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You make me feel young. Yeah maybe it just feels like that for someone as young as I am, after riding the bike in quite a few setups and situations, somewhat different phases of life, in 22 countries and all that.

This old friend recently had it's 15th birthday, forgot to celebrate.

I was just helping someone get a smaller chainring for their bike and ended up changing the whole crankset, as it seemed to be so difficult to get the one that fit the FSA cranks. All of the direct mounts seem to do pretty much the same thing, but with a slightly different shape hole. I suppose they all want to be the one who invented the standard, they all might have their own patents, they might want to prevent mixing incompatible components but all of these might as well be compatible and you could just ride to the local bike shop and buy a chainring.
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Yes looks like he found enough side roads just next to the E87. Gravel, a bit of climbing.

The only part of the E87 that is allowed is that short section posted above.

They are not taking quite the same route as we did along the peninsula, E87 on the coast is banned now. You can see it on the same google map as before, they just update it every year.

There's a new bridge near Gallipoli, but it seems that's just a motorway, with some kind of maintenance walkways on the side, which are probably not open to use.

It is certainly nice to have the fork and rear suspension wouldn't be out of place either, but if a rigid bike was all I had I'd ride that. The trails are often rocky.

@Hulsroy Thanks. I'll keep that in mind, the topic is for the pictures so no point in compressing them.

Yeah, they are reindeer herders' cabins. There were no-one there now, I've heard they only use these in the spring when they are gathering the herds to mark the new calves. Kind of remote indeed, there's no road, only a trail they use on ATVs. It's something like 15 km to the nearest road and about 50 km to the closest village, which isn't too bad for how it is in the area. I came from the other side, which is a bit or a lot further depending on which direction you come from and some of it didn't have a trail at all.
The van is on a different part of the route I took, along an old maintenance road called Kalkkoaivintie that was built for WW2 and hasn't really been maintained, but is still drivable on a 4x4.

Nice, that's great to hear. Hope you had a good trip, the archipelago is rather special too.

It really varies with the mosquitos, but generally there's plenty of them this summer. Had lots of them anywhere near water and swamps and below treeline, it was good to have a head net for spots like that. But at least on a good year (or a bad one for the birds that eat mosquitos) you can do a long trip in the open highlands with only a few mosquitos. And there's a brief moment when they are generally gone at the end of the summer, before it gets cold again.

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Continuing with the theme.

Kinekt has a parallelogram suspension stem too, https://www.cyclingabout.com/vibration-testing-kinekt-suspension-stem-review/
Haven't tried it.

For sure, that would make a lot more sense and might even be pleasant at times.

How could he even fit food for three and half months in that?

I suppose it would be possible to put some removable wheels on a rowing boat like this too and maybe pack a Brompton in it:

Jari Saario used that to cross the Atlantic ocean twice last year.

Jonas Deichmann did a round the world triathlon a few years ago, though he did fly over the oceans too. But he did swim some of the distance, pretty cool.

The rules for the guinness record say the distance has to be at least 18 000 miles, and that route seems to be 18 199 miles, so they can't make it much shorter than that.

I've got an old Citizen too, a Promaster I've had since the late 90's. At some point it began to eat batteries quickly and then I stopped using it for a few years. I tried to have the battery changed again recently and it didn't move at all. Lubricants had dried up, they said. I had it serviced, which cost about the same as a new similar watch, but I like this one and now it works again. Seems to be accurate too, it's been a few weeks. Apparently people often just change the movement instead of servicing old quartz watches, but they said they did a full service on this and looks like these movements aren't easily available anymore.
I used to spend a lot of time at the sea back then, mostly on a kayak, so it made sense to have a diver. And this is relatively slim for such at 10.8mm thick. Kind of incredible that I've had this for most of my life and it's still great and in daily use.

I've had a 700x50 Maxxis Rambler, didn't feel too sluggish, though according to bicyclerollingresistance.com it is slow. Didn't measure it, but it was bigger than the same size GK SK and after a while it stretched enough to rub the Columbus Futura Cross + fork so I took it off. Might put it back at some point as I have a different fork now. Didn't get punctures, was easy to set up as tubeless.
Continental Race Kings come in 2" too and people seem to like them.

Not really, I thought I wanted to have more of the length on the back and use the hole there is with the L bracket pointing back, but that turned out to be a bit too close to the ground this time, so I just flipped the bracket around.

This flap on a long 700c 60mm Berthoud is 5 cm from the floor. Not using the ready made hole for the daruma bolt though, but an L-bracket positioned very close to where the daruma would be. If you'd put a bracket on it that pointed backwards and used the existing hole for one of those bolts, the end would be even lower.

Honjo makes some big expensive ones for Sim Works https://www.sim.works/collections/fenders-simworks-by-honjo

I think the GB 60mm are actually a bit wider than stated but haven't measured. I have installed a set of those on a bike with 2.1" Mezcals.

Sounds good, thanks. I've made a randonneur bag with stiffeners and pockets on all sides, velcro on the bottom, straps to the bars and a pocket for the tombstone and I've been thinking about making another more minimalistis one so it's interesting to see other solutions.

Nice bike and a nice handlebar bag, apparently made by https://www.instagram.com/cbrennbags/
How is it attached, there doesn't seem to be any straps or a decaleur on the bar and the bag doesn't look like it has any kind of a frame in it, is the thick cotton stiff enough on it's own and how does the elastic cord at the bottom work with the rack? @JacqueLucque that's your bike, right?

I made a habit of doing at least a few pull ups almost every day, when I got a pull up bar at home when covid hit and have mostly continued that since. Sometimes a few sets spread out during the day. That got me from like 5 to a comfortable 8, but not really further. Now recently I've been concentrating on them a bit more, doing several sets in a workout and that does feel like it gives me more now. Though just more volume on the separate sets throughout the day would probably do it too, doing little more often. Now I'm doing like 50+ all together about three times a week. I just bought Versa Gripps, as my sweaty fingers are slipping during the last sets, as the gym doesn't allow chalk.

A slight tilt will keep the cargo from sliding forward when you hit a bump and it was often how the legendary French porteurs had their's set up, in the golden age of carrying newspapers.

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