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On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 4:49:02 PM UTC-5, Ryan Fleming wrote: > > Oooh new bike...this sounds exciting!...but I'm sure you want a thorough > shakedown before you take it on a long adventure...any pictures of this > bike? > > On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 4:24:54 PM UTC-5, Mark Reimer wrote: >> >> Thanks Tony, great photos. >> >> Trip planning is making slow progress. It looks like I won't have time to >> ride the Icefields Parkway from Jasper to Banff before starting the divide >> after all. The distance will just be too much. I think there was some >> confusion between distances being referred to in miles vs kilometers >> between me and some other guys in the group, and all of a sudden when I >> plotted the GPS route I discovered my daily average would be about 140km >> per day for 10 days straight. That's leaving no room for unexpected and >> planned stops, weather, injury, gear malfunction and other delays. >> >> So, even though my flight is already booked into Edmonton, I'll be >> renting a car and driving straight to Banff for the start. I'm hoping to >> get in at least 20km of riding the first day so I can bush camp outside of >> town. >> >> The plan is still to ride the Atlantis, though I have also just purchased >> a new bike this week: a Crust Evasion, or DFL as they will be known moving >> forward. This is a new brand started by a friend of mine. I toured with him >> on the Oregon Outback last year while he rode his prototype frame, so I had >> a lot of time to check it out. >> >> It's a 26" Plus rigid frame, with clearance for 26" x 3" tires, or 650b x >> 2.5. I'm tempted to bring this on the ride for the additional tire width, >> but I won't even have the bike for at least another month, which doesn't >> leave much time to finish building it up, test it, and leave on a long >> back-country trip. We'll see. >> >> >> >> On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 2:27:42 PM UTC-5, Tony wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> I did the Adventure Cycling Montana Great Divide route a few years ago >>> on my Sam Hillborne with Albatross bars. It was a fully supported ride, >>> meaning they carried our gear in a van. >>> My Flickr account is only 3 pages and most are of that week.PM me if you >>> have any questions I can help with. >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/51959000@N08/page1 >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> "Where the rivers change direction - across the Great Divide" _ Kate Wolf >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 2:10:25 PM UTC-8, Mark Reimer wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> . How about it, any of you taken your Rivs on this trail? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
