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Central Australia is an awe inspiring region. Difficult to tackle on a bicycle but possible. The arrival of winter has opened up a window of opportunity for some serious back-country epics but water is a limiting factor. Any off road touring mission is restricted in distance by how much water you can carry. I’ve been scanning the internet for\u00a0cargo solutions to increase my bikes water carrying capacity. The 16′ wheel\u00a0of the Bob trailer<\/a>\u00a0is too small to handle the soft conditions, the two wheeled Y-Frame trailer<\/a> is too wide for singletrack (and the 20′\u00a0wheels again are too small), but I think I’ve found a solution.. the Extrawheel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyway, I’ve kinda steered away from where I was headed with this post.. I’m not trying to endorse any products or write an advert, instead\u00a0I wanted to\u00a0link up some amazing sites I came across during my search.<\/p>\n The first inspiring site I came across was ‘Salt<\/a>‘.\u00a0Salt is\u00a0a movie produced by Cinematographer, Murray Fredericks who annually rides across the salt pan of Lake Eyre on his Surly Pugsly to capture some of the most beautiful landscape\u00a0images you’ll ever see. Do yourselves a favour and watch the movie trailer.\u00a0Liam and Mischa, I think you two will especially appreciate the the work undertaken in capturing these frames. Unbelieveable.<\/p>\n The ‘Canning Stock Route Adventure’<\/a>\u00a0also inspired. The trip undertaken by this Polish\u00a0cyclist\u00a0crosses landscapes similar to what I face out here. The images on this site are captured with\u00a0all the skill of your Grandma with a point and shoot\u00a0camera but they\u00a0still rock my world. \u00a0This boy also drags an Extrawheel trailer along with him for the ride.<\/p>\n The final site is ‘bikepacking.net’<\/a>. This site is dedicated to overnight and multiday offroad adventures (mainly in the US). I spent hours pouring over images of remote trails and high mountain singletrack. So fkn inspiring!<\/p>\n Now, who wants to load up the bike and come for a ride?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Central Australia is an awe inspiring region. Difficult to tackle on a bicycle but possible. The arrival of winter has opened up a window of opportunity for some serious back-country epics but water is a limiting factor. Any off road touring mission is restricted in distance by how much water you can carry. I’ve been … Continue reading “Salt and other inspiration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}