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Ended up spending Thursday night on Folsom lake which was pretty nice and went for what accidently turned into an expensive italian but filled up on the carbs which was good after our 110 mile day from hell. Next morning we got up and headed to heat 50 hoping to be able to take it all the way to Nevada. True to current form however this wasn't doable as bikes can't go on that road....after asking a handful of mexicans and a clueless Indian shop owner for help with no response but blank faces we decided to stand outside a gas station and ask more people for help. As it was 6am this proved difficult and it wasn't until 7am til we found someone who lived in placerbille and knew a back road route. This route consisted of some serious uphills and we met a nice oldman cyclist along the way who was going up the hills as quick as us. After s few hours we arrived in placerbille where disaster struck again. Tom had an fml moment where he ended up bending a cog in his front mech rendering his bike useless. So back downhill to placerbille we rolled to find a bike shop. The guys in placerbille bike shop were complete heroes and deserve a bigvthanjs for fixing the bike and giving us directions for the rest of the day. This is also wherever met a quirky bloke ned ted who tried ti cycle America in the seventies with just one change of clothes, a sleeping bag and a fishing rid! Sadly ted only made it half way across as he ran out of money but managed to do 118 miles a day. So we went on to pollock pines which was a 2000ft climb taking us to around 5000ft total climbknv for the day. From here we cycled down ti the south fork erocan river basin and camped rough alongside the river on a beachm, romantic! Today was hard but the scenery wad incredible and weln worth all those hours of pain......pictures to follow.