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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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Wellington keeping things wild as we rolled through on our tour of NZ. It’s amazing how much the weather changes this ride around the coast – pleasant seaside pedalling to raging river crossings and horizontal rain. Both great (if you’re a lover of type 1 and 2 fun).

Riding the Bridge to Nowhere trail in ‘The valley of abandoned dreams’. Soldiers were given this land to settle from the government on their return from WW1, but it proved to be so remote and untameable that eventually every one of them abandoned. The bridge was part of developments to link up a route through here, but it was never finished. The track just ends, dropping you to the banks of the Whanganui River for a 33km river journey out to a road. I’m not usually a fan of noisy transport, but the jet boat ride was pretty fun! I’d love to do it by canoe or packraft next time though, it’s definitely scenery best suited to slower travel 🛶🍃

Making an early getaway from a sneaky camp.

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But how’s that waggle? • @amijmitch @wizard.works

Hello, I’m working on a lightweight dropper post harness with a removable dry bag. • Drop me a comment below if you’re curious and want to know more. • It weighs 190g (including harness and dry bag). The harness is made of black 1.2mm polypropylene (a kinda flexible plastic). • I recommend an Ortlieb 7L PS10 dry bag. They’re light and surprisingly tough. Different drybags can of course also be used. • I’ve been testing it with a light sleeping bag, sleeping mat and spare socks and underwear. That’s about 1.3kg. The harness is happy with a couple of kilograms of gear. • There’s no webbing under the rack to wear on your tyre if you have some accidental buzzing. All the parts are easily replaceable. If truly, horribly disastrous things happen to the harness it can be recycled and does not need to end up in a land fill. (Not that I would ever want a harness to die, I just don’t want to add to landfills!) • I made this because for the last few years I’ve been riding with a rack I cobbled together for a regular (non-dropper) seat post. That rack was ridden for about 20,000km and worked very well. It used a similar cut polypropylene approach. Now I’m back in New Zealand, and mountain biking as much as I can, and always using a dropper post. I’ve applied the best things I learnt over the least few years to this new, dropper post harness.

It’s wild being stationary. It’s wild being back in Wellington. It’s wild working. • It’s incredibly good fun bouncing around the trails that lie at our doorstep with our oldest and most magnificent mates.

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