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  • 11 year old Minipips' 2000 mile Tour de France.
  • richpips
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    Tom and I are just back from a great trip round France on the Alpkit tandem.

    Here’s what I’ve written so far, there’s more to follow. 🙂

    http://minipips.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/tour-de-france-intro.html

    http://minipips.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/tour-de-france-prologue.html

    http://minipips.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/french-divide-depart.html

    Posted 7 years ago
    mtbfix
    Full Member

    Inspiring stuff!

    Posted 7 years ago
    jekkyl
    Full Member

    marking for looking at later, love hearing about cycle tours.

    Posted 7 years ago
    atlaz
    Free Member

    Nice work. I may have actually been around the atlantic coast when you rode that way. Didn’t see a tandem mind you

    Posted 7 years ago
    IHN
    Full Member

    Awesome.

    Posted 7 years ago
    dickster
    Free Member

    That looks like super stuff. Well done 🙂

    Posted 7 years ago
    leffeboy
    Full Member

    how do you bookmark this stuff? That looks awesome

    Posted 7 years ago
    Nipper99
    Free Member

    He’s a very lucky lad to have you as a dad.

    Posted 7 years ago
    kimbers
    Full Member

    thats amazing

    well done to both of you

    I remember minipips at the mega many years ago whizzing around the campsite in Allemont on his balance bike (or was he just toddling then?)

    Posted 7 years ago
    bruneep
    Full Member

    <like>

    Posted 7 years ago
    richpips
    Free Member

    @kimbers he was still in nappies then. I think his sister had just learned to ride her bike.

    He was only asking me the other day as to when he’d be old enough to do the Mega. 😉

    Posted 7 years ago
    martinhutch
    Full Member

    He’s a very lucky lad to have you as a dad.

    And vice versa! Wish my lad was even up for a mini-adventure.

    Posted 7 years ago
    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    Looking forward ot the rest of the blog post instalments!

    Posted 7 years ago
    richpips
    Free Member

    The next installments….

    http://minipips.blogspot.com/2016/08/french-divide-to-reims.html

    http://minipips.blogspot.com/2016/08/french-divide-to-toulon-sur-arroux.html

    http://minipips.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/french-divide-auvergne.html

    Posted 7 years ago
    leffeboy
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    What do people do for accommodation on the French divide? Is it pure camping or do folks just do whatever suits?

    Great looking trip

    Posted 7 years ago
    Bregante
    Full Member

    Brilliant adventure. Cheers for posting.

    Posted 7 years ago
    richpips
    Free Member

    What do people do for accommodation on the French divide?

    We camped in campsites, and wild camped. Others bivvied, and some people took regular advantage of hotels, though you’d have to do plenty of homework if you were going to rely on hotels.

    Posted 7 years ago
    jamj1974
    Full Member

    Excellent!

    Posted 7 years ago
    leffeboy
    Full Member

    Thanks for that. It didn’t look as if people were carrying much so I wondered. Inspirational stuff really

    Posted 7 years ago
    mrblobby
    Free Member

    Great stuff 🙂

    Posted 7 years ago
    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    I’m sharing this with the mini_oab’s in an attempt to inspire them.

    Posted 7 years ago
    richpips
    Free Member

    There’ll be an epilogue at some stage, but I’m done for now. 🙂

    http://minipips.blogspot.com/2016/08/tour-de-france-heading-south-west.html

    http://minipips.blogspot.com/2016/08/tour-de-france-heading-north.html

    Posted 7 years ago
    cvilla
    Full Member

    Outstanding, I love a blog with pics and cycles:). As other parents will say great to inspire, not quite sure my teenager would do all that on a bike with her Dad through.
    Chateau to you both.

    Posted 7 years ago
    richpips
    Free Member

    Gear and a warning.

    http://minipips.blogspot.com/2016/09/tdf-gear-and-cautionary-few-words.html

    Posted 7 years ago
    Hoff
    Full Member

    Great stuff & thanks for sharing!

    Posted 7 years ago
    deft
    Free Member

    Awesome stuff! Any thoughts on the French Divide route bike-wise? Seemed to be a bit of everything at the start line. I’ve nabbed the GPX files and fancy giving it a go slow-time next year.

    Posted 7 years ago
    fourbanger
    Free Member

    Gear and a warning.

    Yes, I swapped my shoes to ones with a neoprene ankle boot just before a tour. I had worn them on day rides before, but they weren’t my usual shoe. Nearly ended my tore as they aggrevated my Achilles so much.

    Posted 7 years ago
    richpips
    Free Member

    Any thoughts on the French Divide route bike-wise?

    Yep, there was everything from CX bikes clad in file treads to fat bikes.

    I reckon an MTB with a fastish rolling tyre.

    Posted 7 years ago
    edhornby
    Full Member

    I’ll be perusing these over wine tonight, well done both of you

    Posted 7 years ago
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