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Regarding the "blockade" of Kaliningrad.
The transit through Lithuania is not blocked nor stopped.
Only around 1% of transported goods are not allowed at this moment.It also was not a spontaneous choice and gradually it will cover more sectors:
from July 10: Alcohol, cement and some other misc. stuff.
from August 10: Coal
from December 5: Oil and some oil related productsSo basically it really is nothing but a storm in a teacup yet Russia is milking the situation as hard as it can.
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Oh, this is amazing. Perhaps it's for the better we weren't fast enough to cross that border.
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Exactly this.
It's not like Lithuania is doing anything on it's own- we merely follow the sanctions imposed by the EU.
I was also wondering why we can't just cut the transit completely but apparently there are some international laws that you have to allow it.
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It's nothing fancy - just a soma wolverine. For this tour I've removed the fenders.
I wanted a budget commuter + touring bike and somehow ended up acquiring the bling parts like klampers, nitto sim works bits and so on.
Can't say I like it very much - it feels very rigid in comparison to my other bike (Stelbel nina) but maybe it's not just the quality of steel that is different but carbon parts on the other bike as well.
But I like it slightly more after this trip. In general I think it's a very nice multi purpose bike.
Oh and dynamo hub is truly amazing - from now on i'll be putting it on all the bikes I have.
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Can you elaborate on the illegal border crossing?
That one was a strange one - there was a way through the mountains which we wanted to take that would get us from Bosnia to Montenegro - komoot routed through it, maps.me routed through it, not sure about google. We started climbing and police car caught up with us. The guys were very polite and warm (as with all the people there) and said that we can't continue - problems.
Having already climbed some 400 vertical meters we didn't want to to turn around as the border was like 10 kilometers away but they didn't want to let us continue. We asked what sort of problems would we face - would it be fine or jail or what but they weren't very explanatory about it just pointed us to an official border crossing where we had our passports checked, got stamps and so on.
We thought maybe they wanted some bribe or something but then the other day, a guy from another village we stayed in - Grahovo - warned us in advance not to go some way that leads towards Bosnia because many travellers take it and get turned around.
So from what I understood - Bosnia / Montenegro border crossing must be made through official border checkpoints and not all the roads have those and this rule also does not apply to locals.
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It was on the way from Plužine to Durmitor National park. The climb took an entire day.
We did a loop: Dubrovnik - Mostar - Plužine - Durmitor National park - Kotor - Dubrovnik.We went on paved roads mostly because some gravel there is just brick sized rocks with 20% inclines. Amazing places indeed and it was super cheap.
A week of touring costed me roughly €550 including plane tickets (there were 4 of us and we would share apartments).
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No gravel in the Balkans. Strongly recommend.
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Not really but my flexibility is good, in general.
I've been "prescribed" some knee stability exercises by kinesiotherapist which I do from time to time but not very regularly (mostly when I start feeling some pain again).
Anyway, I went on a tour and chose to ride in my sandals instead of s-works.
Worked out just fine, I was expecting it to be way worse.Whenever I'd feel some fatigue or discomfort in the knee I'd just move it more towards the bottom bracket. I wonder if my knees would be better off if I went with spd.
27.5 x 2.2"