Amy and Kyle's Around the world challenge

[fossyant]

Just to show how unpopular some of those dead straight roads are Amys QoM yesterday was on one with only 6 other riders listed including Kyle and al the others were melln.

Brave choice of roads, but needs must.

 

[oxoman]

To ride back to back the amount of miles there doing is challenge in itself, to do it on some of the routes there doing is another level. At the minute its eat ride eat sleep repeat, probably find they've both lost weight given the amount of energy there expending. Certainly not low balling on the challenge either. Hopefully Europe will have cooled down a bit for there return.

 

[YellowV2]

They are still busy plodding on long boring roads/hotels/ etc and keeping on. Bike service next day or so, let's hope it goes OK. New drive chain by now, rings cassette and chain..

I couldn't ride roads like this every day... It's bad enough a 2 mile straight line in my head.

I think with their background and where they have come from mentally this does not pose as many challenges as it might for others?

 

[rualexander]

29 punctures in total so far.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

29 punctures in total so far.

Think the record is 40

 

[geocycle]

29 punctures in total so far.

They seemed to have picked up another two in the latest video. They’ve almost stopped almost mentioning them, Kyle really has some patience. Let’s hope the bikes have survived the latest service better than the last one.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Let’s hope the bikes have survived the latest service better than the last one.

They've been serviced since the seemingly terrible Perth one. It was in Auckland I think. And given that they were visiting two sponsors in Kansas City, you'd hope that one or other of them would have arranged, or at least recommended, a quality, reliable service place!

 

[bikingdad90]

29 punctures in total so far.

It doesn’t really sell panaracer as a brand. They are on day 90 so that works out as circa 1 every 3 days.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Two bikes and c.20,000km, so 30 punctures in 40,000 bike-kilometres is about one every 1,300km, per bike. Is that a lot? (I don't use tubes so i really don't know.) On the other hand Amy did about 6,000km on her Tour de France ride last year and had zero punctures, also on Panaracers. Perhaps the difference is riding on such major roads with all sorts of detritus from lorries (bits of metal from tyres, etc.)

 

[T4tomo]

I've said this before, the Panaracers with plus / + protection are excellent. The standard and Tubeless ready ones are made of cheese.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

one every 1,300km, per bike. Is that a lot? (I don't use tubes

Yes, Nothing in my tubed front tyre in 5,000km. Mind I do not ride the kind of roads they are on or in the gutter. Of course I am now cursed for my next outing.

 

[geocycle]

Two bikes and c.20,000km, so 30 punctures in 40,000 bike-kilometres is about one every 1,300km, per bike. Is that a lot? (I don't use tubes so i really don't know.) On the other hand Amy did about 6,000km on her Tour de France ride last year and had zero punctures, also on Panaracers. Perhaps the difference is riding on such major roads with all sorts of detritus from lorries (bits of metal from tyres, etc.)

Based on my experience of 0-6 per year over 4000 miles I’d have expected about 9 per bike by this stage. There’s a big error margin but 29 is bout 30% more than I’d have expected. No doubt some function of roads, tyres, weight on bikes and time pressure. The TdF route would have had excellent tarmac, she wasn’t carrying weight and maybe they changed tyres more often.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Based on my experience of 0-6 per year over 4000 miles I’d have expected about 9 per bike by this stage. There’s a big error margin but 29 is bout 30% more than I’d have expected. No doubt some function of roads, tyres, weight on bikes and time pressure. The TdF route would have had excellent tarmac, she wasn’t carrying weight and maybe they changed tyres more often.

So on that basis the Amy/Kyle numbers really aren't too far out. And Ming's experience on different road types, is perhaps just that, very different conditions. That said, I'm not tempted to switch to tubes!

 

[fossyant]

Add in with any rear puncture it's luggage off to make the bike easier to get the wheel out, and looks like the tailfin racks use axel mounts having seen a photo from today (nothing wrong with them though, i have a cheap axel mount rack for my CX bike).

It's just time lost 20-30 minutes with a rear change. Plenty of tubes but patch at hotel. On one day on the KAW one of us picked up four punctures from flints in one day. Even with the lightning fast tube changes (we dipped into others spares) it probably added another hour and a half to that day and we were making good speed. Fortunately there was one other puncture in the four day trip. We had a mass patch at the campsite in the evening.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I first used tubeless in 2006. I remember on the Trans-Cambrian Way I had a huge thorn and rest of twig embedded in my tyre. I just pulled it out and tyre sealed. Mate on tubes then promptly rode over it when we set off, and instant deflation. 😂