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[steve j]

Searching for someone with a mapping route capability

 

[freiston]

Searching for someone with a mapping route capability

If I'm understanding your posts (here and in other threads), I'm guessing that you want the Northern Tier/trans-am route mapped (though I have never heard of it before). If that's correct, then the gpx/kml file can be downloaded from bikemap.net but you need a premium account (which I don't have). There's also the route on a zoomable map. If I'm wrong, then back to square one - I don't know what you are after.

https://www.bikemap.net/en/r/3828731/#2.69/45.16/-95.44

 

[All uphill]

I'm a couple of weeks away from my third cycle tour in the Netherlands.

My first tiny tip is to take and wear some old well-used clothes and shoes. Then towards the end of the tour lots of stuff can go in the bin, reducing weight and bulk as the legs become tired.

 

[Jameshow]

Wow! it doesn't feel that long ago.


In my search for high energy low bulk foodstuffs, I soon became aware that carbs (including sugars) and proteins both have 4 calories per gramme and fat has 9 calories per gramme - and no matter what I do, I can't increase that. As ever, water and fibre add to the bulk. It seems that those three-course meal pills I heard so much about as a kid belong at the implausible end of science fiction .

Begian buns one for now and one for later + meal deal are my favourite touring lunch. Coop preferred but other supermarkets are available.

 

[Cathryn]

My family LOVE a meal deal!