Tips for a 24 hour bike ride

[jobob]

Congratulations klesko! That's quite an achievement!

The only thing I messed up was applying excessive bag balm in my enthusiasm when we started and it bled through my shorts onto my bike seat.

Hee hee. When I first read that sentence I thought "OMG she was bleeding!!" but then I re-read it.

[Kiwi Stoker]

Hey well done! My DH and I have done a maximum of 160km (100 mikes) on the tandem and DH says he doesn't want to do any further. He gets too uncomfortable after that.

I find the chamois cream moves through a chamois and our saddles get nice a greasy from that. I call it "conditioning" or "polishing" my saddle! If think the worse time was when DH put soo much on it actually squirted throught the fabric and I had to ride there looking at what looked like bird poop on his backside!!

TdF riders actually coat this chamnois so thickly with the stuff, rather like icing a cake. So I tick it is supposed to be used generously.

[maillotpois]

Congratulations! I just did my first fleche as well - somehow even though the distance was the same, I suffered a lot more from sleep deprivation than any of my 400ks.

I didn't see this thread originally or I would have chimed in: I bring a change of shorts for 600k rides (then I put the old shorts on over the new for extra padding). All else, I just bring extra lantiseptic or chamois butter.