We just bought the tickets to a Prudhoe Bay Alaska! We’ll be leaving San Francisco on the evening of June 19th with our bikes boxed as checked baggage. We’ll arrive in Prudhoe Bay on the morning of the 20th. We’ll re-build our bikes, take a tour up through the oil fields to take a dip in the Arctic Ocean, buy last minute supplies and then start our journey, so that we can camp the night a little ways outside of Deadhorse, along the Dalton Highway
Here is the front and back of the cards we’ll be handing out to people before and during the trip!
After over a week of cleaning, rebuilding and replacing worn out parts, both bikes are good as new and we’re ready to start training! In 2012 we trained 2,400 miles before the 3,700 trip. This trip is a little shorter but it starts out with the Dalton Highway, a tough gravel road, and to prepare for that we need to train at least 2,000 miles before the trip. For more about the 2012 trip click here.
We got our first sponsor today! Sunshine Bicycles is giving us 15% off because of what we are doing. We got most of our spare parts there in 2012 and we’re definitely getting them there this time too.
A few minutes after midnight Janos made the decision to go through the trip. So it’s official, we are going on that adventure this summer!
Here is the basic route of our trip. It is about 3,500 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to San Francisco. It takes the Dalton Highway, the Alaska Highway and the Pacific Coast Highway. We might make a slight detour to Crater Lake in Oregon
Today we started thinking about biking in Alaska. We both really enjoyed biking in 2012 and it’s something we both wanted to do again. Janos still needs some time to make a final decision about it
