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posted by [personal profile] damerell at 09:16pm on 19/09/2004
I am now an End to Ender. I'll post a link to the ride report here, but the very brief summary is 2 weeks, B&Bs, tandem, no sag wagon, South to North, various exciting mechanical incidents.

My personal not-favourite moment was getting a front flat just after taking the drum brake off near the bottom of a 13% grade.
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posted by [identity profile] wehmuth.livejournal.com at 02:35pm on 19/09/2004
Congratulations!!!
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posted by [identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com at 02:36pm on 19/09/2004
Cool :-)

Tho' I saw "Ender" and thought of the books...
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posted by [identity profile] sneerpout.livejournal.com at 02:40pm on 19/09/2004
Congratulations to you both! We should go for pints, and soon.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:40pm on 28/09/2004
Well, you know where the sleazy bar is... I am in London at other times, though.
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posted by [identity profile] igotaplan.livejournal.com at 02:41pm on 19/09/2004
Well done you :) And do tell your tales of mechanical woe...
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posted by [identity profile] skorpionuk.livejournal.com at 03:01pm on 19/09/2004
Congrats!

I am indeed thinking about coming along next time. Need a bike again first.
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posted by [personal profile] lnr at 03:02pm on 19/09/2004
We could steal the tandem off him and do it together? I doubt we'd beat their time though.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:22pm on 19/09/2004
It wouldn't fit you two at all.
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posted by [personal profile] lnr at 03:24pm on 19/09/2004
Too big?
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:28pm on 19/09/2004
It might fit you, actually, but your proposed stoker is, I fear, simply too short to fit on the bike. It's in the older level top tube style (tandems acquired sloping top tubes long before singles) which worked fine for a team with a slightly taller stoker but doesn't work where you do have a team of considerably different heights.
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posted by [personal profile] ironangel at 03:18pm on 19/09/2004
congrats! I am in awe of your cycling prowess.
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posted by [identity profile] nassus.livejournal.com at 04:17pm on 19/09/2004
Impressive - sounds like a lot of fun. Hope you got photos too.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 28/09/2004
We have about 100 - I have to take the disposicams to get them developed.
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posted by [personal profile] reddragdiva at 04:46pm on 19/09/2004
You are hereby definitely insane. Well done.

(I've a friend who circumnavigated Australia by recumbent tricycle ... your next quest?)
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:31pm on 28/09/2004
I would like a recumbent trike, actually, but we'd need a better place to keep it in.

Circumnavigating Australia, though... a couple of people die on the organised ride each time. _That_ is in another league to the E2E or even the Paris-Brest-Paris.
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posted by [personal profile] diffrentcolours at 04:09am on 20/09/2004
Well done, that man. I feel terribly unhealthy just reading that ;)
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