A dirty little bike touring blog. Mostly about bikepacking and rigid single speeds. By Montana Miller
Last post on the Divide for a while, then I'll stop smacking on this dead horse meat. These are things I screwed up, that cost me time in the race. Knees The first day, it was snaining, cold, and I was wearing shell pants without any insulation. I was about ten minutes late for the … Continue reading Tour Divide: 5, Mistakes
Continued from yesterday. Part 1 Cost I saved about two grand for the race including travel costs, and it wasn’t enough. But after graduating, moving to Colorado, and barely making rent all winter, it was the best I could scrape together. Just one area where my friends and family deserve a huge amount of credit. … Continue reading Tour Divide: Part 2, Cost and Food
For a typical Tour Divide year, I might have been packed a little heavy. But for the weather this year, I was pretty dead on. I used everything I had, and never wanted anything extra (except for a stove and some coffee in the morning, but there was no time for that, becasue bike race). … Continue reading Tour Divide Gear Stuff
Also on the Dirt Rag I haven't been able to sleep- every night I wake up, thinking that I still have more miles to ride to the border. "No, Colleen already picked you up, it's over," I tell myself. Then the sun comes up and my legs are rubbery. Tour Divide was monstrously hard. I … Continue reading Tour Divide
"Adventure is a mark of incompetence." - Vilhjalmur Stefansson After being breifly detained and seached for the devil's lettuce at the border (again), Colleen and I made it to Banff last night. Tomorrow morning I'll start the long ride to Mexico.A bunch of my family and friends, as well as Wilderness Voyageurs and Aloha Mountain Cyclery … Continue reading Tour Divide 2014: the start
The stuff. When it's all laid out, it doesn't look like much for a few weeks of living off the bike. But when I'm pushing it up a moutain road, it feels like a ton. All the bags were made by Lane and Monty at Oveja Negra in Leadville. I'm testing them for the Dirt … Continue reading Great Divide Pack List
A little less than two months out from Tour Divide. I'm starting to feel pretty good about the race.Since leaving Pennsylvania, I've been on my bike a lot. An hour commute in the morning, an hour and a half mountain bike ride at lunch, and an hour commute home. And on days off, a long … Continue reading Two Months Out
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