Sedaohr is Rhoades, backwards. It's my surname, running in the wrong direction, which felt appropriate for a site about ignoring the obvious route, carrying less than everyone tells you to, and generally doing things in a way that makes conventional cyclists quietly uncomfortable.
On paper, this site is a raw data repository for lightweight long distance cycle touring. In practice, it’s a running ledger of what happens when obsessive spreadsheet logic meets a quid-a-mile reality.
It exists for two reasons:
- The Post-Mortems: To deconstruct past tours across France and Spain, figuring out which kit punched above its weight, what broke, and how to systematically eliminate the daily faff.
- The Long Game: To track the gear, training, and penny-pinching required for a five-year runway toward a lap of the planet.
Everything here is filtered through the lens of weight reduction, mechanical reliability, and basic sanity. Lightweight theory is brilliant right up until you’re sitting in a French bus shelter in the rain, or realising your "calculated nutrition plan" is actually just shovelling carbs into your face behind a supermarket. If a piece of kit doesn’t contribute to forward momentum, safe navigation, or a dry night's sleep, it gets left behind.
No affiliate links. Just the gear, the numbers, and the reality of the road.
