Today I resurrected my old Dakota, tried to add a kmz file to Custom Maps, and failed. I thought I'd post on here for any help, and then found my post from 2013 about having the same unresolved problem then. Does anyone know how to get a kmz file onto a garmin that doesn't involve me launching it at...

I did it a few years ago. The Strava title was:
Death by a thousand gates.

Open a gate through cattle-churned ground. While doing so, looking at the farmers field you'll have to plow though and another gate at the other end of the field. And repeat

Not mine. There's a Super C Audax in eBay for £40. Most that go cheaper than than truly are mouldy

I bought this last summer but afraid i've not actually tried it yet. LanShan 1 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000303876219.html But it cost £66, partly due to a site-wide sale that Ali regularly have. It has a few ties and lines that are chunky and could be replaced with lighter lines. And I recal...

nb, I have entered the Highland Fling 1000

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Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:58 am

Apidura backcountry food pouch, small, £20.

I'll take this, please. PM your PP address. But it'll be tomorrow when I pay, not this evening, when I'm less drunked

Ray, I think it is worth getting the smart one from Halfords. Ive got that too. Dumb ones may as well be a £50 exercise bike / clothes horse. 'Grand Road Tours' is free to use - I've not set that up yet though so cant comment. If you get something from Halfords, I'll meet you with my British Cycling...

I read one report of that, I think on a Gravel FB Group, cannae mind the name.

The strap wasn't continuous, looped through the helmet inside, but a left strap and a right strap, which detached

Ah, nice one, thanks Jimmy

is anyone taking a vehicle from Edinburgh area for a lift for the petrol money?

Have you signed up for LEJOG yet? I am have a hard think about it and keep going back to its thread on YACF. Start and finish logistics are putting me off though

Phew. Aiming for a randonneur 5000 in your first full year doing these does seem ambitious. Doing the sums, I think that doing 300, 400, 600, 1000 and ECEing all of the remaining eight 200s to instead be 300 will get the standard Randonneur and RRTY .... but you'd STILL be 100 shy of 5000. Sounds to...

I can't see how the 'cockpit' [STW patter] could be set up in order to accommodate all the different hand positions. The same as how one's position will be off if one simply switches drop bars for flat bars (or vice versa) without also changing stem length/rise, stack height, saddle height and fore/...

11-40T cassette immediately after returning from Torino-Nice Rally on a 11-32T one

there's been a thread on YACF for a while with some extra info/discussion https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=112619.0

Considering it or one of the two other 1000+ km audax currently on the calendar for next year

I think I know where that is (I stay in Edinburgh and have done that part of the route many times). Ive never seen a sign. I was last there in June, I think. Just crack on and ignore signs or locked gates, it isn't private property and one is allowed responsible access

Embra = "Edinburgh".

Seems like a reasonable place to leave the car. There *MIGHT* be resident's only parking there. I dunno, you might be able to see the street sign of google streetview

1x rear mechs sensitive to chainline?

I am struggling to understand which bits are new and which are the existing parts: you added a front mech and a new left hand shifter but it is the rear shifting that you are now not happy with (yes?) Rear shifting with SRAM can be affected by the cable routing. What is the direction of the cable co...

Before I'd even seen the above comments, I'd intended to write: "death by a thousand gates was my Strava title at the time". Not a favourite route - aside from the gates, it mostly seems to involve riding through a farmer's field to the next gate. Have a gpx to follow as the markers aren't always ob...

Ive Rival hydro on my road bike, which are significantly better (both power and modulation/feel) than the three different cable discs I also have (Shim CX on CX bike; BB7 on gravel bike; low end Shim on commuter bike)

second hand Bunker Research book for prior to the TNRally

Oh, another tip for long distance cycling generally, go as easily as possible up hills so as to not go into the red. But also go hard descending, working about as hard as you do when cimbing, in order to maximise the distance/effort balance overall

I did a solo 400 yesterday, to complete the 200, 300, 400, 600 Super Randonneur for the season. - Go at a steady pace and fuel regularly, and you'll be able to carry on pretty much indefinitely. - Don't dally at stops but always stop to eat if you feel the bonk coming on else it'll be too late and y...

Basic food will typically be provided by the organiser for the finish (unless the audax is an 'x rated' one). But controls are typically at/near normal cafes where one buys one's own food