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Yeah, camping. I have midge hats!

Gabes...Did you use a Six Moon Lunar on the divide?

Indeed I did. I only pitched it a few times, as I had a bivvy with me too, and the weather was amazing. I only pitched when there was a mosquito issue really, or a risk of rain. Got rained on one night I think. It kept the nasty nasty Montanan mozzies out perfectly.

I've used it loads here too, and it's served me very well. The floor is very thin, I pitched in accidentally on a baby gorse bush in Wales earlier in the year, now it has a few small holes in the floor. Not a problem though.

haha!

Brown Rainbow Project

tl;dr

They look a lot like Black Rainbow stuff.

Block them.

They have click tourettes.

My credit card got cloned on Tour Divide, someone spent $2000 on it in a clothes store in New York, while I was in the middle of the Great Basin, Wyoming. Got the money back of the bank already, so no biggy.

Finally got my pics up on flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHskgAJkFA

End of sept is looking better for me, moving house end of august.

I'm feeling pretty great post divide. Got the odd cramp here and there for a couple of weeks, but that's worn off now...

My 2.4s are 2.4, might the rims you have? I'm running 35mm rims.

X-fusion HiLo dropper comes in 27.2, I have one, still going strong after 3 years and one oil change.

I ate nothing but sugar for 3 weeks, but then I was riding most of 18 hours a day for 21.5 days. So much sugar, all my fillings fell out and I need a long appointment at the dentist to sort it out.

Well, I finished Tour Divide, and I dropped around 7Kg in 3 weeks. I can see my ribs. I'm now bang on 69Kg, that's 30kg less than I was 3 years ago.

Okay, so tubeless will be about £180 before tyres (how much are tubeless tyres? What else would I need)? I could do MT35s with Continental X-King 29 x 2.2 for £130 (merlincycles.com/shimano-29er­-mtb-wheel-sale-tyres-tubes-76373.html). I think I'll just do that, unless anyone thinks that's dumb.

Continental X-Kings are great, but spend the money on the ProTection model, about £45 per tyre, but they'll last. I have a pair that have done over 4000 miles around the UK without a single puncture and still have plenty of tread on, and another pair that did Tour Divide that again had no punctures and have tread to spare. Superb tyres, fast rolling on road, grippy enough in mud.

I met Jill a couple of times on route, she was having a really tough time. I'm glad she had the sense to stop riding and recover. There's always next time!

Prav, was great to see you at the weekend, has been too long! Not sure I can make this as I'll be moving house around then, but I'm thinking of riding up later in the month, so we'll get a ride/beers in then!

Boags,

I need some Afan, full suspension fun in my life. I've seen a lifetimes worth of washboarded gravel roads.

When you thinking?

gopher?

I met a few bears.

One Grizzly by a road, 2 black bears on trails. None too close thankfully.

I also encountered a Mountain Lion at night, that thing was huge, and fortunately, wasn't interested in me. I pedalled hard to get away from that one.

I also saw millions of chipmunks, gophers, ground squirrels. And with 5 miles to go, I had a buffalo running alongside me. Scary in dark!

Suffer score 5143!
https://www.strava.com/activities/341380125

Strava is up.

Quite the suffer score! https://www.strava.com/activities/341380125/overview

I didn't eat any pie, Pie Town was closed when I went through at 7am.

cunts.

you going to be calling into MTBCast while you're out there?

I doubt it. Instagram/FB updates and trackleaders is enough I think. I'll be trying to keep pedalling as many hours a day as I can really. About to head to Heathrow now! NERVES. MUCH.

They only differ in that they didn't leave with the 'Grand Depart' We all have to follow the same rules, like no drafting, no kit sharing, no food sharing, etc. But, there is the natural (small) advantage for GD racers that there are lots of tyres tracks to follow in some place. And I think the knowledge other people are on route with you probably give a small sense of security.

There may be photos etc uploaded to this thread on bikepacking.net too http://www.bikepacking.net/forum/ultra-racing/tour-divide-2015-race-discussion-thread/msg74272/#new

Check it from time to time.