Originally Posted by MarkS
Wow. Its like playing "Where's Waldo" to find all the bananas. I count about 60 oz of suspiciously yellow liquid there. How far did you say you were going? What's the long silvery thing below the bottom bar? A pump?
Wrong on so many counts!
Those are actually granola bars, but they do look suspicously like bananas. You're not the first to think so and they are definitely sneaky. Sadly, I really don't like bananas so I'm missing out on nature's perfect food. It's about an even metric to my campsite from the front door. Of course the fluid is gatorade + water... gotta have a lot of that isotonic goodness when pushing a 61 gear-inch fixed machine on offroad tires in 90+ degree heat (talk about timing). Even so, I ended up stopping and buying another 24 oz on the road. The thing under the downtube is a mud shield.
I'm actually going down there again this weekend, but I'm taking the train this time. It was fun doing the self-supported thing, but it wasn't worth the agony near the end and never being quite fully recovered all weekend.
Blast off in 60 minutes.