They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it… or to put it another way, you think I would have learned from the last time I was silly enough to try and ride my bike packing rig for 5 long laps of Stromlo. Last year as part of my preparations for Tour […]
Kowalski, A Singlespeeder’s Tale…
You know, after Tour Divide its kind of hard to get worked up about 90km. After all, when you’ve ridden more than 230km a day for 20+ days… well, 90km just doesn’t seem that hard. At least that’s what I was telling myself as I was getting organised to drive down to Canberra for the […]
Racing the Tour Divide: You must climb.
Arran Pearson has just returned from the Tour Divide. This is the third part of his story. You should read part one and part two to catch up. Although there is a lot of climbing in the first 1/2 of the route, it’s in Colorado where you hit serious altitude with several passes over 10,000 […]