Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Day 2

Today was setup day. Brought the bikes to The Ski Shop to have the them tuned up. The Ski Shop is owned by Jason Kucey and is the premier shop for all Tour Divide necessities. He services most of the racers of the Divide and told us we are on our way to the criteria of Ultra-Light. Woohoo! We are bikepackers! We picked our bikes up later and they were moving so smoothly. Just like new! Thanks Steve!
We spent the rest of the day roaming the town and visited the Banff Springs Hotel to find the start for tomorrow. The people in Banff are incredible friendly. For example today Uncle Jeff and I went to purchase stamps from the post office and in an attempt to be frivolous about our weight on the bikes we tried to make $3.67 in coins. Well we didn't have enough and the postman let us have it for less and took American quarters. We begin our journey tomorrow, 70.4 miles to Tonberry Cabin hopefully before the bears get to hungry. The bikes are ready we will get plenty of rest and the weather is absolutely perfect. Oh yah tomorrow is Canada Day. So happy Canada Day! I wonder if we will see any fireworks from the cabin?

Jazz M. Tomassetti

3 comments:

  1. I do not understand, what is " criteria of Ultra-Light?

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  2. this has nothing to do with biking but in the j-ville paper they had a picture of two girls slacklining and sucking it up. why did they find us?

    chris keffer

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  3. Ultralight bikepacking is the advanced technique of carrying minimal amount of gear necessary for a trip. Typical ultralight rigs have a dryweight (weight of bike and gear without food or water) of lessthan 50lbs. Traveling with less weight makes the bike more rideable because one is carrying less weight which means less work done by the rider on the mountains and on the trail.

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