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Au contraire Neal!!! I strongly rcommend tbe Allsup’s gut grenade! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.They are like a bicycle JATO unit!!

I remember archaeologist son’s room mate while at tech destroyin’ the one holer at the old Allsups in Post.

Wasn’t pretty!

Yep. They’ll damn sure clean you out. 😬

This is fascinating. When you finish, I hope you will post a list of all the stuff that added 50 pounds to the bike. How many spare tubes or do you take patch kits? Can you do laundry on the way? Can you keep tire pressure up with one of those little frame mounted pumps?

I always wanted to do something like you're doing. 87 degrees here and I averaged just over 10 mph riding 20 miles today. Of course all I take are two water bottles. Mild hills you wouldn' t notice when driving can be brutal. One minute you're clawing up a hill at 5 or 6 mph. A minute later coasting down at 30 mph. I use 20 of my 21 speeds. The lowest one is so low it's hard to keep the bike from tipping.

Birdwatcher

When you get to Montana, please let me know. Would be a pleasure to grab a beer or dinner and hear about your journey.

Safe travels and spin it out!

Worked out the water deal, i now have six 24oz bottles plus a 3L Camelback bladder. So now out here I don’t gotta stop where there’s water. For example I’m at the DQ in Stirling City now, forty miles/five hours to Big Spring. If I roll about 7pm I can cover two hours of that before I quit at dark
Rolled out of the motel at 9am, found Ft Concho, the bookstore is now a cowboy boot place. Awful time finding breakfast, all the place had across from the old bookstore site was bagels. Ate four, rolled out at 11am.

Hwy 87 so far is GREAT, low grades, wide smooth shoulder. Paused for a 2hr nap en route.

I am happy to report that White people in Stirling City are still having kids. I am less happy to report they all bring em to the DQ about this time of day.

Two rules on a bike trip; never pass up an opportunity to eat and never pass up a bathroom opportunity. Eating a chicken taco salad with yesterday’s lettuce now. Gonna pick up a half gallon of milk on the way out of town and sleep out under the orbiting space junk, just like the cowboys did

Watch out for the wolves and coyotes.

I got 18 rounds of 147grains apiece says I win. If that ain’t enough, ya know what they say out here, save the last bullet for yer self.

Great thread' be safe in your travels.

Wide open Country between Sterling City & Big Springs.
You’ll have an ample view of the sky tonight and good weather. Be safe. Truck traffic will get heavy when you hit Big Springs

cool beans birdie!

Seen any interesting feathered friends of the unexpected variety?

Keep the pics coming, I'm getting a vicarious TX vacation.

Not familiar with that snake here. Guessing a lyre snake of some sort?

Geno

33 pound steel bicycle, 20 pounds of rack and panniers (Orleib, spendy but the ONLY way to go), 30 pounds of stuff, plus toolset, spare chainring. Extra tire (folded). Five or six spare tubes.

TIRES: it’s like Shakespeare said... “Costly thy tires as thy money can buy”...... Schwalbe Marathon Mondials.... $80 per... uber flat resistant.

Big straw hat over nylon “Buff” tube headwear, oversized nylon UPF 50 fishing shirt, loose fitting pants of same material. Wears like iron, ya can feel breezes though it, hand washes in the shower, drip dries to just damp overnight. Extras roll up compact and weigh very little.

Brung a Lenzyne mini-floor pump ($70), will fit on the frame but I stuff it in a pannier. All aluminum, rebuildable, works fine. I check tire pressure once a week, 80psi will be 65 in a week, either one works.

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Sure, but I’m running on “if’s” and not “whens” at this point.

I always wondered how the heck they named that spot “Sterling City” ?

‘89 Schwinn Voyageur, only the frame, shifters and deraillieurs are original. Big ol cheapo Bell handlebar mirrors, one on each side. I watch em constantly, doesn’t mean I can’t get taken out. Per hour or per mile, IMHO road bicycling is way more dangerous than motorcycling.

Your trip reports are interesting. Keep 'em coming.

Enjoy your adventure.

Birdy,

It looks like the lens on on your cell phone is dirty or greasy, or maybe scratched. If its just dirty or greasy, all you need to do is clean it with a clean cloth and your pics should clear up really well. Hope this helps!

mike i'll pretty much be following your route when i head to littlefield tx next month. but i will be a passenger in my brothers car.

Thanks to how wide the Central Time Zone is, usable light out here all the way until 9:30pm. At which time God arranged for a roadside picnic area to appear. Looks clean. Ordinarily I wouldn’t choose such a obvious spot to put in for the night but the roadsides the last two hours since SC have been rough and rocky. Only smooth spots were the concrete aprons of drain pipes going under the highway which could be magnets for critters of all sorts, many of which prob’ly aint condusive to a good nights sleep. There is one about 100 yards away where I could go if I need to crap.

Two 24oz water bottles drank in the last two hours, working on a third. Three left, plus 3L of water in the Camelback in reserve. 25 miles (three hours) to I20 and Big Spring in the morning. On 24oz bottle is soaking two green tea bags and a packet of sugar for my morning shot of caffeine.

Peaceful out here, just the frequent roar of passing trucks, a lit up industrial site about 100 yards away (other direction) and the friendly blinking red Christmas lights of the windmills on the hilltops all around.

Prob’ly just gonna sleep on a table, no skeeters so far. Not really hungry after the DQ experience and obligatory chocolate milk before leaving town. Might leave the 1/2 gallon of milk until morning, it’ll prob’ly keep.

I had forgotten about all the Wind Turbines our there.
You’ll see a ton of those on the way to Lubbock.
I’m pretty sure the road turns into a 4 lane north of I-20.
I’m pretty sure there’s a McDonalds in Lamesa if your headed that way.

It’s the case. Looked in Walmart last night for a replacement, the Otterboxes won’t fit easily in a shirt pocket or in my handlebar bag. I bought a $19 cheapo the size of my present spendy Lifecase but WTF when I unpacked it at the hotel it was just a frame and back with no screen protection.

Prob’ly I’ll pick up an Otterbox in Big Spring tomorrow.