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Peru: The stats

On September 5, 2016July 6, 2017 By eileenIn Biking, Peru, Peru to PatagoniaLeave a comment

98 days in Peru (on our 100 day visa) by the numbers, for people who like that kind of thing.

Bikes, bags, bits, bobs. Our South American gear list. (Version 1)

On May 20, 2016July 5, 2017 By AndyIn Biking, Gear, Hiking, Peru to Patagonia1 Comment

Get ready for an intensely nerdy list. Hopefully it might be useful for others thinking about walking / cycling for long distances.

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Seeking out those little dotted lines on the maps 🗺🧐

Sun beams and snow flurries

How good are bikes! How good is this place! Good one NZ 🚵🏻‍♀️🤤👏 (Way back in April, during some other life)

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I’ve got a new job. My first team meeting involved trying to cross the Pisa range on mountain bikes. · It also involved an insanely incredible meal in Meg hut carried and cooked by @davekelbe. · Turns out we were a bit early in the season and above 1800m it was still, umm, quite snowy. · If only were were a company that worked with satellite imagery and could have checked how snowy it was before going there 🤔 · It was still very much super fun good times though. A++++ would trade again.

We’ve been back in Wellington a touch over four months. Those months went whhhoooossshhhh. I think time moves faster when you’re stationary. · We’ve acquired bikes with lots of squishy bits and are very regular members in the Wellington chapter of the Shred The Gnar™ gang. We’ve also ended up in jobs. Working 40 hours a week is quite a transition from riding 40 hours a week. · Coco and Chichi, our trusty touring steeds, were lonely. They had bald tyres, goopy sealant, and broken chain ring teeth. After some much needed love, hydraulic disc brakes and a dropper post, they’re constantly badgering us for adventure again. · This trip was a pretty low key trundle through the Akatarawa forest just north of Wellington. It’s quite delightful riding with a dropper post and so little gear in warm-ish weather. It’s less delightful realising how un-fit and weak I have become. I suppose when you change from riding all day every day to sitting at a desk that’ll happen. · We both used @wayward_riders dropper post harnesses, which are shown in the photos there. Mine was carrying the fabric for a 3 person tent, and Eileen’s had a bit of food, and a bunch of night time clothes and bits and bobs.

Hello, I’ve got a few Louise dropper post harnesses for sale up on the new website: waywardriders.com link in my bio. • I’ve also got an Instagram account: @wayward_riders where I will post about the Louise harness. • The harness is called Louise after the most incredible and inspirational Louise Sutherland.

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