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One of the biggest issues with routing in Germany generally using heatmap - so many trails and hard to tell what's paved and what isn't!

Same. Wish strava would split road/mtb types instead of just cycle/running.

On that topic, I threw this together following @skinny's prompting on twitter. Layer ridewithgps/gpx routes over strava heatmap: https://routecheck.cc/

(probably needs a recent browser, tested in chrome & safari)

Maybe I should borrow one for the Dunwich Dynamo and see how I get along with it.

Random cheap-seat opinion but if you've got the chance try eTap, and you're not committed one way or the other yet.. why not. Even the bottom end SRAM hydro is lovely, and you'd get to skip all this cable routing faff forever.

Have there been recent cases of rabies around the route? Obvs no guarantee but I though western Europe was "rabies free".

A few years ago (my last year in the UK) I took a couple of first-timer friends on the ride, and did the 30 miles on to Ipswich. I think the trains weren't taking bikes that year. Two things stand out:

• Swam at Dunwich for the first time. Amazingly good and I still feel like an idiot for not swimming the other three times. Get ya kit off and get in the sea - it doesn't look appealing from the beach but you won't regret it (probably).

• It started drizzling as we started up the beach road and it was raining by the time we hit the main road South. Then it became a full noise, heavy rain thunderstorm that didn't let up the entire way. We arrived at Ipswich wild eyed and soaked to the bone. I'm not a strong cyclist and that ~150 miles remains the longest ride I've ever done but despite the weather I regret nothing! and would do it again.

(If anyone's wondering, you can cycle in bib shorts after swimming in the sea. It's fine.)

Twice as far as TCR, following mechanicals right from the start and uh medicals later on, finishing 14th is bloody amazing.

Oh I hadn't thought about that - interesting.

Done and dusted!

Good time for the tracker to pack it in. Gotta be only a couple hours out now, if that.
Updated: 15 miles to go!

Battery life, I expect.

Nearly there hoppy

This terrain on the East side of Kentucky looks evil

Ugh - that feeling when you've got all the components of a complete new groupset down to the cables and bar tape.. but the wrong bottom bracket tool.

And still stopping to greet dot-watchers when less than 50 miles from the end, making it look easy.

Interesting thing hippy said about taking a warmer bivvy so as to be less dependent on hotels.. hotel beds are nice but having to haul ass to get to the next town on time takes a toll.

Jeez that's keen. He really wants the record.. 50 miles ahead of MH and 200 miles from the end it looks like, though his tracker is 2 hrs old so could have more of a gap in reality than it appears.

Hmm wait, grabbed this a few mins ago. Yep, waiting.

Webcam stalking hippy at the ferry crossing though might already be across - his tracker hasn't updated for 50 mins.

Sleeping through electrical storms is wise. I was trying to avoid one while homebound a few weeks ago and later learned a horse rider (& horse) were killed by lightning not far away.

Someone in the fb group found the incident report in the Kansas Highway Patrol log which appears to confirm the worst. Just awful, dreading the details to come.

Looks great, full pink frames like that are uncommon and really stand out. The example that springs to mind is this one from a tour back in 2010 - the cheeky bugger had a triple on it too. It's the only bike from the group that I can still recall, the rest were forgettable carbon and bare titanium stuff.

I saw at least one without a derailleur, but may have been ihg

Sounds chipper, what was all that moaning about :)

"Currently eating leftover salad from shopping bag with fingers. Struggle to stand again."

The most under-appreciated skill in cycling is the ability to just eat any damn thing at any time of the day, hungry or not. Squishy brown banana, stale old sandwich, hand salad, etc.

The use of pink and blue bugs me. Quicker access to filters in the map ui would obviate the need for colors at all.

Not saying it's acceptable, but the mount doesn't need to be parallel right? The caliper adapter has oval slots so you can finely adjust the location and angle of the caliper. That said, it shouldn't make the bracket foul the actual disc - that's a dealbreaker. Also wouldn't that make the dropout no longer square to the hub axle?

My Burls has couple mm gap at the fork crown with a King headset.. couldn't figure out why exactly and it was never a functional issue so forgot about it.