We're leaving for the airport in an about an hour and a half. Nearly everything is packed, but there remains a lot to be in done. In particular, the Geek On A Bicycle site isn't quite finished yet!
If you're on Twitter, besides following myself, you might also consider following TDA Live, which is the official Twitter account of the Tour D'Afrique.
Goodbye from London and speak to you next from sunny Egypt!
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While I'm away cycling, it's likely I'm not going to be very well connected at all and as such, my good friend Phil is going to act as my 'tech support'.
If the site breaks, feel free to drop an email to webmaster at geekonabicycle dot co dot uk and one of us will pick it up.
Phil is also responsible for the build of Calamity Jane (the bike I'm taking to Africa) - helping massively with component choice and pretty much building most of it! He'll be posting from time to time as well.
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To astute observers, you will notice this post has been given a fancy new tag 'goab'. To those of you reading this on geekonabicycle.co.uk, you will probably wonder what I am referring to.
This is, essentially, the first post for my new website, Geek On A Bicycle. To those of you reading this on hypedark.co.uk, you will probably wonder how it ended up here.
To explain - both sites share the back end database since it would be far too much effort to post things twice. However, Geek on a Bicycle (GoaB from now on) will only show a subset of all posts on Hype Dark.
Primarily this website (and blog, as I am loathe to call it) on geekonabicycle.co.uk is here to document my journey with the Tour D'Afrique 2010 as we travel from Cairo to Cape Town by bicycle.
This is a journey of nearly 12,000 kilometres and will see us pass through ten African countries. More details can be found on the route page.
Most of the rest of this site is self explanatory. As a career Computer Scientist, and someone who likes to be deliberately different, I couldn't bear to use a customised Wordpress site, so this is hand built (just like my bicycle - more details on the equipment page). As such, it is likely to be prone to breakage (hopefully not like my bicycle), in which case you may contact the webmaster who will be connected and able to fix things.
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy reading my updates - please add the site feed to your feedreader / browser or check back regularly!
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