02/02/2008 by admin.
Another week has gone by and we have sorted a cpl of bikes out,
Although we have searched the country high and wide and fed up of signing into e-bay!! we have found Barrie a great little bike on our doorstep, John Mills a local bike dealer has come up trumps, so finally got to ride the infamous stepthrough tonight and was pleasantly surprised, may have a different view after 2500miles!!
Get to pick up the other bike tomorrow, delivered from a scrap yard in Heathrow, mate Nige has found and picked it up for us, travelled to France whilst in the area for wine spent over twelve hrs in the mouth of the Dover dock in gale force 12!! slept in the car with a wooly hat on his feet, and taken into customs don’t ask what for but no wasn’t for excess wine and tobacco import The plot thickens!
Colwyn of precision bikes has offered his services, be it in parts or work so big thank you to you.
Nick our third team member has been busy this week mapping our route in more detail and looking at possible camp sites for our overnight stops. Plans for our backup vehicle seem to be up in the air at the moment, can’t decide on the cost of using a camper van kindly offered to us by a friend Arwyn who’s son Shaun rides a mean motocross in local competitions, a use of a car which would be cheaper on petrol or the favorite at the moment is to just loading up the bikes and do it without any support vehicle at all.
All in all a pretty busy week, had packs delivered from MND for sponsorship, Crossroads been busy chatting on the phone with Barrie,
Bottom Line there’s no turning back!!