that’s amazing. nicely done.
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I love that fucking Rock Lobster so much
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Did a 4 day tour of Victoria a few weekends ago. Not too many miles, but just enough to see lots of different landscapes, talk to way too many Canadians and have a good time.
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30492321
We started in Seattle and by the end took 7 different ferries. Left our car in Port Angeles, took the Black Ball ferry to Victoria and rode from there. I’m really excited to get up there and do more riding, camp in some more legit spots, and explore more of the Trans-canada trail. Would definitely recommend this part of the world.
The Kinsol Trestle is a really cool old railroad bridge. Canada needs to figure out its pot situation. This bar was 100mg and it said to eat half as the serving size. Gorgeous farm roads and even better touring buddies.
Street end park we camped on when we got too stoned on Salt Spring Island and forgot to find a campground. Probably not legal, but nobody said anything because they’re all too damn nice. Cute roads in Canada.
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That looks like a dream!
Nice! I rode out of Victoria on the Galloping Goose to west side and back along the coast a bunch of years ago. Definitely need to get back to explore the east side and nearby islands.
I just did a much less adventurous ride. But it did answer the question “Can you use a 700x25-32 tube in a 29x2.1 tire?”.
I forgot to turn on my watch for parts of it so the stravas are all over the place.
Day 1: Took the ferry to Bremerton and rode to Scenic Beach State Park. Some of the worst roads I’ve ever forced myself to ride down. Almost straight off the ferry the roads were fast and had no shoulder. If I knew Bremerton better, I might have been able to find a better way. Once I got out of town, the speed limit went up to 50 and the roads were all 2 lane with a sloping gravel shoulder that started right at the yellow line. On long hills I just rode in the gravel. The park was nice. Hiker/biker sites were fairly secluded except for being right next to the dumpsters. I didn’t have exact change ($12) for the site, so I put a $20 in the envelope. When I got back to my site after walking around, there was $8 on my picnic table. Never had that happen before and thanks to the awesome ranger who did it. I slept poorly and had nightmares. And some kids were getting hammered and being loud well past quiet hours.
Day 2: I really didn’t want to ride back to Bremerton, pretty much the only ways back were fast roads. Instead I decided to go north to Kitsap Memorial State Park. The plan was to ride to Poulsbo and get food and beers for the campsite, then ride the 6 miles out and set up in the afternoon. I stopped at an IHOP about halfway there for an uninspiring breakfast. Just as i got to Poulsbo, I got a flat. I knew I didn’t have a proper tube, but I didn’t realize that the one I’d grabbed was for a max 32 tire. Put it in and it worked well. I changed my plan to he’d towards the closest thing to a bike shop I could find, a Big 5 Sports. They didn’t have any 29" tubes, but had some 700x42s, so i picked up two. I was only about 5 miles from the campsite so I just rolled on. The front held up fine, but the rear now had a slow leak. Instead of changing it, I stopped every 10 min or so and put some more air in. I was just ready to be someplace where I could relax for a while. Eventually made it to the park and found an interesting new route. Changed the rear tube and decided to head back to town for pizza and beers. 11 miles later, I’m back. Ate the cold pizza, drank the warm beers and sat by the water as the sun went down.
Day 3: Slept pretty well and woke up to light rain. I packed up during a dry spell and headed out. In Poulsbo I stopped for a pretty solid breakfast and then set off for the ferry in Bainbridge. It ended up raining most of the way there but it was warm enough that my rain jacket was overkill, especially on the climbs. I got tired of highway riding so I explored some other roads that ended up being a lot hillier. Perfectly timed the ferry (on accident) and ate ice cream for the cruise back to Seattle.
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Sounds right to me 
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I couldn’t think of a better thread to ask this in - but wtf is all the hullabaloo about the Tour Divide race thing, Lael WIlcox, some dude Salsa used to sponsor, a documentary, and salty internet comments?
I think I’ve grasped the outline of the drama, some people were making a docu of Lael and other riders on the Tour Divide, some other people got really salty about it and spent a lot of time being mad on the internet and then some guy lost Slasa’s sponsorship over said online saltiness? What I wanna know, or get people’s opinions on, is whether or not the saltiness was justified and if anyone who posts here has some insight to the innerworkings of the drama.
You want the celebrity poopbarn thread. Some discussion and links start here-ish:
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Rode from downtown Denver to the Colorado trail. Sun, rain, river floating, good times. No burro tho 
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looks like you’ve lost some tread on your back tire there buddy, you keep skidding!
The tires had no tread to begin with… plus theyre called the grifter which I’ve interpreted to mean drifter as in Tokyo drifter.
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Quinones, of Portland, hadn’t seen anyone all day as he biked across the so-called Oregon Outback, a sparsely populated expanse of scrub brush and cattle lands in south-central Oregon. At first, he thought the strange lump was a dead cow.
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Saying “That’s a funny looking cow” every time I see a person in a remote place is entering my lexicon.
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Finally, the oregon buttcrack does some good1
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Beat me to it. Came here to post that.
Either a googling fail or the reporter misheard, but the rider was on a different route, not the outback route: (even more middle of nowhere…)
https://bikeportland.org/2019/07/26/portland-bikepacker-finds-and-saves-man-stranded-in-remote-oregon-outback-302921
I used to work with Tomas and he is an incredibly cool and nice guy, if that isn’t already clear. Glad to see that he saved a life.
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how good was he at immediately knowing whether something is a cow or not?
Seems like the kind of thing that might come in handy