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Winter cycle touring basic tips

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Winter camping sleeping system

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Random tips

Packing a bicycle for air travel
Here is a short video I made a long time ago about packing a box for air travel.
Remember baggage handlers are paid to load things quickly not carefully (believe me I see it everyday). So the trick is to try and make your bike as bombproof as possible without it getting too heavy.
I hope this rather boring film is of use to somebody. Enjoy [...]
Improvised Rohloff cog removal tool
Rather than take a heavy Chain wip and spanner on tour for that once in 5-8000km that you actually reverse the Rohloff cog, I either borrow stuff from other cyclists or use my old chain (which also usually needs replacing around 5000km) to make my own chain wip and borrow a spanner from a local garage. Saving dragging heavy tools around :). T [...]