In this post I show how to pack your bike securely in a BikePod. In this post I reviewed a BikePod (Polaris in this case) versus a Scicon AeroComfort Plus.

The BikePod used in this post is a generic OEM case, not a Polaris.

Step 1
With most bike pods and cases, you need to remove your pedals, handlebars and seat (or else lower the seat).

So we do this in step 1, and remember to put the fork cap back in, with the spacers, and put some electrical tape over it, and the stem screws on the stem, to stop them working loose and going missing in transit (trust me, it happens).

Put the pedals in a plastic bag.

Step 2
We now open our bike pod.

Empty Bike Pod

Laying the case flat with the wheel side down, the wheels are added, and the (usually) provided skewers are used to hold the wheels in place. Do not use your precious skewers. They WILL be damaged.

The bike pod used in this post works reasonably well in this respect, however the skewer for the front wheel is too long, meaning the spring is ineffective.

LET YOUR TYRES DOWN.

Wheels are added

As you can see below, the front wheel rests on the back wheel. In transit, the case may be stored upright, which would reduce in pressure on the spokes, however I don’t like to take chances, so you could add some bubble wrap or an old towel here to protect the front wheel spokes.

Spokes hit

We now lower the foam wheel cover. Note the black plastic brace. This screws into the back wheel skewer and proves a brace across the pod to prevent the wheels bring pressed into the bike frame.

A second, shorter, one is provided for the front wheel, however the front wheel skewer provided wasn’t long enough to allow me to thread the brace on. I had to leave it off, and finish the skewer with the standard cap, hence my comment above about the skewer being too short.

Foam cover

Step 3
Next, we put the other side of the pod flat on the ground, and lay the bike frame in. Many bike pods have an imprint showing how the bike is to be positioned.

Laying it flat, I secure the handlebars down. For added protection, put some bubble wrap around the stem, to protect the frame.

Handlebars removed and secured

Step 4
In the next step, we secure the fork. If your bike pod doesn’t come with foam as shown in the picture, use bubble wrap or similar.

Fork secured

Step 5
Again, foam is used to protect the frame. I have wrapped the strap around the frame to aid the bracing. You could use the foam to protect the fork you’re wrapping the strap around.

Frame secured

Step 6
Before fully tightening the straps, bubble wrap is added generously to the rear derailleur, cranks and fork ends.

In the image below, you can see some plastic in the bottom right. This is my tool bag which I wrapped in plastic.

I then took the old blue polyester blanket you can see top left, and wrapped it around the forks, seat, rear stays and underneath the frame.

I then added some clothes and other soft items (in ziplock bags) to aid padding.

Bike secured

The Outcome
One Around the World flight with no damage.

The same principles can be applied whether packing your bike in a hard case or something like the Scicon AeroComfort Plus. If you use the Aero, make sure to add loads of bubble wrap to all parts of the bike, as the Aero is not as robust as a bike pod, which is made of moulded EVA.

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Stage 16: 2010 Tour de France

Well, the irony is impressive.

After I wrote in my Guide to Cycling in France, for Tour stages, where you plan to ride up a mountain, you MUST ride up a few hours before hand.

I also wrote that you can ignore the gendarmerie. Both of these insights proved true yesterday.

After driving over the Col du Marie Blanque, we parked at Bielle, just off the Tour course, and rode the 10km to the base of the Aubisque. I had a strong feeling we’d be stopped up the road but we proceeded anyway.

The climb ascended very nicely for a bit; 5% or so allowed a cracking tempo.

Once we cleared Eaux Bonnes (a beautiful village), it got much much steeper.

We passed a cracking switchback – perfect for photos (link to S17 report) – but decided to keep going. A guy coming down told us the road was closed.

Sure enough, 2 more km up the road, a gendarme pulled us off the road. Luckily, it was at a cafe, with coffee and Le Tour on TV.

We settled in, but then decided we should head down to the hairpin, as our corner was a super high speed descent. Unfortunately it was too late to head down the road, as the gendarme foiled us again. He did go to his car for a bit, which would have given us the chance to make a run for it, but we weren’t all kitted up.

The caravan started rolling through but there was hardly any schwag thrown out at all. The caravanieres were descending like madmen, and I guess it is dangerous to have people hanging out the side of vehicles.

I did manage to score an Francais de Jeux t-shirt though, so all was not lost.

As the sound of choppers got closer, we could eventually see the team cars, way, way up the mountain.

It’s difficult to describe the tension and excitement of the approaching riders. You have to experience it.

It’s madness, and we love it.

Watching the TV, we knew Armstrong was in a break (not a bad feat for a near 40 year old).

We could hear cheers up the mountain and eventually we could see riders whizzing through the trees, back and forward down the descent.

Media rolled through as about 6-10 riders absolutely mach’d past our position. It was tricky to get photos at the speed they were travelling, so I tried panning with a shutter of about 1/320s, and then grab stills on the servo drive at 1/1000s.

As you can see, some worked.

After the very stretched out peloton was past, we quickly mounted our bikes and descended at warp speed, collecting some Tour signage as souvenirs.

The day after next, we go to watch the final day of climbing, from the Marie Blanque. I really wanted to get the riders on a climb with multiple switchbacks, but it is not to be (unless we go to the Soulor, which has a ripping switchback).

Enjoy!

Ascent to the Aubisque

Here we go again :rolleyes:

The View down the back of the Marie Blanque

The view back up the Marie Blanque - descent Stage 17

The view down over Bielle

The view from the start of the Aubisque ascent

The view up the road

Up the road, sapphire water

Up the road, 9km down

What's that Skip? Looks a bit dangereuse?

Frenchmen are lackadaisical

Yours truly

Here they come

Lance

Lance

FDJ

FDJ

On the edge

On the edge

Omega

Matty Lloyd

AC

AC

Hincapie

Hincapie

Menchov

Menchov

HTC

HTC

Almost over the edge

On the edge

On the edge

Chartreau

Cars

On the edge

Team Support

Team Support

Milram

Stragglers

Stragglers

Stragglers

Stragglers

Sdot - team support

Arveson

Petacchi

Stragglers

Stragglers

Cavendish

Stragglers

Stragglers

Stragglers

Stragglers

Stragglers

Papers from the riders' descent

So, our friend Andrew Clark, who rides under the assumed Dutch name of Oondreuw Klook, won a solo sprint into Bielle yesterday, blasting everyone away in the process.

It was a sight to behold and the excellent commentary (in Dutch) lends a certain extra excellence to Klook’s solo sprint breakaway win.

June 2010: Cold, raining Melbourne.

“Boy, I can’t wait to get to France for L’Etape. We should be able to improve on last year’s 1800th position. It’s going to be so warm, with lazy days filled with riding, Le Tour and croissants”.

July 18th, 2010. 5AM.
“Awesome, I can’t wait to see the broken souls on the side of the road.” (Last year up the Ventoux saw hundreds of broken souls lying on the road, or straddling their bikes, heads down – defeated. What they were thinking, only they will know, but I sympathise with them).

Rolling into town with expensive carbon weapons adorning car roofs everywhere dialled the excitement up. After last year we knew what to expect, but it still doesn’t get old. 10,000 people. A Le Tour etape.

Getting Ready

After getting sorted, we started rolling through Pau’s darkened streets. Gendarmerie manned side streets already. Rolling through old French village streets, some cobbled, with hundreds of other cyclists was awesome.

The start of L’Etape is divided into cages of thousands of cyclists. For instance, the first 500 (or so) are off first as there is an elite cadre that actually race L’Etape. Then it’s 500-1500 and so on, most of whom are probably just out to survive.

As we rolled through the streets, marshals sent us onward to our cage. It was incredible. A maze of streets as cyclists split off to their start areas. We arrived at ours, about 1/3 of the way from the front.

We had 45 minutes to now wait. Nervous laughter and jokes built as tension and excitement built.

7AM. Le Grand Depart.
Allons y! We’re off. “This is AWESOME.” Smashing through hundreds of people out of Pau. The start was an incredible milieu of hardy souls from across the planet. Sky seemed to have half of the field, each with their own individually-named kit.

We had started at the top of the hill above the Pau train station (Gare de Pau). We rolled down the hill via a couple of switchbacks (which will be fun for Le Tour stagieres). Passing the Gare, we were away!

7.33AM. Climb 1.

Everyone takes off. I intensely focus on keeping my heart rate between 160-166bpm to prevent lactate onset. I am successful in that, but not in losing a couple of minutes to our group on a 400m ascent.

This does not bode well.

I drop like a rock off the back. “This is AWESOME.”

8.10AM. The Col du Marie Blanque.
Ordinarily a short 1000-odd metre climb would prove to be a minor ascent, but I feel bad already. Very, very bad.

Everyone takes off as I obsessively focus on keeping my heart down. Recent experience shows me that my fitness is so poor that if I elevate my heart beyond 178-179, I start wheezing, unable to get oxygen. A bike fit by Brian at Lomo got my saddle up 34mm, and a visit to the excellent Dom at First Place Osteo showed I was keeping my left heel too low through each revolution, which was compressing my right hip up toward my shoulder and creating a rounded/crescent shape to the right, thus causing shoulder issues. He also noticed I was recruiting my chest muscles, which was constricting my breathing.

Of course, remembering to counter all these things, as people pass you, and the angry juice starts flowing through your veins, is very, very hard.

The Marie Blanque is surrounded by verdant forest and is absolutely gorgeous. As a result however, it is extremely steamy. Sweat pours off my head as I battle with muscle fatigue which has cruelly set in much, much too early.

“This is interesting. Hmmmm. Why are my legs not working?”. Telling my legs to “Shut up, legs” just makes them more unresponsive. “This is crap”.

Wade from CyclingTips taps me on the shoulder, as he cruises up in the big ring, no compacts, and with a malfunctioning pedal. What an animal. I tell him to get it out of the big ring as it’s frankly embarrassing. I mean, who rides around up Cat 1s in the big ring. Shocking. I suddenly feel very small in the world when confronted by all of this.

Wade sticks with me for a bit, until I wave him off.

I finally crest the top, already very uncomfortable. Discomfort is made all the worse by the fact people are spinning past me like I’m standing still.

This is an inauspicious start.

Ouch.

The gang is waiting, and we head off the back. Again, I drop like a stone, as we descend a long way down, and quick.

There are already people crashing on the descent. I am passing many people who had passed me on the way up.

10.30. The Soulor beckons.
We arrive at the bottom and are at the bottom for a mere few kilometres again until the road starts rising to the Col du Soulor.

I am quickly dropped by everyone and I know that’s it for me keeping up with the crew for the day. I whack my SMASHFEST iPod nano playlist on (think: Rise Against, Rage, Tool, Propagandhi, Pennywise etc) then settle in, zone out and try and concentrate on my heart.

All is going swimmingly thus far.

The scenery is spectacular. Given that my hopes of finishing top 500 have been smashed apart, I resign myself to my fate and resolve to enjoy the scenery and get photos and video.

Summit minus 3km, cramp strikes. Right hamstring twinges and pings without warning. I am hamstrung (ha-ha) by the roadside as cyclist after cyclist goes past, sympathy etched on their faces.

I battle on, very, very much conscious of the twinges now, as each time I ramp the speed up and start passing people, BOOM, twinge city, population me. It’s a psychological killer, knowing you have plenty of space left in the heart rate, but your body’s physiological state is so poor, you can’t take advantage of it.

I arrive at the peak, the crew had gone, so I was on my own. I stop for water, and to take the scenery in. Seriously, France has to be the equal-most (Australia equal #1) spectacular country I’ve been to (beats a Canadian winter or spring hands down, as well as NZ, from what I have seen thus far)

I again descended like a madman, keeping my legs loose.

I hit the bottom and barely have time to recollect my scattered senses into some resemblance of logical and rational thinking, when, again, we head uphill.

I grit my teeth and push on.

Approx 2.30PM, approx 20km to go. (Time is a bit loose here, given at this stage I swear there are Smurfs and Fraggles and even Big Bird on the road willing me on. )

We start the ascent into a valley which I’ll freely admit is spectacular. I am riding a nice tempo up the 5% gradient, and passing people. TWANG. My right adductor goes. I know now that I am in very deep trouble (for want of a better word, let’s say I am in deep sh!t). Once the adductor goes, it’s curtains. I have around 20km to go.

We pass through a valley replete with verdant forest, streams of fresh Pyrenean H2O, and with craggy peaks peering at us from distant places (places that I incidentally am pedalling to).

Some more riding and we hit the town at the base of the Tourmalet (Bareges I think?). Crowds line the street, and the road kicks cruelly but irrevocably, UP. My absolute horror climbs are ones where minimum tempo can be set, and/or which go up with no switchbacks or changes in scenery (e.g. Hotham or Alpe D’Huez I can rip up, it appears the Tourmalet, I can not).

Wade again catches me, and nurses me along for about 7km. Thanks Wade, you saved my bacon. Having someone there setting a pace pushed me a bit harder.

Approx 3.30PM, and around 10km to go.

Broken souls now begin to litter the roadside as the relentless grade starts to take victim after victim.

Yoda appears on the road. “Do or do not, there is no try, hmmm?” I have cramped several times and still have 10km to go.

Shut up, Yoda.

The cramps are increasing in intensity and frequency and I am becoming extremely frustrated and a bit distressed at having to stop so often and at being unable to ride. I’ve never experienced cramps before on a ride, or in a race, and it’s starting to get to me. I however resolve myself to the fact that this is to be my fate until the end, and that come hell or come high water, I am beating this mountain. Failure is not an option. They are carting me off in an ambo, or I am riding to the top, with no walking.

I continue on, and it’s now so hot (36 deg C on the Garmin) that I am passing onlookers who are heaping water from mountain streams onto everyone’s heads. Many people are at the Tourmalet for the tour stages in several days time. They are a big part of the tour, and, a big part of the Etape. My thanks goes to each and every spectator willing us on (no props to the Brits camped up about 7k from the top with a keg of beer – bastards!).

I come around the last bend before the final 4km ascent which winds its way ever so slowly up the summit. The worst part is you can see what’s ahead and it is not pretty. In fact, it’s incredibly ugly. 35 degrees centigrade. Hot, sticky roads. And an unforgiving road ascending into the high Pyreneees.

I happen upon Morgan, one of our crew, who has stopped due to heat exhaustion. The gendarme has called an ambulance, so I leave her my phone so we can call her later and keep going.

There are 4km to go. This will prove to be the toughest ride of my life thus far. It is at this point that thoughts of stopping and walking, or stopping altogether enter my mind.

This is my brain trying to convince me my body has had enough. I tell my brain that failure is not an option and press on. My brain quietens.

There are 3km to go.

I am starting to feel quite ill. I am having to ride in an extremely compromised manner to compensate for the cramps and it causing extreme stress on my body which is starting to break down (I’m looking at you, Mr Glute!).

There is evidence of people’s physical sickness on the road.

As the Hoff says, “this, is a mess.”

This is carnage.

There are 2km to go.

It is at this point my right adductor goes again, but, unlike the last cramps, I cannot relieve it. An older French spectator comes over, and asks if I have a cramp. He goes to work on my leg, rubbing it in a way I’d have thought would not be effective. Cramp gone.

I mount the bike and go.

I start reeling people in as my heart ramps up and my legs respond.

Snap, my right hamstring goes, a cruel 1km from the top. I ignore it, and resolve to a final kilometre up off the seat, pedalling like a straight-legged lunatic robot, mashing up the mountain.

There is 1km to go.

I am not stopping now, and force my muscles to do what I need to get me home. Things are desperate.

The cramp dissipates and I sit down and spin up into the last 100m, hundreds of people lining the road.

Approx 4.30PM. Le Sommet du Tourmalet.
My face takes on a stony, impassive look (think Menchov) as I limp over the line, a long, long, long way behind where I expected to be.

I finally arrive at the summit deep, deep in the red. A sense of relief and accomplishment washes over me. I’m incredibly, incredibly disappointed but with all that I’ve been through with my thyroid and heart, I’ll take it.

In any case, it’s excellent training for the Melbourne-Warnie >:)

I stop briefly to take in the magnificent vistas and bump into Wade who’s taking some happy snaps.

I roll down to La Mongie to collect my medal. I find the guys and word Matt (Morgan’s fiance – congrats guys for getting engaged on the trip, on the top of a Col no less) up on what’s happening.

“Guys, that was AWESOME, I can’t wait to do it next year.”

(Cruelly, the organisers put the food hall at the top of another small climb).

Stopped up for pizza at the bottom.

My thanks go out to the following people.

Kate F: you are amazing, and every guy should be so lucky.
Mike, Clarky, Matt, Morgan: for waiting for me and nursing me along.
Sdot: for the awesome team support, and driving us all home.
Wade: thanks for nursing me along Wade, you’re a gentleman and all-round nice guy.

In case you are interested, here are my Garmin stats.

The link is here.

Critically, I lost about 90 minutes of time due to cramps. 90 minutes. That time puts me in the top 1500, rather than 3200th or so.

Wrap up.
About 3000 people abandoned L’Etape (~30%), which shows you how hard it was.Many people including me were way, way under or illprepared. I’m torn between a sense of accomplishment for finishing it, and a huge sense of disappointment for the poor showing relative to last year (though it must be said, I was in peak physical condition last year).

I wouldn’t swap the experience for quits. If you love cycling, I honestly believe everyone should try L’Etape.

It’s almost impossible to describe the excitement of smashing through French village streets with thousands of people yelling “Allez! Allez! Bravo! C’est bien!”.

Do it, you’ll not regret it.

Tips

• Don’t fly in too close to L’Etape. Give yourself a week. Seriously. Planes are horribly dehydrating.
• Don’t fly via the States. Folly. We flew for 40 hours so we could get 2 x 23kg. Not worth it. Cheap is not always best.
• If you drink a lot of water, take loads of the right type of hydration on board, often (thanks for the tip Wade).
• Don’t go out too hard.

If all this strikes you as something you want to do, check out the Cycling Through France guide, which covers everything you need to know about planning a trip to France.

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