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RAAM PART 1

May 13, 2017

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Bike Set Up for Hoodoo 500 Voyager

Having never set up or used Panniers, its been a bit of a learning experience to figure out what to get. Met some nice people at the Los Altos Bike Outfitter, but they really had no clue what a good set up would be for a modern road bike without eyelets. I did a bit of research and have settled for the Axiom Streamliner Road Rack based on the fact that it was designed for road bikes w/o eyelets. The price was shockingly cheap at $25.00 on Amazon, which is less than a quarter of what I might have picked up at the shop today. This will be critical to a successful Voyager ride and I hope I can figure out a light and solid solution pretty quickly. Going to do a night ride tonight. Harwood, Hicks Both Sides, Reynolds Road, BlackBerry, Aztec Ridge, Black Road, Soda Springs, MonteVina and Bohlman. Should be a nice little ride. I wanted to load up the panniers for specific Hoodoo Voyager training, but will have to wear a heavy backpack instead. Ended up only doing Harwood, Hicks

Trona 353 TT Bike vs Road Bike with AeroBars

New Postition post Trona 353

RAAM 2011

Starting to mentally prepare for RAAM solo in 2011. There never really has been a choice for me. This has been something I have been preparing to do for a long time. I am imagining a RAAM lite experience with two cars with 2-3 people running 12 hour shifts. Lots of time to determine the logistics I guess. http://www.kaisercycling.com/racebudget.html Nice simple cost breakdown of a bare bones RAAM that I would like to follow. I wonder if 2 cars would be that risky? Having 3 seems like more of a headache to me. I was watching the 2006 RAAM documentary and saw how Jonathan Boyer was able to win with 1 vehicle from Kansas after a roll-over accident. I guess 3 cars is a good insurance policy.

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