Stupidity is finally rewarded I have been marvelling for a while at how amazing my tyre are and how wonderfully they have been performing with all of New Zealand (3200 Miles) without a single puncture. Had I paid more attention at the condition of the tyre and spent less time marvelling at their performance I…
Category: Equipment
Everything fits
Or so it seams. I am just a bit concerned that I might be forgetting something major. Only two days to go now and the main attention is to the weather forecast. I am sure my light summer sleeping bag will be fine in the driving rain and polar temperatures of the lake district in…
Twenty days or so to go
We’re finally here, or to be more precise we will be here in three or for weeks maximum. The bike is serviced, the flat is nearly empty and ready to rent, the motorbike is sold and soon the car will be too. There are still a few boxes laying around and they’ll be soon enough…
Accommodation and food
Another day another post, after medical and technology it’s now time to look at the basic of life: eat and sleep. Accommodation With an eye on the stats and reports produced by fellow riders it looks like my time will be equally divided between camping and hostel/hotel/hosted accommodation. While hosting will be mainly existing expat…
Travel technology
As much for my own sanity as for the benefit of the readers here is a list of the planned packing in the technology area. Hardware My Nexus 4 mobile phone will be taking all the SIM card I’ll be finding along the way hopefully providing me with internet in between WIFI enabled sites. I was considering…
Thinking medical
The time has come to start getting serious about the packing and today is medical. First Aid Kit After a bit of reading and trawling trough discussion forums I have decided to go for a safe, comprehensive, but not silly complement of stuff. I started with getting the very conveniently priced (£19.99 on eBay) CarePlus®…
Purchasing the bike
So here we go, eBay to the rescue and the bike is purchased. Collected from a nice chap in Cambridge that had used for a cross-UK charity run and that told me it had seen some European travel before getting to him. So far I’ve replaced the rear rack and changed the pedals (though I…