Well Shinto is in the pitstop. He needs both wheels re truing a spoke replacing and brakes re setting. Can't move on until the job is done. Luckily I'm in a town with a bikeshop and ion good hands  because a wheel true is a tricky job.

Quake lake this afternoon

Shinto resting at quake lake info centre where I fell asleep. That hi vis triangle is a must have on these roads. It's also good for toeing to the tent at night so I don't wake up with some dipsticks rv on top of me. I got it at the aca in Missoula.

Never a truer word spoken. On the wall in the diner in Ennis Montana.

Virgins city montana

Riding through the madison river flood plain in the heat of the day I can understand how tough a life it must have been as a cowboy out here a few hundred years ago.

Well its proving harder to get to Yellowstone than I thought. The intense heat is stopping me riding except in early hours or in the evenings...which conflicts with getting a camp site and eating etc..so I'm. Eating main meal at lunchtime and trying to sleep.....but the biggest danger here tonight is not bears or rattlesnakes or truck drivers..or the heat..but country and western music blasted across campsites all bloody night long! Seems the local pastime here is getting drunk in a cowboy hat and listening to really bad country music all night before trying to remember how to drive a big truck through an alcoholic haze. Erg cowboys lol!

I here..I see lots of hills all around.

Bit of a shakey ride today

Fishing on the Madison river Montana this morning

There are so many really cool houses out here...I just snapped this one because it was for sale and a million miles away from people and people problems lol!

Well here I am in west Yellowstone after a mere 60 miles ..but they were tough miles. I was very tired because of the country music dorks last night. The head wind I have been riding against for several days continued and it was hot, although not as hot as yesterday. I got a huge hungar attack during the ride and eventually found a burger wagon at the side of the road and devoured a huge cheeseburger. I fell asleep on a bench outside quake lake info centre much to the amusement of the lady ranger. Just as I got to west Yellowstone the heavens opened just while I was trying to find a place to sleep. The town is a tourist trap and I advise cyclists to avoid it. I finally got a motel room for $80 which is a rip off but the previous five I asked all wanted well over a hundred! I was to tired to ride the twenty miles to the next campsite and wild camping here is a big no no. The entire place is geared for the r v driveres. Whilst looking for a room in the rain I hit a stupid high kerb and Shinto made a horrid noise...the front mudguard conections snapped right off and the computer sensor broke off. Crap. Finally I found a room and have managed to patch Shinto up myself. Tonight I have the tv on...although the old bat on reception said the room had WiFi its to far from the router and the signal is useless. I'm not fussed and to tired to go out again now. I'll sort it in the morning. Tonight is about sleep...in a bug free zone!! :).
I'm hoping the headwind will stop..its really been a feature of Montana so far. I have the most amazing cyclists suntan ever ha ha!
I plan to check out the town in the morning and take a short 20mile ride to the next camp site...that way I get to rest..wash..shop..eat..as my body is telling me it needs a pitstop.
I met to cyclists today riding east west..both were looking really exhausted and were asking about what they had ahead...I told them all the women in idaho and Oregon were big on cyclists and the beer was free to transammers...lol!

Must be a tough life for a fatarse trucker in an airconditioned cab cold drinks a bed...but montanas mountains even managed to make a truck look good somehow. It was over 100 f when I took that shot easy...I wonder how far he'd been today and how many cyclists he nearly killed so he could park up and sleep ;)

Quake lake

Here i am hiding from the mi day sub at quale Lake montana just a few Miles from west Yellowstone. The Lake was a river until an earthquake changed it to a Lake in the 50's. The ride from camp last night was against headwinds again and after Two hours sleep last night my legs felt like jelly for the first time this trip. The visitor centre here is full of loud fat people from r v 's complai.ing how tired they are because of the heat. I'm looki.g forward to Yellowstone park over the next few days. Looks beautiful and hilly lol!

Happiness is a roadsign like this lol!