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BIKE ACROSS AMERICA
Road side assistance
When you buy the best hand-tire pump at the bike store, the last thing you think is that you're going to meltdown in a gas station parking lot and smash it on the ground. And when Heath is fixing yet another flat, you know he's seconds from stomping his spokes in but doesn't because we're…
Utah! Get me two!
I love eating. According to Heath, I'm his fattest friend (This coming from the guy who goes to bed eating m&m's and wakes up eating m&m's). So the best part so far is we get to eat whatever the F we want. If you were concerned with your performance on the bike, you might go…
Echo bay……GFY
If you ever get a wild hair and think you want to go for a swim at Echo Bay in Lake Mead.....don't. It looks like a swamp and a construction site at the same time. So after riding 5 miles downhill with the hopes of cool lake water, we settled for cold fanta and treated…
Things aren’t working out like they’re supposed to, but at least they’re working out.
If you want to look like a big shot when you go to Vegas, roll up on a bicycle with camping gear. They come flooding out with free shit. That's probably why we were comped a bottle of white zinfandel with our buffet dinner. Two dudes, one bottle of undrinkable pink wine. Laundry in the…
“H.I., I’m barren”
In Death Valley it started to become glaringly apparent that water was going to dictate the route. Originally we had planned to go north out of the valley and up into central Nevada, until we realized there would be a stretch for over 150 miles with no water. Bummer. One the other hand, Heath had…
Our Current location
If you want to get really specific, we're at Starbucks.
The Good News: Late season heat wave in Death Valley
So we last left you in Trona... The early morning shock of how hard it is to pedal a bike, with roughly 5 Liters of water added to all your gear, is straight up depressing. I really didn't know if I was going to be able to climb 5000 ft with this burden dragging behind…
Continue reading ➞ The Good News: Late season heat wave in Death Valley
More day 2 misery pics & the stunning city of Trona
No one is pretending here. We have no idea what we're doing. It only took three days for us each to have a situation with our clip-in pedals (not counting the day I fell over in Heath's apartment learning how they worked). I was going uphill and was so tired I nicked the curb and…
Continue reading ➞ More day 2 misery pics & the stunning city of Trona
It’s all about water and butt pain
We've narrowed down the key ingredients to cycling in the the desert. You have to bring twice as much water as you think, and your butt is going to develope some "issues". There has been some googling of saddle sores already. Aside from that we're doing pretty good I think. We put in 93 miles…
WE'RE REALLY DOING IT 