Best of Pedalshift 067: Stoves, intermittent fasting and keeping feet warm

A classic hodgepodge best of! Bike touring stove tests, an overview on intermittent fasting, counterintuitive advice on keeping your feet warm on tour and more!
Originally podcast January 19, 2017

Best of Pedalshift 067: Stoves, intermittent fasting and keeping feet warm

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December 29, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 308: 2022 Holiday Spectacular

This has been a fantastic year for bicycle travel, and so the holiday spectacular is here once again to wrap up the top episodes, take a look back on all of the tours and adventures and assess each and every goal I set for myself for 2022. Happy New Year!

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2022 Holiday Spectacular

Top Episodes

292: Touring Bike Essentials

290: Beginner Mistakes

295: Making Your Tent Stealthier

294: Minimalist Packing for a Credit Card Tour

280: The Missing Link – Part 1

286: Bicycling New York City

288: A Late Start on the C&O

Best of Pedalshift 099: Bicycle Tour Food

297: Empire State Trail Preview

A look back on the tours

Florida

California

C&O

New York

A look back on my 2022 goals

At least one new-to-me route

Check – not fully new, but hit new sections of SoCal and NYS

Fitness: lose the 2021 weight and keep it off

Nope. Full fail.

Revisit a route (or portion of one) I’ve only done once

Check!

Think about a remote work-tour option (work-ride-work-ride… something else?)

Partial credit. I did think about this, but touring options were limited this year.

Continue to improve my stealth camping skills

Partial credit. I put a lot of thought and improved my gear, but didn’t pull off the stealth camping I wanted to this year.

Repair or replace worn gear

Check! Replaced a number of worn and not repairable things like sleeping pad, duffel bag and more.

Organize bike touring equipment and improve storage

Check! Reorg of my cabin storage this week at the cabin and that will flow into the stuff I keep in DC.

Episode 300/Millionth download celebration

Check! We did the live show and properly celebrated together for the millionth DL.

As always we like to close out the show with a special shoutout to the Pedalshift Society! Because of support from listeners like you, Pedalshift is a weekly bicycle touring podcast with a global community, expanding into live shows and covering new tours like this summer’s upcoming bike tour! If you like what you hear, you can support the show for 5 bucks, 2 bucks or even a buck a month. And there’s one-shot and annual options if you’re not into the small monthly thing. Check it all out at pedalshift.net/society.

Kimberly Wilson
Caleb Jenkinson
Cameron Lien
Andrew MacGregor
Michael Hart
Keith Nagel
Brock Dittus
Thomas Skadow
Marco Lo
Terrance Manson
Harry Telgadas
Chris Barron
Mark Van Raam
Brad Hipwell
Mr. T
Nathan Poulton
Stephen Dickerson
Vince LoGreco
Cody Floerchinger
Tom Benenati
Greg Braithwaite
Sandy Pizzio
Jeff Muster
Seth Pollack
Joseph Quinn
Drue Porter
Byron Paterson
Joachim Raber
Ray Jackson
Jeff Frey
Kenny Mikey
Lisa Hart
John Denkler
Steve Hankel
Miguel Quinones
Alejandro Avilés-Reyes
Keith Spangler
Greg Towner
Dan Gebhart, RIP
Jody Dzuranin
Lucas Barwick
Michael Baker
Brian Bechtol
Reinhart Bigl
Greg Middlemis
Connie Moore
William Gothmann
Brian Benton
Joan Churchill
Mike Bender
Rick Weinberg
Billy Crafton
Gary Matushak
Greg L’Etoile-Lopes
James Sloan
Jonathan Dillard
John Funk
Tom Bilcze
Ronald Piroli
Dave Roll
Brian Hafner
Misha LeBlanc
Ari Messinger
David Gratke
Todd Groesbeck
Wally Estrella
Sue Reinert
John Leko
Stephen Granata
Phillip Mueller
Robert Lackey
Dominic Carol
Jacqi McCulloch
John Hickman
Carl Presseault
David Neves
Patty Louise
Terry Fitzgerald
Peter Steinmetz
Timothy Fitzpatrick
Michael Liszewski
Hank O’Donnell
David Zanoni
David Weil
Matthew Sponseller
Chad Reno
Spartan Dale
Carolyn Ferguson
Peggy Littlefield
Lauren Allansmith
Eric Burns
Thomas Pearl
Darrin McKibben
Richard Stewart
Dave Fletcher
Jack Smith
Luke Parkinson
Ryan Patterson
Cyrus Farivar
John Gardiner
Sam Scruggs

Music

You’ve been hearing about Jason Kent and his music for many fine episodes. Jason has a new track available NOW, and a new album dropping very soon AND Jason’s first solo album is now streaming on Spotify, including America, the Pedalshift theme. Go listen!

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December 22, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 307: Empire State Trail – Day 7 + Takeaways

Looming storms, transportation question marks, and some subtle messages from a ligament in my knee all pointed to one thing… this phase of the tour was coming to a conclusion. But one more bit of adventure awaited to share with you. Plus, takeaways!

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Empire State Trail – Day 7

Statistics

Miles biked 8

Airports traversed 2 (including returning the car)

Minutes of ride recorded 0

Flats 0

Takeaways

1 – The Empire State Trail is truly one of the great routes in the US.

2 – Thank you local bike shops for swooping in to save the day

3 – Thank you trail towns that provide such great amenities

4 – Airports… I continue to love riding to or from them directly!

5 – I hate calling tours early, but I’m so glad I get to ride what I can

6 – When you deviate from routes, make sure to pay attention to what side of rivers you ride and where you’re going to (relying on bridges)

7 – Keep your electronics dry even if they can get a little wet

8 – Find your edge

Music

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December 15, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 305: Empire State Trail – Day 6 – Part 2

Continuing the journey to Troy, NY and the completion of the Erie Canal portion of the Empire State Trail… the hills of the capital region of NY kick in, but the finish line beckons with a roof and a dry overnight.

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Empire State Trail – Day 6

Audio update for day 6… my phone was still recovering from its dousing on days 4 and 5, so audio quality takes a hit late in the day 6 shows. Howly winds in some segments but totally listenable if not up to snuff by my usual standards!

Statistics

Miles biked 66.9 miles

Steepest climb 9.6%

Steepest descent -16.5%

Unnecessary flashy lights pointed at my eyes 5

Canal trails completed 1

Flats zero

Music

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December 8, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 305: Empire State Trail – Day 6 – Part 1

Day 6 finally brought some dry sunny weather, and some new-to-me portions of the trail. In part one, we say farewell to Fort Plain’s peacock and try to avoid getting lost in Canajoharie on the way to Troy.

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Quick sidebar before we get started on Day 6… for those of you who listened to last week’s best of regarding the Eastern Express, Frank’s website is indeed retired so his old cue sheets are only out there if you downloaded them back in the day. His route is a combination of current ACA routes and FOTS Preston Paige Piper checked in with the ACA for the details:

In order to ride Frank Moritz’ original entire Eastern Express Route, you’ll have to use a combination of our TransAmerica Trail, Eastern Express Connector, and Chicago to New York City routes. The combo of these 3 routes follow Frank’s original route with a few deviations that we decided to make when we took over the route.

The deviations are likely for the better… as Frank mentioned in our chat the route was a beta and he got a bunch of local help tweaking it, and now ACA has it in their system and updates as conditions warrant.

Empire State Trail – Day 6

Audio update for day 6… my phone was still recovering from its dousing on days 4 and 5, so audio quality takes a hit late in this show (part 1) and early in next week’s part 2. Howly winds in some segments but totally listenable if not up to snuff by my usual standards!

Statistics
Coming next episode

Music

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December 1, 2022

Best of Pedalshift 079: The Origins of the Eastern Express Connector

Adventure Cycling Association’s Eastern Express Connector was developed by the legendary Frank Moritz as an alternative eastern spur for the Trans Am route, starting in DC. It includes the C&O, the GAP and Katy trails, bypassing some of the more challenging (in a not so good way) portions of the original Trans Am. In this best of, we chat with Frank right around the launch and get an idea on what it takes to make a new bike touring route!
Originally podcast May 11, 2017.

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November 24, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 304: Empire State Trail – Day 5 – Part 2

Day 5 was supposed to be the chill easy day… no long miles, no massive rain storms. Or at least that’s what I thought. A special holiday week in the US deserves a holiday two-parter for our fifth day of the Empire State Trail. This is Part 2 – Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Empire State Trail – Day 5

Programming note… we have a fantastic best of next week featuring a chat with Frank Moritz on his original Eastern Express route he built five years ago that is now a full fledged Adventure Cycling Association route (the Eastern Express Connector). A week or so ago they gave him a shout out on their Twitter feed, so I thought it’s a good time to revisit our conversation… check that out next week.

ALSO… I’m looking for audience participation for this year’s Pedalshift End of the Year Holiday Spectacular awards program. This year we have a listener’s choice for best episode – email your choice of any episode from 269-306 before Midnight eastern time December 25th – pedalshift@pedalshift.net!

The wet phone situation from Day 4 makes for some less than stellar audio at times here and there… all still listenable but if you think it sounds like I’m talking inside a wet paper bag sometimes, it is not just you.

Statistics

Miles Biked – 63.5

Maximum Grade 5.4%

Max speed 24.9mph!

Calories burned 2467

Calories consumed like 4000

Loose exotic bird encounters 1

Flats 0

Music

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November 17, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 303: Empire State Trail – Day 5 – Part 1

The Pedalshift Project 303: Empire State Trail - Day 5 - Part 1

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Empire State Trail – Day 5

Statistics

Coming next week!

Music

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November 10, 2022

The Pedalshift Project 302: Empire State Trail – Day 4

Day 4 suggested to be a true test of wills on the Empire State Trail. Not only was this a longer-than-usual mileage day through central New York, but heavy rains made for a race to Syracuse and beyond. Would I need to rely on a fast forward, or could I bang out the miles to my hotel oasis on the other side?

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Empire State Trail – Day 4

Statistics

Miles biked 72.8

Skunks 1

Skunk sprayings 0

“My Dude”s yelled at oblivious operator of a motor vehicle 2

Slices of pizza eaten at the Varsity (go Orange) 2

Number of gas station napkins needed to dry my screen enough to use 4

Crossings of Erie Boulevard in the driving rain 1

Number of times I had to rely on 29 year old memories of Syracuse geography because my phone was too wet to use 3

Labatt Blue’s carried 1

Labatt Blue’s consumed in a La Quinta Inn while watch the Bills win 1

Flats 0

Music

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November 3, 2022

Best of Pedalshift 191: The First Pedalshift Bike Touring Draft

A throwback to pre-COVID times with one of the pods from the month of MJ – the very first Pedalshift Bicycle Tour Draft! I explain the rules at the top, and we kind of make it up as we go along, but the essence is each of us chooses pieces of gear or other elements of a bike tour that the other person now cannot choose, and then you get to choose who wins.
Originally podcast January 16, 2020.

Best of Pedalshift 191: The First Pedalshift Bike Touring Draft

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