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Huaraz, Peru to Ushuaia, Patagonia

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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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A bunch of people have asked about how stable the harness is, how the waggle goes when pedalling hard, different dry bags, tyre buzzing, tyre clearance etc. • I put together a video yesterday showing how the bag performs. It covers most of these questions, and shows the bag being used in different situations. I was using a full 8L Alpkit dry bag that weighs 1.7kg. • Drop me a line with any thoughts, questions or comments! You can see a higher quality video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/351838840 • (Thanks to @eileenschwabnz , @asher_h and @mbluett whos Red Rocks ride I slowed down by asking them to film!)

How to install the dropper post harness. • The harness is designed to also work with the elegant @wolf_tooth_comp Valais. • The Wolftooth Valais lets you limit the drop on your dropper, which prevents you accidentally buzzing your rear tyre. • There are different slots in the harness to allow you to place the Wolftooth Valais at different heights, depending on how much clearance you have between seat and tyre.

First run of dropper post harnesses are back from the laser cutter! • Installing them takes one minute. • They’re used with a removable dry bag. Pack your things off the bike, slide the dry bag in and tighten the straps. • Curved plastic keeps your dry bag protected and stable. • 200g total weight when used with an Ortlieb PS10 7L dry bag. Harness weighs 145g. • $85nzd ($55usd) for the harness. • $125nzd ($85usd) for the harness and Ortlieb dry bag. • We’re continuing to test the first production batch now. • Let us know what you think!

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Big Patagonia, little Patagonia: El Chalten to Puerto Natales
Gear review: better than the rest, worthy of note and would avoid
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Clouds of hell-death and other fun: Trevelin to Coyhaique
Bliss and bustle on the national park shuffle: Pucón to Trevelin

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