Simon arrived on the 8th from New-Zealand and picked me up at the airport on the 9th. It was great to see him again and to finally arrived in Canada to start this adventure. It wasn’t as cold as I was thinking and today is again a sunny day.

The initial status is like this: 2 men, 1 bike, 0 trailer - so it could be better but at least it’s starting somewhere. We will look today for Simon’s bike again and the trailers will come beginning of next week since MEC messed up with our order.

Yesterday evening I mounted my bike :-) A pleasure to see it! Pictures will come later after today’s ride.

We are still thinking what will be the right way to carry our load of gears needed. We can see 3 possibilities.
The first one would be to have a trailer like the Bob gear one, Ibex trailer, but it weights almost 8kg on its one. What are the parts which are most likely to brake? How much can you load the bag? Does it stay stable at high speed, is there a speed limit? What about riding in the rain, mud? And last but not least, you need to think about carrying it in the plane on the way back, if it’s worth to keep it for another adventure…

The second alternative would racks on the side of the bike with bags attached to them. Is it easy to ride on a mountain bike with bags in the front and in the back of the bike? Is there any part of the rack what might brake? How would you balance the weight between the front and back bags? How does it feel on a bumpy downhill? Easy to ride at high speed ...