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HomeCyclingSwapping power-fixation for panniers is perhaps simpler and extra satisfying than you assume

Swapping power-fixation for panniers is perhaps simpler and extra satisfying than you assume


You’ll be able to cowl a number of floor on a motorcycle, however too typically you find yourself encircling the identical small patch. In your common journey you attain the purpose of figuring out each slight alteration in street floor and the place it occurs; each gradient uptick; and exactly how lengthy it takes, at what common velocity, energy and coronary heart charge. You’ve been doing hundreds of miles however going nowhere. It’s time to shake issues up. String these miles collectively in another way, you realise, and you would truly go someplace and have an incredible expertise.

That’s the way it began for me, earlier than constructing to a record-breaking round-the-world journey in 2009. Since then, I’ve frequently ridden the three,000km between London and Istanbul (half of my household is Turkish), and I’ve spent extended intervals touring Palestine and North Africa. Proper now I’m in Latin America finishing a 15,000km journey that may kind the premise of my subsequent e-book. Since shifting from ‘regular’ biking to long-distance touring (or, bikepacking, should you like), I’ve by no means seemed again – and on this characteristic, I wish to clarify how swapping power-fixation for panniers is perhaps simpler, and extra satisfying, than you assume.

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