# D2R2 2k-er-18
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205 "2016-07-15T13:45:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@curiousincident](https://tarck.cc/u/curiousincident)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/1 "2016-07-15T13:45:27Z")
who is going? i just signed up for the 115k and will be up there with a fair number of teammates and am hoping to see a fair number of y’all up there!
was tempted by the mystery route, but i ended up not going for it. there’s still nearly 8k’ in the 115k and it’ll be more social, which is one of the things i like about this ride.
will probably camp there friday and saturday.
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/2 "2016-07-15T13:51:53Z")
I think I’m going for the mystery but haven’t signed up yet. I’ll be there unless work doesn’t allow me to be there, but I think it is early enough in August. Do nothing less than the 170! It is still mighty social and an easy ride because there are great rest stops, a lunch stop, and plenty of beer after. I made the mistake of carrying some of my own food to start and ended up leaving it at a stop because there was SO. MUCH. FOOD.
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### Author:  [@jdsmooth](https://tarck.cc/u/jdsmooth)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/3 "2016-07-15T14:52:01Z")
I’m in for 180km, camping 2x. Wear a TARCK caps!
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### Author:  [@hiljentaa](https://tarck.cc/u/hiljentaa)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/4 "2016-07-15T14:55:08Z")
Haven’t signed up yet, but eyeing the mystery route as well.
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### Author:  [@Bahamontes](https://tarck.cc/u/Bahamontes)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/5 "2016-07-15T17:05:40Z")
I’m doing the 100, because it’s all my cousin thinks he can handle, but still I’m SOST OKED.
Any independent burger/ice cream spots nearby?
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### Author:  [@curiousincident](https://tarck.cc/u/curiousincident)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/6 "2016-07-16T13:53:17Z")
^ not sure about that, but they pretty well handle all 3 meals for the day and they do a good job of it
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/7 "2016-07-16T14:28:00Z")
Ain’t gonna be spots on the route since it is all dirt roads up in the middle of nowhere, but I bet Amherst has something. In fact I kind of remember getting ice cream in Amherst the day before last year.
edit: [http://www.amhersticecream.com/](http://www.amhersticecream.com/)
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### Author:  [@Bahamontes](https://tarck.cc/u/Bahamontes)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/8 "2016-07-17T16:43:38Z")
Bingo. That’s what I’m looking for.
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### Author:  [@turpencat](https://tarck.cc/u/turpencat)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/9 "2016-07-19T22:50:00Z")
what is the dates?
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/10 "2016-07-19T23:00:50Z")
August 20, Saturday.
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### Author:  [@ergott](https://tarck.cc/u/ergott)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/11 "2016-07-19T23:18:58Z")
I’m in and bringing a couple of local riders for their first. We haven’t confirmed which route, but debating the 160 and the 115.
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### Author:  [@curiousincident](https://tarck.cc/u/curiousincident)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/12 "2016-07-20T00:35:00Z")
ugh, feeling conflicted about route choice. on one hand i know the 115 is still a hefty day’s ride and that i’ve got teammates doing it i’d like to ride with.
otherwise i feel like i’m up for one of the longer routes and i actually don’t have to drive home to baltimore immediately after doing the ride this year.
anybody know if the promoters are chill about requests to swap? probably worth a shot.
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### Author:  [@quilbert420](https://tarck.cc/u/quilbert420)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/13 "2016-07-20T01:27:00Z")
> [@Bahamontes](#):
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> Any independent burger/ice cream spots nearby?
not ice creams or burgers but go to the people’s pint tap and die in greenfield & thank me later.
tap and die is/was the name of a malt liquor they brew/brewed.
edit cos dumb.
edit2 looks like they have foods also.
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/14 "2016-07-20T01:31:34Z")
[quote=curiousincident]ugh, feeling conflicted about route choice. on one hand i know the 115 is still a hefty day’s ride and that i’ve got teammates doing it i’d like to ride with.
otherwise i feel like i’m up for one of the longer routes and i actually don’t have to drive home to baltimore immediately after doing the ride this year.
anybody know if the promoters are chill about requests to swap? probably worth a shot.[/quote]
I don’t think they would notice or care very much. They basically ask you to sign up for a specific route so they have a head count of how much food to provide.
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### Author:  [@Bahamontes](https://tarck.cc/u/Bahamontes)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/15 "2016-07-20T02:33:34Z")
Thanks, Biek!
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### Author:  [@curiousincident](https://tarck.cc/u/curiousincident)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/16 "2016-07-20T03:24:13Z")
[quote=lukasz][quote=curiousincident]ugh, feeling conflicted about route choice. on one hand i know the 115 is still a hefty day’s ride and that i’ve got teammates doing it i’d like to ride with.
otherwise i feel like i’m up for one of the longer routes and i actually don’t have to drive home to baltimore immediately after doing the ride this year.[/quote]
I don’t think they would notice or care very much. They basically ask you to sign up for a specific route so they have a head count of how much food to provide.[/quote]
good point! now i wonder if they’ll send out course info for the mystery ride beforehand so you can do gps navigation or not…
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### Author:  [@hiljentaa](https://tarck.cc/u/hiljentaa)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/17 "2016-07-20T13:45:57Z")
I changed my route last minute in '13, and they didn’t care. Though, my time tracking info showed up on the route I initially signed up for and didn’t ride.
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### Author:  [@rancid\_burple](https://tarck.cc/u/rancid_burple)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/18 "2016-07-20T20:53:37Z")
I can probably make this and camp 2 nights. Only problem is I don’t have any fat tire bikes right now. Could do 27 pave tubs or 29 (actual) challenge clinchers on my road bike with a 39/28 low gear… will that be enough?
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### Author:  [@frank\_doktor](https://tarck.cc/u/frank_doktor)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/19 "2016-07-20T21:18:59Z")
Yeah, you will survive. Just a few sections that it may be a little in the underbiking realm, but you don’t have to bomb the jeep road if you don’t want to.
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### Author:  [@hiljentaa](https://tarck.cc/u/hiljentaa)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/d2r2-2k-er-18/21205/20 "2016-07-21T00:17:46Z")
> [@rauce](#):
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> I can probably make this and camp 2 nights. Only problem is I don’t have any fat tire bikes right now. Could do 27 pave tubs or 29 (actual) challenge clinchers on my road bike with a 39/28 low gear… will that be enough?
Doable, but won’t be as fun. I rode 28s and 34/27 low. Couldn’t blast the downhills as hard and had to walk a couple of the ridiculously steep sections.
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