Overcoming adversity with humour & ingenuity, a rider’s story. Amiable adventurer, James Benson King @bikingvikingrides recounts his tale of adversity whilst crossing cold, wet Germany.
A moment of bikepacking ultracycling genius – he nailed it!
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I couldn’t send
the new GPX file to my Garmin, which is fine. I can navigate
off my phone. That’s all
good. A downpour
happens. I realise that
I now can’t navigate with
my phone. I had to navigate
off memory. So I was just on
bike paths. I’d looked at the
map that I’d drawn yesterday. And I was like trying
to pick up place names. When I got lost,
I would have to dry the
phone, but my buff is normally
what I dry with. My buff was soaking
wet. So I’m looking
around on my bike for things
to dry it with and there’s
nothing. So finally I look
at my food bin and every time
I want to have to dry
my phone, I tear off a bit
of baguette and I have to dry
my phone with the baguette so that I can look
at my phone. That was my ultra
moment. That was like,
ah, you’ve nailed
it.