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Go Map! is very good. I use it quite often when I'm out on the bike to tweak roads and trails, etc. Added a new cafe the other day while I was having a coffee!

I find it as easy to use, or easier, than the web based OSM tool on-line on my desktop computer at home. You do have to get used to the way it works, as it's obviously a 'touch' interface rather than using a mouse and pointer. Also, you have to learn how OSM works itself too, tags, adding gates, bridges, cross-roads, etc.

Once you get the hang of it all it's a very powerful tool and can edit anything in the OSM database with ease.

You can record your journey on the iPhone (they are called 'traces') and do your edits afterwards, or edit the OSM base map there and then, live, so to speak. Can feel a bit scary at times, you don't really want to mess things up! Occasionally I upload a GPX track I've recorded on one of my Garmin GPS units onto the iPhone (or iPad) and add missing OSM details from that. The GPS in the iPhone I find not terribly accurate, but the Bing satellite overlay viewable in Go Map! can help a lot.

I had a lot of fun correcting an off-road cycle trail here in Snowdonia that wasn't linked to a particular road crossing for example. Now that junction is routable on Strava, it wasn't before. In 'Lockdown' my wife and I walked all of the footpaths around where we live, many we'd not been on before, a surprising number of which were not on OSM, they are now

The Developer, Bryce Cogswell, is also very friendly and helpful.

Carbaholics may want to have a read of this article, then perhaps consider eating real food?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/well ... ery-vi-prg

I've flown with a bike box many times. But always had some kind of transfer at the destination and then been based in one spot for a week or two.

Having read books like 'Gironimo!' by Tim Moore and 'Dream Road Bike Tour of the Alps' by Jerry Nilson, amongst others, has made me think about unsupported touring on a normal road bike, with a tiny amount of luggage.

One option both these people have suggested is to fly with a normal hard cased bike box and some luggage. Get a taxi to your first hotel near the airport. Spend the night at the hotel getting ready. Arrange to leave any spare stuff in the bike box in the hotel, normal clothes, etc. Do a loop of one or two weeks. Reverse it all at the same hotel to fly home. This does sound quite convenient and simple to me.

ianrobo wrote:

Vorpal wrote:

ianrobo wrote:Nothing for me, do 100miles with just eggs and butter for brekkie a couple of hours before

I'd never make 100 miles on that! I'd be lucky to make 50!

it is the power of fat adaption but means a strong desire to really cut the carbs as I discussed on other threads.

Same here. I've been fat adapted / metabolically adaptive for a year now. I have regularly ridden 200km+ rides with only a breakfast of: sausage, eggs, bacon, avocado, black pudding, etc. No beans or bread. Very tasty. Manage always to do the whole ride very comfortably and never feel hungry. I don't do this all the time, just to see if it's possible really, which it is.

Rode Geneva / Nice this year as an organised / supported ride. The carb addicts had to stop every 20km or so to fuel up on various expensive sugary things. I just rode on. Made it to the hotel on average an hour and a half before the rest of the team, plenty of time for recovery red wine Rode very strongly on the last day too, much to my surprise, the carb addicts were exhausted and very low on energy, no matter how much sugar they tried to eat. Quite interesting!

As far as I am aware most if not all competitive endurance athletes who want to win their events are using Low Carb / Hight Fat (LCHF) for part of their year. Gets you ultra-lean in the off season, some carbs may be necessary when competing, depending on the length and intensity of the event. I'm still learning / experimenting on this aspect for me.

Carb fuelling, for say 24hour+ events just doesn't make sense or work at all, tricky to carry and use that much sugar, not very healthy either. It's quite interesting to read about how the All Blacks rugby team have fully embraced the LCHF lifestyle. Apparently, their coach only lets them eat some carbs before a match, (they do a fair bit of sprinting I guess) none at all afterwards! works for them, being quite good at it, etc.

BTW, eating fat does not make you fat or clog your arteries, its the carbs and sugar that does this, hence the need to never ever eat of buy anything labeled 'low fat' - its just full of sugar and chemicals to make it palatable

If a nutritionist tells you saturated fat is bad for you, find another one Fat is what the human body has been largely fuelled on for 1000's and 100'0's of years, it what we are designed to eat.