6 December 2021 Previously- Showered. I sit down feeling better. Exhausted and happy. Hungry. It’s lunchtime and dinner time and almost breakfast. I peer out the window. Is that a tapas bar across the lane? I have eaten at tapas bars. I have never eaten in a tapas bar in Spain. We get changed. It…
Category: cycle
Arrivals
7 December 2021 “There’s a sort of jet lag where you travel to your own past” – Bill Waterson 2.30 am. My body thinks it’s lunchtime. I am awake. Shell is asleep. It could be Tuesday. It is. Jetlag. Scientists tell us how important sleep is. Time zones and international flights don’t care what scientists…
Custom Front Racks
25 November 2021 Email from Nua just now. Our bikes are complete and they are now working on the pannier racks. Discussing how we want to mount the rear duffle we found a picture of ‘low rider’ front racks. Lower centre of gravity but you lose the mounting option over the front wheel. We have…
Spec change
22 November 2021 We just heard from Nua, our bike builders. The original specified Gates stainless steel sprocket is holding up the job. We have opted for an aluminium replacement. Lighter, but not as long-lasting. I am not bothered. I would rather be in the saddle with a Gates aluminium sprocket than waiting for the…
Prologue
21st November 2021 After a single failure, the MSR Whisperlight works. The unleaded fuel in the bottle burned black and dirty but eventually a clean blue flame. Five years in Malaysia is drawing to a close. Crawling to the end. Pandemic, two years. What can you say, we all went through it, probably not Australia,…