Nr Toad River, YT, Canada - Yes, I really really am doing all this riding!
Courtesy of www.SladeRide.com
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PING! PING! WTF!
No, I’m not trying for the UK table tennis team at the next Olympics, nor am I breaking the strings on a guitar (which is sort of like the sound…) but the spokes are breaking on my rear wheel. Just after crossing the Continental Divide in Yukon Territory we notice at camp that I have one (the first…) broken. After Ward’s kind assistance the spoke is repaired and we set off the next morning but then its ping ping ping ping pingety-ping as I break 4 more spokes in the course of 25 miles (again Ward heroically repairs them for me using his 15 years as a bike mechanic!).
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Tags: Adam, Alaskan Highway, Alcan, British Columbia, Canada, Continental Divide, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, Fort St John, Jacky, Mile 0, Pink Mountain, Ranchiera Lodge, rim, Steamboat, Tim, Toad River, Ward, Watson Lake, wheel, Whitehorse, Yukon
Lance ‘done good’ in the TdF; Mark Beaumont of BBC now on different route south; rode in 38 degrees C today! No wind or cloud!
Even Mark Beaumont http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/cyclingtheamericas/ finding 70 mile days in Rockies hard! He’s 2 days ahead of us…
Back on road after rear wheel rebuild! Heat! Heading 2ward Rockies…
In Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, Charles has had some mods. Plan to head south tomorrow with Ward & Jacky. Convoy!
Kluane Lake, YT, Canada - RV, biker & cyclists heaven
Courtesy of www.SladeRide.com…
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Prologue – Peru, September 2005, Jon Slade ‘blog e-mail’ to home…
Firstly, an overlooked incident from the time of my last missive, whilst on mountaineering “manoeuvres” (no Jon, you are not and never have been in the army, Cub Scouts yes) in the Peruvian Andes. We’d been warned about thefts in our particular valley (Ishinca) and on the basis that we made up the only two tents in the whole area had become particularly vigilent, or so we thought.
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Tags: Adam, Alaska, Beaver Creek, border, Burwash Landing, Canada, Cottonwood RV, Fairbanks, Heat, Jacky, Kluane, Lion, Moose, North Pole, Rain, Tim, USA, Ward, Whitehorse, Yukon
Jon breezed past the incredibly impressive 1,000 mile mark whilst heading to Champagne, Yukon.
(Hopefully wearing his Malt Loaf jersey…)
Congratulations!
In middle of Yukon heatwave – Soo HOT! Thanks all 4 continued support 
Just crossed border into CANADA! Done 800ish miles across Alaska. Chuffed
