Hi /g/, /n/ here. I am planning a bicycle tour through isolated

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help out a fellow autistic shut in

>>58310275
Honestly, since you have a dynamo, any settings to make the battery last longer wont matter too much.

The only thing you would really need a phone for is an emergency, so perhaps look around for a dedicated gps with an emergency button and see how much it costs.

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>>58310507
Yeah the battery isn't a huge deal i'll probably just get a like replacement ($10).

I just did 2 weeks with an old brick i left off the whole time for emergencies. Paper maps, asking directions and just crashing in the bush whenever i get tired was fun but i want to prepare for international travelling and GPS maps would be nice for non English speaking countries where i have to plan campsites ahead of time. A dedicated Garmin or something would be cool but this was free.

I'm mostly asking about what updates to do to the phone and any good maps software, before i start setting it up and have to backtrack and reformat later.

I'd maybe do a sat phone one day. Met a dude in the backcountry with one and it seemed pretty cool. I bet they're fucking expensive though.

>>58310275
Is that a custom frame?

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>>58310788
Nah, its a 2002 853 Gunnar Crosshairs 'cx' frame i got used for cheap. I just scraped most of the decals off with my library card and a hair drier.

If you're actually taking a "tour" you will pass by wall chargers constantly, you're not sleeping or what?
If you're on a road bike, you're on a road. 100% of the time that road will lead to electricity

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>going outside and doing normal things
You disgust me

>>58310929
white people get to a point where they have everything and living in a first world is boring

they then spend all thier money trying to live homlessly and making it sound like a hobby

op i wouldnt give a homeless man a dollar, and i wont give you advice, you contribute nothing to the world

>>58310980
Considering white people built modern society it's ok if some of them want to get away from it all.

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>>58310929
I like to ride at night when i have the road to myself, then just crash in the bush where ever when i get tired. In 2 weeks i only payed for 2 nights accommodation. One night on a strangers lawns. The rest was vagabonding, mostly in the bush, one night in this old abandoned hut i found. I'm heading to a remote mountain range for summer when my charger arrives from the US. I already have a dynamo hub running my headlight.

I had to waste money in a cafe and hangout for hours to charge my x1 every few days which sucked. I'm on a CX bike and often i'm not on a road.

>>58310946
This is not normal, everyone thinks it's crazy and impossible, and i spent the last 2 years as a shut in neet.

>>58311119
It's very normal and very common, which is why sleeping and charging your shot is the most widespread method of having power while riding
A dynamo will give you a shit load of drag, and likely get worse and worse each day it's used, which is why they're not popular for cross country tours
And don't bullshit me about mountain biking, having knobby tires doesn't mean you're going to be off road and off grid the entire time

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>>58310980
I try to be a benevolent force everywhere i go, but you're basically right.

The main reason I am friendly or talk to anyone is out of self interest to get offered shit or have people to watch my stuff.

It sure beats the neet life though

Get a fatass battery pack, strap it to your bike rack, and charge everything when you sleep or rest

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>>58311163
It's a top tier frictionless dynamo. Basically 2 races of electromagnets which spin each other. The drag is negligable and the internals of the hub are superior to any mid range non-dynamo offering. I don't notice it.

I didn't even mention mountain biking, but I ride a cyclocross frame, with very strong wheels, which is designed for racing on gravel, and i take it to very isolated places, often on tracks, not roads.

Dynamo hubs are extremely popular on cross country tours and i'm not inventing this shit, lots of people do it. In my country though, it's not normal at all.

I'm already self sufficient in terms of power, are you saying i should bin it all, stick to busy roads were i get passed by cars every 10 seconds and sleep in hotels every night?

>>58311270
Dynamo hubs have a history, but they're irrelevant now if you have access to power at least once a week, the drag is not negligible, it's not something you can "perfect" out of existence, each joule you're charging your battery with is a joule (or usually much more) lost in pedaling efficiency
I'm telling you, big battery, high amperage wall charger, once a week

>>58311270
>cyclocross is for racing on gravel
>has a steel frame road bike with aero bars, exposed cables and cantilever brakes
Yeeeeah bruh, life in the bush amirite

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This thread is extremely helpful for reminding me of the assholes and the bullshit i'm getting away from.

Y'all don't know shit.

>>58311351
This
OP don't forget spare cables and housings (or just fully house your cables right now), tools and brake pads in addition to the dozens of tubes I'm sure you already brought
In fact bring everything bike related you own, if you're away from civilization for that long you don't want anything forcing you to walk for 10 miles

dont. know. shit

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>Fresh out of high school European backpacking trip
>but with a $60 yard sale bike it's totally different and unique
>>>/out/

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>>58311395
Yeah everything I learned on my tours is pointless to you because you're in bumfuck nowhere, europe and have knobby tires
You're totally special and no other touring person can give you advice

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Personally I would get a portable battery cell instead of another battery for the phone. For firmware it depends if your device came preloaded with rubbish from your telecommunication provider, otherwise it should be as good as it can get battery wise unless you have useless hog apps running i.e kik, playstore, facebook and so on. I wouldn't upgrade android on it, older devices always suffer battery life issues with newer OS versions but for maps there's an offline version I forget the name of it but it also allows you to track where you've gone and download maps for regions/areas

>>58311499
GPS's made for this exact purpose usually last days if not weeks, and charge fairly fast

>>58311499
thanks

>>58311590
Yeah the guy telling you to not use your phone and to get a discrete battery doesn't know shit

>>58311609
yea

>>58311351
This, electricity is one issue but you can't just ignore mechanical problems
This is not a cyclocross bike, this is not for dirt, dust or snow, this is a steel frame road bike
Get disk brakes and fully housed wires

>>58311667
Why does split housing even exist?
Shirley it can't be because bike manufacturers wanted to save 2¢ on cable housing while spending 2¢ on extra mounts?

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you better shut your mouth

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I –

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>order fully charged battery to be delivered to your next stop via smartphone
That easy

>>58311685
to save weight and reduce friction

>>58311879
>save weight
Like 10 grams? It's maybe 3 feet less of housing. You could save more weight by leaving the candy bar at home
>reduce friction
But as soon as that bike hits dirt it's gonna have drastically worse friction, hell with fully housed cables you can just drop a drop of oil in them if it feels rough. Try doing that with split cables and you end up with cables full of unrepairable sludge if they aren't grinding full of rocks and dust already

>>58311916
And don't forget the 3 foot section of rust that eventually becomes your entire cable

>>58311916
Instead of treating myself to an inane argument, why don't you look this shit up and educate yourself?

I too enjoy having a few arbitrary nonsense opinions about stuff but i'm just suggesting a possible alternative.

>>58311395
You're the cause for your problems

>>58310275
>using a hipster modded race bike on hard terrain
fucking hipster yuros and their tour bullshit, bet you're german

>>58311969
I did, everything says that fully housed and split housed cables start off comparable, and split housing quickly becomes garbage while fully housed cables see less friction, wear, rust, and contaminants overall
Not to mention that any brakes and derailleurs made in the last 2 decades have more than enough tension to be completely fine through fully housed cables

>>58311879
I've never seen split housing on a high end bike of any kind

>>58312066
Oh yeah and the advantages said about split housing is you only have to replace half the housing if (when) it becomes shit, therefore not solving the problem and saving you 50¢!

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>>58312057
yes
>>58312058
you could not be more wrong

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>>58312090
She forgot her helmet how can she gofast?

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>>58312077
So you've never seen a pre 11 spd road bike?

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>>58312090
>THAT RUSTY CABLE

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>>58312119
if you notice the crashed fork u gay

>>58312126
Be he's not on a road bike, he's specifically said that he's riding constantly through dirt, sand and off road trails

>>58312119
That picture is 20 years old, they didn't have helmets then.

>>58312126
Last I checked things were still running on 9 speed, and again, never saw split cables on high end bikes
But then again high end bikes didn't mean standardized steel frames either

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>>58312119
Those things will never get old

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>>58312159
I didn't say that, but y'all seriously do not know shit with your full length cable disc brake nonsense bullshit holy fuck you're so fucking stupid.

To start with, good discs are hydros and they can't be easily repaired. They are for preformance bikes and in terms of durability and versatility they are inferior.

I run indexed Dura Ace downtube shifters which can operate friction mode with any mech and any cassette and are easily the most durable shifter available, but youre fucking bullshit nonsense lets run indexed STIS or whatever that only work with series parts and REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE fucking /g/ telling me anything suck my dick

>>58312267
But you don't have hydraulic disk brakes you have a $60 yard sale steel bike with exposed cable and cantilevers
I mean use them if you want but if you claim that it's an off-road bike you're gonna get ridiculed

get a vr headset and a kids bicycle racing game

>>58312267
>can operate friction mode with any derailleur
With that amount of grinding and contamination, I believe it
>hating on indexed derailleurs
It's almost like you bought this bike just to be different, nobody would buy a steel frame fixie bike and take it on dirt just to be hip would they?

>>58312203
from the 9 speed era literally every high quality road, touring, cx and most mtbs have split cables and you would very very hard pressed to find a 9 speed era frame of any material superior to a handmade US 853 item.

>>58312267
>hydraulic lines less durable than cables
No. Fucking no. Stop posting until you look this up.
>more versatile
Yeah because you can buy cables anywhere when your lines can and will break, on the other hand I've been running my hydraulic brakes for 11 years with only one bleed of maintenance, they still work like the day I got them. My cable disk brakes on the other hand constantly get loaded with crap and I've had to change the cables several times
And my one bike that still has cantilevers? Well I gave up on that bike as a whole long ago

>>58312329
Show me a single high end mountain bike with split cables from the last 10 years.
>inb4 Google "mountain bike with split cable housing"

>>58312291
these frames are over a thousand US new

>>58312312
I run indexed, they just have a friction mode

>>58312312
i built it up with shit i like cos i like it and i still like it so i don't give a shit about what you like man, you do you

>>58312367
Hipster confirmed
Enjoy your moneyless european backpacking trip on your steel frame shit bike
And don't forget to charge your battery

>>58312366
10 speed came in 2003, 14 years ago.

>>58312351
cos you don't ride and you don't bash your shit

>>58312380
I'm not from Europe you retard

I will enjoy it, thanks

>>58312367
>$1000 new
>steel frame, no dampening, no disk brake OR inline rim brake mount, no full cable housing mounts
Holy shit what Jew is trying to pull this?
This frame is absolutely not worth even a fraction of that
For the whole bike maybe but that's a fucking overpriced frame

>>58312383
And fully housed cables came along as soon as friction became a non-issue, which was long before that
And you've never used hydraulic lines, I guarantee that. You also are riding a fucking steel frame bike gloried as some kind of cx wannabe, clearly you have no idea what durability is or why it's inportant

>>58312383
They lasted for all the mountain biking I've done, all the freeride, all the resort fuckery, all the crashes, all the regional races I've done, AND the two road tours I've taken
Don't throw around lies like that, hydraulic lines are without question more durable than cables (and longer lasting too, because of no cables)

>>58312411
One of the best builders in the world. This is their budget line with tig welds instead of lugs (functionally equivalent). You'd pay 2300 for the top Waterford frameset. It's worth it. I got my gunnar frame used for $150. As i said, you don't know shit.

>>58312467
It's a steel frame bike, I could literally MIG weld one myself out of tubes and threaded bolts. The steel frame market has been abandoned a decade ago and the only companies left are preying on the hipster market. And don't worry, Ive also bought a "$800 brand new" steel frame from a yard sale, they're more of the same than any other bike material out there, weigh more, and the stiffness is completely wasted on your dirt trail adventure
You're that guy who buys brooks seats aren't you?

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>>58310275
>>58312506
>brooks seat

>>58310275
Looks like great fun. Congratulation on not being a shut in anymore.

Just remember you can't be a bicycle hobo forever. Eventually you'll need a real job.

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Your knowledge is very very limited and specific to the kind of riding you've done. I don't know how you got the impression you're some hot shit cycle master but the gaps in what you understand are gaping caverns and you are embarrassing yourself trying to teach me anything.

I already got a helpful answer to what i asked about and thanks to that guy, so you can just shut up now.

>>58312547
This
OP you clearly know what you're doing, why even make this thread asking for better battery life on your smartphone?

>>58312547
Well unfortunately my riding experience is 11 years of casual and professional racing, and the 2 tours I did that involved off road riding have nothing to do with your tour that involves off road riding
Shirley you're taking all this abrasive information to heart and not just dismissing it because it's mean and anything that doesn't praise you and your massive intelect should be cast away as "haters"
Right?
Isn't that the backpacker on a steel bike way of thinking?

>>58312570
eh a guy told me not to update android which i was gonna do so the thread was worth it, also shoot the shit a bit is fun lol

>>58312614
you do you my man

>>58310275
Get f-droid and install their build of OsmAnd for offline maps if you expect to be out of cell range, or just don't want to use data.

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>>58313142
cheers buddy i'll check it out

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>>58310275
>tfw I got that same brooks b17.

Don't forget to bring some proofide!

>>58310275
Btw maybe look at cycledroid,it just werkz for me.