Curious to hear about your hardest day bike packing! Whether it was the conditions, mechanicals, or just the amount of riding, what made it hard and what got you through it?
Mine was a mix of physical/mental exhaustion from constant climbing and stressing about my chain after it snapped earlier in the day. Luckily I had a good buddy with me to commiserate with!
by SDguy_1991
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Let me file this under “not going that way”.
wow, nice job.
damn! i love me some
julian beer co bbq. hoping to do a route similar to this
I was riding through Baja several years ago, 65mph headwind gusts 🤣🤣🤣
Mine is also through that neck of the woods. Sweetwater to Agua Caliente via the Stagecoach 400 route. Ended up being 79 miles and 8460ft of elevation. Mostly dirt. Ridiculous.
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Really fun hauling 15L of water up a sandy gravel ‘road’.
We followed version 2 of the Anza Hapaha loop, and didn’t expect to have to do some kind of bouldering with bicycles and gear.Â
Good thing there was the two of us, so that we could pass the bicycles up and down unrideable rocks, but it felt sketchy and mildly frustrating to have to unpack and repack the bikes multiple times.Â
Mine was 36.5 miles.
It was a loop trail. I was advised to ride the trail clockwise and I chose to ride it counterclockwise.
This left me with the final 10 miles almost entirely uphill. It was brutal.
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Fully loaded.