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Out of interest, anyone on here on a Ketogenic diet, or ever tried it?

Several things have got my interest recently. A few talks I've watched online, and then today hearing Billy Rice is doing Tour Divide, twice, on a carb free diet (I'm assuming high fat, adequate protein) He's riding North Bound right now, on his own, then turning around on a tandem with his daughter and riding back south. That's 5400 miles and > 400,000 feet of climbing. He claimed in a call-in from New mexico today to have done 100 miles without extra food, and to be feeling great!

I use revo hub/light.
Then Sinewave revolution with a female connecter for the revo light cable soldered on (I have spares if people need, they are hard to find).

I then charge a cache battery when the light isn't in use, and have an inline low capacity battery for the garmin that can take charge at the same time as charging the garmin. Batteries that allow this are also hard to find!

I spent a fortune on battery packs before I found ones that I'm happy with.

Can't be as bad as anyone wearing a fucking team sky jersey. I actively ignore them on the road now. #fuckmurdoch

Boss just walked into the office wearing one of those Strava Gran Fondo jerseys.

Did you spit at him?

Amusingly the low point of the route is leaving Canada and entering the US.

^ He's a great dog!

Official route has been published.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/7979898

What's your Instagram name @gabes? Looking forward to following your adventure!

It's @turnpedal

Are you planning a taper or just going to carry on riding a bit and see how it goes?

I'm riding less, but still commuting (~60 miles per day, 3 days a week ish), I'll do a couple of 120+ mile shakedown rides too. Will go for some rides around Banff the couple of days before too probably, just to keep things moving.

Not sure tapering really applies to this. My race strategy follows Kent Peterson's "Start slow, and back off". It's all about knowing your limits, knowing when to shift muscle use if something starts hurting, and just riding for a long time each day. Eating a lot will also help!

Basically, fuck knows. We'll see in a few weeks!

I'll post up some links to follow, I'll be posting on instagram whenever I can (90% of the route is out of range of mobile networks), but when I stop in towns I'll update.

I'll also be on the tracker link I posted above.

He's doing it twice?!

Yeah, basically making the rest of us look like pussies!

he yoyoed the year before. Both races run at the same time I think (or overlap at least).

Him being on route now makes this all seem very real! 3 weeks, eek!

The first racer has started on an ITT. Billy Rice is riding NoBo (North Bound) to Banff, then swapping bikes to a tandem, and riding SoBo with his daughter! He's mad.

http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide15

Superstar components, theirs are quite popular

They are dangerous, a mate had the braking material sheer off the pad body, on both the front and back brake on a steep hill in Wales. Superstar were total dicks about it too, no replacements or money back.

Oh yes, I'm not expecting to sleep well the first few nights. Which is why I am not opting for the comfort of some lodge or YWCA in Banff, but camping with some friends just down the road towards Canmore at Lake Minnewanka (amazing name). At least that will help a little. Once I've been riding a couple of days, I fully expect to be able to sleep standing up.

Ha!

How much water do you normally carry? Bottle under down tube + camelback? Or are you also storing water in the frame bag.

Depends where I am. Normally just a camelbak. For Tour Divide I'm taking a camelbak with 2L capacity, 1L bottle on downtube, and I'm taking 2 x 2L platypus bladders for extra capacity through The Great Basin, and the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico.

Hey Scott,

Thanks! Yeah, I hope you get to run the gauntlet on the English, what a beauty, shame for it not to be used for its intended purpose. It's tough preparing for the divide, so much training, so much money to spend on kit, flights, then all the food en route. It doesn't really seem real yet, I'm sure it will that first night under a tarp when I think every noise is a bear coming to eat me!

I'll post up the trackleaders link in the next week or so once Matt Lee has set it up and finalised the route (some big changes this year).

That looks mint, not that I would know what to do with it! Are you gonna be doing a thread/write up for your trip?

Yeah, there's a thread https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/255193/

I'll take loads of pics and slowly get stuff up on a blog at some point

Just gonna leave my Tour Divide bike here. One month till I get started...

What's the race?

Tom! It has been too long indeed. You gotta come out for a beer when I'm in London later in the year to catch up with various lfgss people! Hope you're well!

There's another Lamb?

I don't know! I don't even live in London any more.

The Lamb on Lamb's Conduit St? Yes. I love that pub and haven't been there in at least 5 years.

Was kidding. Yeah, I'll probably ride it up anyway. Maybe in August/September... Will consult some beer drinking experts (@ ) as to where's best for a big piss up. Somewhere central-ish.

I had one for a year, I rode it a lot, and threw a lot of rough Welsh trail at it, and it was fine. The only big downside is the shitty press-fit bottom bracket. If you can find a frame with a threaded BB, then go for that, otherwise expect to be replacing the BB pretty often.