https://www.strava.com/routes/1604156

Ride Mt Lovcen for sure, it's easy fixed.

Enjoy. Bosnia is mad.

Two weeks to go! Slightly changed from that one, will copy josh's route in reverse from skopje to sarajevo then head along the danube to budapest and bratislava

but you'll miss mostar?

You away yet?
Albania is awesome!! You need to see Albania.

I'll be touring from saturday, so will miss you unfortunately. albania was one of the countries i was just planning to get through but i've been surprised by how many TCR racers enjoyed it so definitely looking forward to it now!

I don't know how to describe Albania. But it's mental. The national parks are some of the most beautiful countryside I've ever seen.

I will tell you that the people are lovely, so be on guard but at the same time we've only encountered kind people.

Let me have a look at your route?

Current route is copying Josh's route in reverse from Skopje to Sarajevo, then head north to meet up with the danube to follow it to Budapest.
Shame to miss Mostar, but it would add a fair few miles and a lot more hills!
You still aiming for Split?

Yeah split. We can ride a day and make it easy.

Can't wait to see Kotor again. And Dubrovnik. Everyone should tour here! Way more fun.

how did/are you getting on with no sleeping bag? looking at how warm it is at night i'm tempted to follow suit

Only camped a few times but no issues. Slept outside last night under stars in my silk bag liner, shorts and arctetyx jacket. Didn't get cold.
If you're in a tent you won't need a sleeping bag. If it does rain/be cold then just hotel it!

And you have to go to Skadarsko lake, then budva then kotor. Sack off porsogorica. Just cut left across the lake then the wiggly old road across mountain. Best road of my trip so far.

north or south side of the lake? current route was along the coast https://www.strava.com/routes/2715019

That's what we did. But went over the hill to see the national park and back.

But we took the 4k tunnel (cyclists prohibited) there. Got in trouble. Then climbed the mountain 2k FT back. Worth it for the views. The restaurant just over the bridge on the lake is cheap and awesome sea food!

In Macedonia, rack mounts snapped after a mile of gravelly Road. Drybag strapped to handlebars which is working fine. #friendsdontletfriendscarbonrackmount

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Can LFGSS now safely say it's not worth bonding any mounts onto expensive carbon forks? Always seems to cost aload of money and go horribly wrong

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Can LFGSS now safely say it's not worth bonding any mounts onto expensive carbon forks? Always seems to cost aload of money and go horribly wrong

I refuse to believe that it is impossible to do this, however so far it would appear to have been impossible to do this.

This is now my Everest.

Sucks.

But yeah dry bag to handlebars is something I've done for over 4000miles now and had no issue. Works fine.

Except if it bends your hydraulic cables so they split.

I'm surprised by how small the bond area was for those mounting points, actually - I would have expected much more fibre/fabric to have been used.

So that wasn't a Talbot bonding job? Whisky forks?

We sent it/sub-contracted to an established carbon repair&modification chap, theory being that they knew what they were doing.

I thought it was something like that. Shame it broke and good luck finding a fix... It does seem a bit strange that it's so difficult.

Did you get the lifetime warranty on this work? Sort of SRS q

Yes, the work came with a warranty- which is one of the reasons we used the sub-contractor. Which doesn't help Laner at this point, of course.

I'm surprised anyone is prepared to give a warranty for that. The load is always going to put the bond under a lot of pressure.