Old 06-02-08, 04:08 AM
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Suggest you go up and down the same way, namely on the up in short not exhausting sections so you can enjoy it and too in sections but a bit longer. The point being for the down hill run to avoid your rims becoming over heated and placing the tubes at risk of a blow out. This has not happened to me but friends have had this nasty experience.

We have mechanical disc brakes (Avid bb7) which worked well on a 30 km descent in the Alps with a fully laden tandem pulling (or in this case being pushed by) a 40kg trailer load. 200kg all up.

Take it easy. You should be fine.
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