I had two pinch flats due too being too lazy to check tire pressure on rocky descends. And the front derailleur cable ripped. I think thw tools are fine. The only thing i can’t really do is loosen my pedals, but any car or bike shop can do that for me, same with the tightening (before and after flying). But f.e. i have never broke a chain in my life, i think next time i’ll just leave the chain tool at home.

I think you can’t prepare for everything maintenance wise, but usually it’s just flats that i have, if at all. Once i broke a pedal but could fix it with cable ties to make it to the next bike shop (broke it halfway riding rocky terrain and then fully weeks later just pedalling, bearing balls were almost all gone).

Some loose screws if you have mounted something new, but after a second tightening they usually stay firm for me. That reminds me of another problem i had this trip. I was using these little helpers for my fork cages, as i only have one lowrider eyelet on the fork. I use those so i can remove the cages more easily when not touring. One of those broke, that was because the other screw in the actual lowrider eyelet got loose and leverd it till it broke. I will replace it, not giving up on the system but keep more of an eye on the loosening. And bring an extra regular hose clamp, which is what i had used before.

The fix. Did not bring a hose clamp but was not hard to find one.

Insects were no problem, although yesterday at that spot i had a tic on me, but i spotted it early. I actually forgot to bring my tic removal tool, it’s real nice, bought it in a pet supply store. Just two small plastic hooks, better than the credit card thingies imo. Other than that just a few mosquitos and annoying flies. Did not use any repellent.

That was a bit verbose i guess :)

Edit: i forgot to mention in my gear list that i brought one shifting and one brake cable too. And i guess bringing some extra screws would not harm but i didn’t.

Bonus pic from this morning. Was really nice with the clouds in the valley.

I have posted my gear for this trip here:

https://lemm.ee/post/29991477

If you have any questions i’m happy to answer.

Hahaha. Those snickers bars are my emergency breakfast, hope they’re still in my panniers.

That looks cozy with the colors.

Hiking in the Dolomites maybe? Heard very good things about hiking there and september seems like the perfect time / weather. I have never hiked myself and i’m not sure about hiking towards a destination, i cycle tour and for me it’s really always about the path, not the destination. The dolomites are very spectacular and of course you get to hike to places where you don’t get to drive a car or whatever. I took note of the new “rifugio passo santner” and “bivouac fanton”, for when i am in the area, i think they look fantastic, but no tent needed for those.

Coffee time

Yes it is. Good morning :)

It’s what the brand ‘exped’ calls their pump sacks. I like the name (and i have an exped mat - and theit bags are big, 3 pumps and full, haha).

Haha, i got the sheep on the street further south, way further south though iirc.

With the moose… at first i didn’t realize what i was seeing, i had just woke up and left my camp and thought what the hell is this sculpture in the field, that wasn’t here yesterday!? They were very close, two mooses, just standing still. They’re huge! Was awesome to see them.

Holy shit, that is awesome.

I was cycling south from Tromsø last year but sadly did not see any reindeer.

I saw moose (elk) though, that was something.

Fantastic view. Did you spend new years eve there too?

If they want genocide, what do they need the face recognition for?

It was the very end of october, the weather was absolutely perfect, about 26°C max in the daytime, strong sun, sunny every day, only one time i was wearing a jacket in the evening when i was camping higher up in the mountains.

Jumping in to ask if there’d be a good reason to use a stand alone feed reader instead of using the nextcloud “news” app?

I have been using calyxos since the pixel 4a was kinda new. Not sure how i learned about it, i don’t know much about degoogling, but i really like it. I sometimes use google maps with it though, for car navigation and local business search in cities i don’t know well. Mostly using f-droid for apps but i have a few installed from google via the aurora store.

On my old nexus 7 tablet i have lineage installed but i hardly use it because of the weak battery.

So, with the help of the nice people from what’s this plant, i am quite certain this is a carob tree.

I wanted to say a tamarisk tree but the leaves don’t check out. I don’t know, sorry. Here you can see more of it:

edit: I made this a topic in the what’s this plant community

The photo is about camping, not photography. That is also just the light and what my phone makes of it, unless something goes over my head here.

FTR, i just received my replacement mat. Since the synmat ul is no longer available, i got the successor mat, the ultra 3r. And another shnozzle bag. Nice. Contact with exped was very good.