that's exactly what i said yeah this time yeah
wait it looks exactly the same why are you laughing yeah it's an orange bike but he's like
microsoft pen yeah i mean that was no that wasn't even max that would be on
my phone just like editing the photo you should you're an artist right i mean yeah
tell me about your bike this is a cool one this is a cool one this is my new for this season laughs
cigla so lauth is an icelandic company uh they have super chunky gravel kind of like here so
this is a brand new bike for this year that has wider tire clearances and a little bit more
compliance in the back as well so like those drop seat stays are designed to just flex a little bit
and it can clear up to 29 by 2.25 or 700 by 57 tires huge huge mountain bike style yeah which
i've done before for unbound this year i'm going with the vitoria torino zeros in a 47 so i've
ridden the unbound a couple times on the 38 flavor of this but i wanted to go a little bit wider this
year it's been a long time since i've done 200 i've been short working on shorter events so i'm
really hoping to just kind of like have a good strong ride this year and complete it and not uh
you know fall apart at 116 miles like it's happened before do you think the events that
you've been focusing on on the track for example the individual pursuit yeah you first person in
the world to ever go under four minutes that's a very short effort it is very short but does
the training for that help you in any way in an event like this i think it's a lot different um
i think it'll take a long time for me to get that like longer endurance back especially um i think
it helps on obviously much shorter events like you know 30 to three hour races but i think it
probably makes you a little bit less efficient for longer distance stuff just because like you're
burning so much fuel you know so yeah i mean this is really focused on like it's probably going to
take me longer than 10 hours the other thing i did you know wider tires are a little more comfortable
um great flat protection on these two i've had really good luck running these in the past
and then the zip 101 explorer wheels um are also like they have a little bit of flexion
in the rim so that makes a huge difference as far as ride quality too especially for super
chunky gravel like this the big thing that life is known for this isn't for their new bike but
on almost all their bikes and standalone parts they do these leaf springs so laugh is actually
icelandic for leaf so these are carbon fiber leaf springs so you can see that the fork actually
moves like 30 mils but that's going to be super handy tomorrow other than that sram axis explorer
drivetrain i feel like that's pretty standard most people are running something like that
um it's one by got a 48 in the front road cleats i really like the lip kios i've just always kind
of had those 40 centimeter zip handle bars and then got the route loaded on the garmin edge
1030 which has been like my computer for years man i love the 1030. road pedals yeah are you
expecting to do any walking tomorrow because i mean if there's thunderstorms yeah i think it
could happen i find that like even if we have to walk a couple miles like i find the comfort
outside of that to be a bigger a bigger difference than like oh okay it's going to take me an extra
30 seconds to scrape off my cleats i actually find keo road pedals shed mud pretty well like because
of the way like the retention clip comes up in the back and kind of pushes mud out to the side
and then it's like a huge platform you can just kind of slap it and get the mud off like
it works okay what's inside this bag right now i guess right now and during this
lock and there is a towel that i used to put over my fork when i had it on the bike rack here
what's going to be in there tomorrow um some snacks i've got uh some gels and waffles like
little liege waffles and little rice cakes spam rice cakes and you're going to ride with like
hydration pack as well yeah i'll do hydration pack and uh just like drink mix in the bottles
guys without saying good luck in the event tomorrow it'll be exciting to see your ride and
yeah i hope you get the result you want me too you too man good luck