Braking Boundaries

Our Surly touring bikes haven’t arrived here yet and I’m planning on spending a week cycling around South Korea in a couple of days and wanted to carry the majority of the gear that will be carried on our trip next year as a practice run. However this posed a problem a my current bike (Scott Sub 20) doesn’t have the eyelets for attaching my Tubus Tara front rack to the bike. So I got online and managed to track the distributor of Tubus bike racks here in Seoul (http://www.citybike.co.kr) to see what my options were to find out that there is a option that allows the Tara to be attached without eyelets.

Here are some pics of the Tara front rack attached.

A couple of days ago the first of our custom panniers made by Crosso arrived. They are a lot bigger than I thought they would be, although I guess they need to be in order to fit all the camping gear, such as tents, sleeping mats and bags etc. I’m looking forward to trying it out this weekend when I go on my weeks ride around Korea.

Here is a pic of the bag with my camping gear that it will carry

Our Ground Effect bike body bags arrived in the mail two days ago.

I bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago and spent a pretty penny on some bike clothes. I bought the following and will write about each top more after they have had some use.

Storm Trooper
Berglar
Rock Lobster

Dave arrived back a couple of weeks ago with his new recumbent that he plans to use on the trip.

Here is a video of David explaining the new HPVelotechnik Grasshopper and extra features