Inspired by Helen over at Take On Africa (who’s clearly a much bigger badass than me since she’s going all the way from UK to South Africa) who posted her gear list for her upcoming Africa bicycle expedition, here’s an initial list of what I plan to take.
Bike Stuff
Bike - Surly Big Dummy long tail [...]
In lieu of putting up my own trip report - which I am notoriously bad at, here’s a link my friend Indy’s blog where he’s posting the whole thing. Special thanks to Indy for helping me with my first trad lead. It was a wicked easy 5.3 with a 5.6 crux but it was still [...]
Wow - that was lightning fast. When ordering through the employee purchase system I’ve come to expect long-ass delays but the YAWP arrived in exactly one week. Fabulous. Not so fabulous was the end of my brilliant plan to build the bike myself. The shop manager nixed it. Damn. I was really looking forward to [...]
Back on Tuesday. Scored some cheap tickets on Southwest and conned some friends into going. The weather looks like it will cooperate. Pics to come. Cheers!
photo by august.wasilowski