Archive for April, 2007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
GPS Trace of Wales Training Weekend
Here it is in all it’s glory - I never get tired of these things! 500 miles in one weekend - can’t be bad.
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Back safe and sound
The bike is away, the flickr photos are being uploaded and I have a full Sunday roast in my Belly…. fantastic weekend, much learned, full report shortly.
Sorry about the strange characters in the posts whilst we were away - the photo update stuff seems to put them in - will get that fixed ASAP.
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
far too early
It’s 7am but time to pull myself together and get some breakfast on. We =
wont be making the same mistake as last time and leaving before we have =
some popper food and drink inside us. A little wet and cold this morning - =
let’s hope it brightens up.
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Long day
It’s been a stunning day. The weather has been perfect, the new tent is =
just right, and the food tonight was top notch. The icing on the cake has =
to be the wonderful camp site Patric found. Good night for now and see you =
all in the morning!
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Lunch stop
I’m not allowed to tell you where we have stopped, but suffice to say it’s =
a little red place. Burgers have been ordered and tea drunk. Very very nice =
weather more when we arrive in Wales
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
Rhino Protect Review
After waiting since February following my purchase of a profit kit from the Rhino Protect stand at this years London MCN show the day had come to travel to the fitting centre just north of Slough, although if I am honest I travelled over the night before and stayed with an old friend as I [...]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
April training run takes us (me) home.
Ready for the off - again - as we prepare for the April training run. We’re heading to Celyn Brithion back home in Wales.
It’s a beautiful spot right at the heart of a beautiful country (not that I’m biased). I’m really looking forward to the long corners and steep bends that the road up to [...]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Stunning Photography
We’re very luck here in Journey To Russia towers… we have a genius photographer with us. His name is Stace and he can’t half shake the right end of a lens around.
Here are some of the amazing shots he took of our Dartmoor run - he wasn’t even trying to take brilliant shots as we [...]
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
April Training Run - almost ready
We’ve chosen the location, we’ve bought new kit, and we’re ready for the off!
Well, almost. I still need to change my sprockets and chain, Stace needs to re-configure his luggage after buying a new 2 second tent with a smaller ‘wing factor’, and Patrick needs to ride-in and make sure his recent head bearing replacement [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Advice we should listen to
Picked this up over at motorcycleramblings.com - it’s advice from a book by Tim Cahill - which you should go buy immediately.
The following is an excerpt from Tim Cahill´s book Hold the Enlightenment. I would like to reproduce a good portion of it hear, assuming that he will not mind as long as I make [...]
