[HN Gopher] Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days ___________________________________________________________________ Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days Author : the_cat_kittles Score : 66 points Date : 2022-11-14 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.peterispedaling.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.peterispedaling.com) | insane_dreamer wrote: | > I had a month where I sent only one email. All month. | | this might be the best line in the article :) | ericmcer wrote: | I think you mean 9833km? South America is not that long unless he | was riding in circles around it or something. | hnthrowaway0315 wrote: | Just curious. For a similar bit shorter travel across Canada from | east to west during summer, is there any recommended commercial | bike? (commercial bike means can buy in Costco/Canadian | Tire/individual bike shops and not too expensive, say under 3000 | CAD) | newsclues wrote: | a touring bike is what you want, lots of brands make them, find | a local shop and try a few to see what you like. | calt wrote: | The Surly Long Haul Trucker is a favorite base bike. | | Getting the bags and racks etc won't be included. A good local | bike shop would be my bet. | wiredfool wrote: | The Surly he was riding isn't a bad choice. They're pretty | stout, and have all the necessary braze ons for racks and | fenders. You're going to need panniers and/or frame bags, | though current style is to put a bit more weight on the front | than he seemed to have. | matsemann wrote: | How would a different kind of bike setup fare? Like tubeless, or | belt-driven etc, any gains doing untraditional things? Of course, | one value in doing it plain is it's easy to fix and get parts | anywhere. | flylikeabanana wrote: | > one value in doing it plain is it's easy to fix and get parts | anywhere | | That's probably the main value. In the article it says he | waited three days for a bike chain - I imagine it would have | been even longer waiting for a belt. Belts also limit you to | single-sprocket rear wheels since they don't work with | derailers - hub gears can be reliable (see the legendary | Rohloff hubs) but they're expensive and add another difficult- | to-source part to the build in case something goes wrong. | | There's even something of a cult myth in touring that steel | frames are superior since they could be theoretically fixed by | anyone with a welder. I'm not sure if I've ever heard of this | in practice, though. | pixelbreaker wrote: | I have a pinion gearboxed mountain bike with belt drive, | 10000km and going strong, same belt. | bwb wrote: | Same here, I am at half that on a touring bike. Belts are | amazing! | | I do carry a spare on tours | danw1979 wrote: | wouldn't a spare belt be quite light to pack anyway ? | wl wrote: | Tubeless is probably the least problematic of the newfangled | bike tech when it comes to bike touring in remote areas. You | get the benefit that most punctures will seal themselves. If | the puncture is too severe for the sealant to work, you can | easily convert to a conventional setup with a tube. | loeg wrote: | This isn't a ton of miles for the period of time; the main | complication is that he's doing it in rural areas, carrying a | bunch of gear, in a foreign country. Given that scenario, bike | tourers frequently opt for the equipment most likely to have | replacement parts available. Which means boring, conventional | stuff. | dheera wrote: | I've done long distance rides in Asia and I'd strongly suggest | using as standard parts as possible, for exactly that reason: | the bike shop in some middle-of-nowhere village will likely | have something you can use. | | When long distance touring you're also usually pulling around a | fair amount of baggage, so don't bother trying to save a few | hundred grams here and there on bike components if it isn't | standard stuff. | rubyn00bie wrote: | The title on HN seems to deviate from the one on the page. I say | that because that's only 24 miles a day, and I've known plenty of | people who bike commute and do _at least_ that. The article | itself, IMHO, is also more interesting than the amount of miles | biked. | mikepurvis wrote: | Riding 24mi (39km) a day for a few weeks is one thing, but | sustaining that for over a year, including making up for days | off due to weather, mechanical trouble, whatever is what makes | this interesting IMO. | soperj wrote: | There was a guy in Canada (Al Howie) who RAN about two and a | half times (105km) that far every day for two and a half | months(72 days, 10 hours). 2 weeks after he finished he set a | world record in a 1300 mile race. | loeg wrote: | Yeah. It's not a lot of miles per day "in civilization." | s1mon wrote: | Agreed. When I first glanced at the title, I was thinking about | the RAAM (Race Across America), where the winners do roughly | ~3000 miles in ~9 days (depending on course and year).[0] The | actual logistics of this trip North/South along the western | side of South America [1] are much different, and glancing at | some of the blog entries and photos, very interesting. There's | also YouTube videos. [2] | | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_America | | [1] https://www.peterispedaling.com/the-ride | | [2] https://www.youtube.com/user/pdbennett8/videos | the_cat_kittles wrote: | this is a really entertaining and descriptive summary of the nuts | and bolts of bike touring through south america written by a | friend of mine. i recommend the whole blog! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-14 23:00 UTC)