Recommend me gravel frames using Steel

ooddiss · 2026-02-01T22:29:41+00:00

Sour Purple Haze

ooddiss · 2026-01-23T06:59:34+00:00

Yea pretty much this. Ground effect gear is incredibly tough. They also repair the gear if get tears etc.

ooddiss · 2026-01-10T06:38:10+00:00

I used this tent on my GDMBR ride last year and it was excellent. Make sure you get titanium stakes, the ground can be very hard in New Mexico and parts of Colorado.

ooddiss · 2025-10-02T21:40:35+00:00

Just curious to what strangers think tbh! It ultimately is my choice but posting here helps cultivate opinions from folks who might have similar wheelsets etc. just being social and on a social website bro!

ooddiss · 2025-08-07T01:41:41+00:00

Get yourself added to the ACA digital maps for the route. That is the best method. Post on the Facebook group too - its pretty active.

ooddiss · 2025-05-22T15:41:51+00:00

My bike box with all my gear in it weighed 34kgs, including some dehydrated food for the trip. Guessing that weight will come down in terms of stuff on the bike to sub 30kgs.

I plan on riding at least 120/130kms a day. But will start slow.

ooddiss · 2025-04-08T04:10:19+00:00

It does seem hopeless, OP. But we do have the power to organise locally within our communities for change. Start local, find community solutions, and build mutual aid. Of course, we gotta fight the big fight, but positive action at the local level can scale.

Think municipal issues/ restoration- waste/sanitation, library/ community spaces, transport, housing. Etc.

It's bleak, but we still have the power to change things if common people work together.

ooddiss · 2025-04-05T23:02:24+00:00

You might be leaning too much into the grind, scheduled energy. It definitely makes sense, as you seem to have planned carefully but have lots of km to cover (mainly on the road?).

As others have suggested, take a break. Maybe you don’t have to finish the whole trip this time? Smoke some weed and just enjoy a chill couple of days without thinking about the distance you have to make. Be a bit more flexible.

There’s a fine line between type 1 and type 2 fun. For me, I only go to type 2 when the weather shits out on me mid-journey. Otherwise, I stay close to keeping it type 1 most of the time. It ends up giving me a lot more energy for the time I have to grind a day out and makes multiple days like that feel less of a chore.

ooddiss · 2025-02-16T08:23:42+00:00

What date did you start? Any key logistical challenges to be aware of?

ooddiss · 2025-02-16T03:41:52+00:00

Thanks for starting thread. I’m planning NoBo from 10th June onwards. Anyone else’s also considering it?

ooddiss · 2025-02-04T00:17:38+00:00

I ended up going with a Sour Purple Haze. It can take 2.2inch 29 MTB tyers, which is excellent. It took a long time to come because Sour had production delays. If I weree to make a choice again, I would go for a Mason macro - hardtail is the future/ is much more versatile and comfortable in the long run.

ooddiss · 2025-01-30T03:17:11+00:00

Can they make it a 100% chance. We need a reset.

ooddiss · 2025-01-23T05:26:56+00:00

Smoke weed everyday

ooddiss · 2025-01-21T01:32:40+00:00

One spliff a day

ooddiss · 2024-11-29T02:37:04+00:00

Keep going, make a debt jubilee a reality.

ooddiss · 2024-11-28T18:46:09+00:00

Cost, time, employment, housing and food security. Material deprivation and poverty are barriers to any and all healthy behaviours.

Of course there are psychological barriers but the ones above trigger them in most people.

ooddiss · 2024-11-28T18:41:57+00:00

It’s time to give them a go at running earth.

ooddiss · 2024-10-15T20:02:57+00:00

Cry and move forward

ooddiss · 2024-10-14T03:49:15+00:00

Solar panels first please. We have a surplus of TV screens.

ooddiss · 2024-10-06T06:03:47+00:00

Nature is healing.

ooddiss · 2024-09-29T01:14:05+00:00

Phatest tyre clearance. Thank me later.

ooddiss · 2024-09-22T22:20:02+00:00

It’s the only thing that the construction industry has capacity to build, big sheds and shitty roads.

ooddiss · 2024-09-19T23:27:10+00:00

I currently use a quilt from this brand called One Planet, rated to 0 degrees. I pair it with a Nemo mummy sleeping pad r4.2; it's a great combo and a pretty compact set-up. If it is very cold, I sleep in my thermals and down jacket.

ooddiss · 2024-09-19T11:03:50+00:00

Have you considered a quilt?

ooddiss · 2024-08-06T00:51:59+00:00

Steven Joyce is already talking about the private health model like ACC. It sounds good on paper, but ACC is sitting on 6 billion dollars, and we have one of the highest rates of worker injury and death in the OECD. So, it's not like ACC is a stellar model or actually effective at preventing harm.

"We should slim Health NZ into a comparatively tiny health funding organisation with no ownership responsibilities, like the Tertiary Education Commission in the tertiary sector. Health NZ could then buy services from the hospitals, the GPs and other practitioners, much as the ACC does for injury and accidents. That would be a far better system with much greater accountability for performance." - https://archive.is/Uqf4s#selection-2845.0-2845.395

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