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The best way is to take LA Metro. You will have to transfer once but is better and easier than trying to ride to Santa Monica.
Perhaps he's Tom Pidcock in disguise. https://youtu.be/fl5Xq3o_1TY?t=290
I'm surprised you're able to get any grip on "wet roads with downhill curves that have soil run off." That's a recipe for any tire to start sliding. Perhaps the front wheel grip is from extra width on the front Contact? A better approach would be to slow down coming into the curve and try to ride as straight as possible across the mud streaks.
And you won't have to deal with midges.
I will be taking a short bicycle tour around the Scottish Highlands, canalligators, a few weeks before my TA trip.
Develop a gear and packing list. Start short and work to longer tours. Take an overnight or weekend trip with all your gear. Then take a week-long trip. Update your list as you learn. The starter trips are good for equipment shakedown, training and fun.All good advice. If you use stuff sacks attach a label (next to nothing at Staples) with the sack's contents listed, then you aren't opening sack after sack to find that pair of warm gloves.
It says it's paraffin based on the bottle.What's T-9A Boesheild product. It is sold and used for stuff other than bike chains. The aircraft industry use it as do gunsmiths and enthusiasts to name a few other uses. It comes in aerosol cans, squeeze bottles, and in larger (gallon etc) cans. Bike shops tend to have the small squeeze bottles or sometimes the aerosol cans. I think it is paraffin based.
I’m hesitant to name the product as chain lube debates are almost religious.Amen
Here's yet another view. I like mine right out of the box without a break-in period. That's for the B17. Th Pro is a different animal entirely.My experience too. When a B17 is new I tend to slide around a bit and that's it.
Englishman Tom Vernon was a social commentator, musician, epicurean and the 'Fat Man on a Bicycle'. He wrote a couple of books under that moniker and even made a number of BBC television programs of his tours, some of which were shown on American PBS. The quote was something he said on one of his six-part 'Fat Man in France' series as he spontaneously stopped to investigate something interesting along the country lane he was riding. I believe one of the 'Fat Man in France' episodes is on Youtube.Me and a couple of friends did some of the stuff that the Fat Man claimed to have done and we very much doubted that he made some of the climbs under his own steam
I have to agree with all the above; it's a bit of a pain, like my old job in fact all this scheduling etc., having to meet people. I much prefer to take my chances with motels even though they might cost a few bucks more. Perhaps that's easy to say as I'm comfortably retired male.Warm showers might be useful. It would not hurt to try it. What I heard is it is kind of a problem. I was a member for a while. Hey cyclist on the Atlantic coast route contacted me for a place to lay over a while. I was perfectly willing to let him stay here and rest. The problem was I was getting to takeoff on a tour of my own. I did not want to alter my schedule. I told him that. In the course of our correspondence he told me I was the only person from warm showers who had answered him when contacted. There is another psych a list on YouTube. That is The Bicycle Touring pro. He said March the same thing about warm showers. He said it took a lot of time to contact members. Some do not even respond. He said it was such a time-consuming thing that he just gave up with it.When I tried it I contacted quite a few and some got back to me. You have to expect that. Some only have the account so they can use it to be guests. Some may be away. Some may not check their email. Some may just ignore it unless they want to host.
The main reason I gave up on it was that setting plans and committing to them didn't fit my style and it was not fair to hosts to ask to stay and then not show up when they wanted notice so they could plan ahead.
