Good luck Hopefully you have great weather. Curious as to the brand of fenders you have on there. If it's wet also curious if the front fender works without a mud flap at the bottom. Hope you give a ride report here along with some pics. Oh what food bag is that strapped to your handlebars? What do you store/stash in there?
Thanks Zman! As for the weather,I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. That is why I'm running fenders. These are the SKS brand and i think they are the speedrocker... The feed bag is from Rockgeist with the steem mount. I really like this bag a lot! Easy one handed open and it doesn't rub my frame at all. That one will carry my food that is factory packed and it should still have room for some of my home cooked/made. The top tube bag is a Timbuktu brand which is zipper sealed. This one will hold my phone and external batteries chain tool tire plugs and id/stuff I have a speedsleev seat bag , I also like this one a lot! Its nice and tight under the seat without straping to the seat post. It still has enough room for a spare tire, leavers,two Co2, extra chain link and a multi tool.
I guess I took one for the team !the weather turned out as perfect as it could get and I really didn't needed to buy fenders. However the front fenders is a two piece deal so I kept the rear portion on to keep from getting the chain and myself to dirty...that turned out to be a brilliant idea! By the numbers 241.19 miles 7904 feet of elevation 19:06:09 elapsed time 15:55:47 moving time 7123 calories burned 15.1 mph average speed 38 mph top speed I would say it was 99.5% gravel!
Zx10freak wrote:I guess I took one for the team !the weather turned out as perfect as it could get and I really didn't needed to buy fenders. However the front fenders is a two piece deal so I kept the rear portion on to keep from getting the chain and myself to dirty...that turned out to be a brilliant idea! By the numbers 241.19 miles 7904 feet of elevation 19:06:09 elapsed time 15:55:47 moving time 7123 calories burned 15.1 mph average speed 38 mph top speed I would say it was 99.5% gravel!
One hell of a crazy good day
I signed up this year. What's the longest training ride you did before hand? Last fall I did 80 miles with 4000ft elevation gain. This weekend I should top that by quite a bit
I had only ridden 100 miles (in one shot) twice before this race. once the year before on the Lutsen 99er and once on a training ride a month prior to the race (with relatively no climbing ) I put in some longer days, but most were like 20+ to 50 miles rides. I just did that 2 or 3 times a week.
