May 14, 2015

The Pedalshift Project 020: The best bike touring tires + tailwinds forever

20 minutes

The first Pedalshift tour of spring 2015 is right around the corner, so be sure to stay tuned for extra podcasts coming your way to document the trip. We've got followup on some past topics, more tire talk, a featured tour of epic proportions and a brand new bike touring story. Onward!

Hey it's the direct download link for episode 020 (mp3)

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Follow-up

Corrections, aka "Tim is so frequently wrong."

Check out this bike trailer!

Shows every day the last week in May! Newsletter subscribers will get info on a special daily Tour Journals pod for my C&O and GAP ride. Subscribe to the newsletter before the ride and you’ll get an email with the scoop on how to listen.

More on the shows.

The Journal

Keys to Freeze

An amazing tour from Key West to Deadhorse - check out the route

Should be in SF this weekend, PDX June 1st and in Deadhorse late August.

Documentary, a novel and benefitting Ntl Parks Conservation Association and Climate Ride - donate!

Check out images and words in their online journal.

Hi Tim,

We are so excited to start our journey up the Pacific North Coast. We are currently snowed in at a wonderful warmshowers host in Bishop, CA. We are on our way to Yosemite National Park, but Tioga Pass is currently closed. So we shall see what the next couple of days hold. Bike tours are full of unexpected turn of events and exciting adventures. As we enter in the third month of our trip, we are excited to get to Seattle (our half way point). Still feels a bit crazy. We have heard so many amazing things about the Oregon coast and can't wait to see it for ourselves soon.

Thanks for reaching out and let us know when the podcast comes out and we will share it!

Tailwinds forever,

Rachel

Gear Talk

More tire talk!

Schwalbe

Continental

Gatorskins

Tire liners

I vote meh on goo in tubes

Tubeless? Not sure if that's my bag

Wider tires and playing with inflation (see episode 019)

The devils - radial wires and goatheads

My preference: Schwalbe Marathon Supreme (road) and pro (trails or gravel) - "no flats on the entire Pacific coast"

Bike Touring Story

Thank you Samuel P. Taylor... whoever you are

Sometimes the most interesting part of the ride is the last night before the end. Often that happens at the state park a half day's ride from San Francisco in Lagunitas, California...

Music

The Pedalshift Project theme is America courtesy of Jason Kent off his self-titled solo album. Check out his band Sunfields' new release, Habitat, wherever cool music resides.

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