Author Topic: [HAMR] Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel) (Read 460985 times)

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #1850 on:** 13 March, 2015, 09:54:54 am »

Quote from: Frank9755 on 13 March, 2015, 09:49:36 am

Quote from: mrcharly on 13 March, 2015, 08:28:02 am
He doesn't have a single bike with 'fenders'. Heavy gritty spray into your face every day for a couple of hundred miles would be absolutely miserable.

Not just in your face: getting a wet arse is a huge saddle sore risk!
He might be better off using the recumbent when it rains.

Instant fenders is plastic curtain track, wire coathangers and gaffer tape.

offcumden · « **Reply #1851 on:** 13 March, 2015, 09:58:57 am »

Quote from: Frank9755 on 13 March, 2015, 09:49:36 am

He might be better off using the recumbent when it rains.

With local weather stations warning of flash-flooding in Arkansas he'd probably need a snorkel - as he indeed suggested on FB.

Frank9755 · « **Reply #1852 on:** 13 March, 2015, 11:11:56 am »

Quote from: Ningishzidda on 13 March, 2015, 09:54:54 am

Instant fenders is plastic curtain track, wire coathangers and gaffer tape.

Absolutely: for the 24-hour TT last year I made a mudguard out of two thick cable ties and insulation tape. It worked very well. The pusher-offer thought it looked like a fuse for a rocket!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1853 on:** 13 March, 2015, 11:21:19 am »

Quote from: mrcharly on 13 March, 2015, 08:28:02 am

He doesn't have a single bike with 'fenders'. Heavy gritty spray into your face every day for a couple of hundred miles would be absolutely miserable.

Surely mudguards are compulsory

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1854 on:** 13 March, 2015, 01:15:09 pm »

re Tarzan's 'short' day. Seems he had mechanical breakdowns (hence taking bike to shop), heavy rain and another crash. Dunno if the crash was caused by weather or motons, he didn't say.

Jaded · « **Reply #1855 on:** 13 March, 2015, 01:37:58 pm »

Kim · « **Reply #1856 on:** 13 March, 2015, 03:19:22 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly on 13 March, 2015, 08:28:02 am

He doesn't have a single bike with 'fenders'.

Probably just as well that he's going for the Leggian approach; he'd only break them.

The 'bent should be okay without them. It's not like anyone's riding with him.

offcumden · « **Reply #1857 on:** 13 March, 2015, 03:30:48 pm »

Tarzan's tracker seems becalmed for the second day in a row, although yesterday somehow he ended up with 169mls. Is Little Rock in some sort of GPS Bermuda Triangle?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1858 on:** 13 March, 2015, 03:35:42 pm »

No update for the thick end of two hours

Revellinho · « **Reply #1859 on:** 13 March, 2015, 03:38:41 pm »

It seems to have come to rest outside a transmission and suspension repair workshop.

Basil · « **Reply #1860 on:** 13 March, 2015, 03:40:19 pm »

Oh dear, he doesn't seem to be having an awful lot of luck, does he?
Or is it the campervan this time?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1861 on:** 13 March, 2015, 03:59:58 pm »

He's very dependent on that campervan and 80k+ miles in a year is quite a lot on a vehicle. Would be very surprising if it got through the year without a breakdown and needing parts.

offcumden · « **Reply #1862 on:** 13 March, 2015, 04:02:58 pm »

If the van, or one of his bikes, was kaput you'd expect him to ride round the block until it was fixed.

Given that the tracker exhibited similarly strange behaviour yesterday, my money is on it being a Garmin/Strava glitch.

Sea of vapours · « **Reply #1863 on:** 13 March, 2015, 04:03:29 pm »

Surely, at the moment, he's not relying on the camper van? He's in home territory and his latest video showed him leaving from a house with a car porch. I'd imagine that's most probably Alicia's place. (Not that any of that detracts from his ultimate reliance on the van, unless he plans to not go on the road again, which seems unlikely.)

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1864 on:** 13 March, 2015, 04:06:54 pm »

Quote from: offcumden on 13 March, 2015, 04:02:58 pm

If the van, or one of his bikes, was kaput you'd expect him to ride round the block until it was fixed.

Given that the tracker exhibited similarly strange behaviour yesterday, my money is on it being a Garmin/Strava glitch.

Yesterday he said "rain. bike repairs, crash - but we kept moving - just in circles"

Guess today is same strategy, hopefully without the crash.

bobb · « **Reply #1865 on:** 13 March, 2015, 04:12:04 pm »

Quote from: offcumden on 13 March, 2015, 04:02:58 pm

Given that the tracker exhibited similarly strange behaviour yesterday, my money is on it being a Garmin/Strava glitch.

I'm not sure there was anything wrong with the tracker yesterday - he just did a lot of his miles late in the evening when most of us were tucked up in bed.

Looks like it's been very wet again...

Psychler · « **Reply #1866 on:** 13 March, 2015, 05:17:53 pm »

No movement on the tracker for 3 3/4 hours now. Hope it's technical glitches not retirement or worse!

bryn · « **Reply #1867 on:** 13 March, 2015, 05:21:18 pm »

Quote from: Sea of vapours on 13 March, 2015, 04:03:29 pm

He's in home territory and his latest video showed him leaving from a house with a car porch. I'd imagine that's most probably Alicia's place.

On the facebook video she does say something like "leaving my house".

Later in the video she mentions a broken crank and more road rash. Never-the-less they both sound remarkably cheerful - seem to be really likeable folks I'd be happy to ride with (probably in the campervan unless Kurt were to slow down a lot!).

Bryn

red marley · « **Reply #1868 on:** 13 March, 2015, 05:49:48 pm »

Loved the quote from that video:

Alicia: "They even cleaned [your bike] for you."
Kurt: "Hey, they had to clean it just to see it!"

Hour after hour of rain is tough on the spirits. Kudos to Kurt.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1869 on:** 13 March, 2015, 06:08:36 pm »

Still no update. I hope he's OK.

It's an interesting calculation he has to take: he's demonstrated that he's capable of 250-mile days in good conditions, 40 in excess of the target, so it's no great problem if he has the odd one that's 40 miles below it when the conditions are really bad. He can't allow too much of a build-up, though.

loadsabikes · « **Reply #1870 on:** 13 March, 2015, 06:09:15 pm »

They both seemed in good spirits.
Keep going Kurt!

bobb · « **Reply #1871 on:** 13 March, 2015, 06:21:21 pm »

He's on the move!

Edit: Or is he?!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1872 on:** 13 March, 2015, 06:50:36 pm »

Currently moving at 15mph, having covered 26 miles today.

Edit: allegedly.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1873 on:** 13 March, 2015, 07:45:39 pm »

Up to 39 alleged miles now, but his speed remains in single figures.

drgannet · « **Reply #1874 on:** 13 March, 2015, 07:57:43 pm »

Tracker error - he's been going for over 7 hours today.

Author Topic: [HAMR] Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel) (Read 460985 times)

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