2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[Mulezen]

It was 65f on my morning ride I add smugly...then look at the weather and realize I will be below freezing Friday morning. If I choose to bundle up like Stefan ICE will detain me.

 

[Chargeride]

Or offer you a job

 

[Chargeride]

I have purchased a very cheap navigating computer after the last ride had me stopping to get my phone out a ridiculous smount of times.

Its not colour or touchscreen...superb.
It has no maps, just track follow.

I will be testing it and then downloading all the stats, height, power, cadence, temp, wind, achievements, likes and pollen count.

Just kidding, Im not even going to download the app.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I have purchased a very cheap navigating computer after the last ride had me stopping to get my phone out a ridiculous smount of times.

Its not colour or touchscreen...superb.
It has no maps, just track follow.

I will be testing it and then downloading all the stats, height, power, cadence, temp, wind, achievements, likes and pollen count.

Just kidding, Im not even going to download the app.

I can bet it won't connect to your superb Levo electronics Still, it will be better than nothing.
Chris, I read about your privacy concerns. Please ask yourself a question: "Am I that important?"

 

[stompandgo]

Nobody is as important as you, Stefan. The CIA told me so.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Nobody is as important as you, Stefan. The CIA told me so.

I have nothing to hide (I have learnt this phrase from one DJT)

You can even come to visit me

 

[Chargeride]

Lovely, Ive sent your details to Polands Dads Army, they'll be visiting friday.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Lovely, Ive sent your details to Polands Dads Army, they'll be visiting friday.

That's why it is called Black Friday

Did I ever tell you I could shoot?

 

[Chargeride]

You actually resemble Harrison Ford which perfectly ties with your present R2D2 look.

 

[Chargeride]

There you go 38 quid on Amazon, actually full of features, the UI is chinese cheap 'press this for this then it becomes that and then press that becomes what it was before you pressed it'.
But it works fine, throw a GPX file in a folder via usb , select Navigation by mashing all the buttons and happy days .
Comes with a spinny mount, had to use elastic bands, the provided ones were for bar mount

 

[Stefan Mikes]

IGPSport is a known brand.
It is actually the maps that are the most expensive part of any bike GPS computer.
Some weakness of the "breadcrumb GPS navigation" is you get lost on non-obvious trail forks, as you are not assisted by the map, which shows actual terrain features. Turn-by-turn navigation allows automatic re-routing, which is priceless.
Once, I deleted all the maps from my oldest Wahoo to save the memory (and to download only the maps I really needed later). It was one of the most difficult GPS navigated rides I had as I only could see the trail but no map.

I'm glad you now own something of help on your exploration rides. Only please remember that "rubbish in = rubbish out" so using a GPX from something like Google Maps won't help you much

Google Maps trying to find a route from A to B...

Actual route..

Chargeride's Hill in Warsaw

 

[Chargeride]

I make my own GPX files and everyone is a travellers delight, carefully crafted to glide you through mystical terrain with a growing sense of wonder and fullfilment.
I may wander, but if you truly love something then let it go, if it returns then it is yours.

Copy pasted out of owners handbook...maybe

 

[Chargeride]

Anyway, I came to post 'Itchy Boots', this isnt about ebikes, just a human travelling the same dream on a motorbike.
She is an incredibly popular Dutch adventurer who rides and documents the world.
She is in Tajikistan, next to Afghanistan, which is a hot topic in the US.
This video is probably the most incredible solo trip by a female I have ever seen, the trail and the scenery is beyond belief and her interactions with peoples who live in these remote areas are so honest and human in smashes a lifetime of western bias.
She is stuck until locals divert the river, she lost all her documents on the trail and had them returned by locals.
It warms my heart and blows my mind.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

She is in Tajikistan, next to Afghanistan, which is a hot topic in the US.

Our @Dima is planning an e-bike ride around the Caspian Sea, all forbidden -stans including Iran, with Azerbaijan inaccessible by land or sea, and Turkmenistan requiring by law you hire armed bodyguards Would be more interesting to hear a report from someone we know

 

[Mulezen]

Harrison Ford indeed...and I look like Arnold (though I could out lift him) Picture is from my final meet (50yo) in the last century.
As promised the morning was cold and it will be colder tomorrow. I think I'll skip a ride and go see 'One Battle After Another' adapted from a Pynchon novel...and if there's one thing I like more than a pork chop it's a Pynchon novel (Gravity's Rainbow).

The fellow in the left corner in hat, John Callis, was once heavyweight champion in the US.

 

[Chargeride]

Ive started something here.
I think he does in that pic.

 

[Mulezen]

Perhaps…but I look at the bottom frame…try as I might…I just can’t hear the Star Wars theme

 

[Dima]

Our @Dima is planning an e-bike ride around the Caspian Sea, all forbidden -stans including Iran, with Azerbaijan inaccessible by land or sea, and Turkmenistan requiring by law you hire armed bodyguards Would be more interesting to hear a report from someone we know

No need to hire army bodyguards! Just escort with a car according to the law if you travel by bicycle ))

 

[Stefan Mikes]

No , army bodyguards! Just escort with a car according to the law if you travel by bicycle ))

Interesting

 

[Stefan Mikes]

No need to hire army bodyguards! Just escort with a car according to the law if you travel by bicycle ))

Dima, from what I read you get a 5 day visa to cross 500 km in Turkmenistan, sandy roads, no water, maybe no electricity en route? ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO MAKE IT?