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And then you wear it out and need to buy everything again next year.
But this is actually a great light while being cheap.
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Interesting!
The NCT race route is not really comparable to the record attemtpts, because it chooses the backroads, gravel and big climbs. And ferry between Finland and Estonia instead of riding via Russia. And it 1000 km longer. It would be exciting to have the race on a potential continent crossing record route, but in practice it would mean big, busy roads, instead of the adventure it was. But still, Steffen rode that in 21 days.
I met Ian in Meteora, nice guy. Good luck to him.
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Indeed, elegant. I use it for commuting and short training rides etc. now
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Pelago Sibbo. I like the road bike like geometry, while it has clearance for decent gravel tyres.
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I've used the same light for a few years, in different locations. Mostly under the Bagman or seatstay, so not directly in the spray, but this has been fine through this winter too, and the same light has been through years of use. But yeah the open bottom should not be placed so that water is directed on it.
The red part is also a reflector, which is nice.
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The Special Ed he refers to is this guy https://instagram.com/oulufixed?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=1jbwftqfadn8w
So not a professional framebuilder, but has built a few nice bikes and modified many. He's added a braze-on and pulled out a dent on my Sibbo too.
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Yeah it's nice, and seems to work for him, here's a picture of it after a 300km gravel race
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This has a Straggler 650b fork on it
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Seems like the mentioned steamroller is still in one piece
http://www.yksivaihde.net/site/foorumi/topic.php?id=23170&page=5#post-790926As is this https://flic.kr/p/21v6xGJ
And there's some others too, and similarly modified Pelago San Sebastians.
https://rmk.ee/en
https://loodusegakoos.ee/where-to-go/search-options
https://bikepackingestonia.com/blog/
https://en.camping.info/campsites
I've been riding there a few times. The wind isn't that bad really, though of course you can have bad luck and as the landscape is so open and flat, there's nothing to block it really, so it's free to blow from the sea.
Avoid the the biggest roads, like the 4/E67/Via Baltica along the coast south of Pärnu. The smaller roads are mostly very qiuet, from what I've seen.
The islands are nice, might be pretty quiet now before the tourist season. There's castles and everything. I ended up in a monastery having tea with a greek nun there too once, was interesting. As are the ferries, simple old things.
The abandoned prison and mine in Rummu are interesting. Kind of an unofficial tourist attraction.
There's lots of interesting little villages. People are moving away from the countryside it seems, so rather empty if you choose smaller roads. Smaller roads tend to be gravel occasionally.