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MarnixSFC said:
With Honda blinkers?  (bolt)

Marnix
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I wasn?t aware of that. OK - it's not the end of the world though ...

What would be the correct ones? The usual CEV (I know that my 73 SF1 had CEVs and according to the 750er book, these were
also installed in the later 750s)? This should apply for the triples as well - or?



maurice turner said:
Hey Joe it wouldnt hurt to grind a little off those stop plates to let the centre stand come forward a bit more it looks like the stand is very vertical!!
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Hi Maurice, it works fine. I just need to take care not to park where the surface is slightly downhill ? this could indeed cause some
surprise ?


BTW: While TTW raced thousands of miles in Europe after the Breganze anniversary, my wife and I were not idle either, we crossed
the Alps back and forth by bicycle ...

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Cheers
Jo

 
one day I will buy a total rat of a bike and claim it is a 4-valve/cylinder 900 ccm SFC prototype, altered to street looking conditions of a SF(x) to experiment new technologies on the road. Just to cause some more gray hair on some folks and make the forum burst it's message capathity...  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
 
Bike touring sounds awesome Jo. Have done Sicily, Sardegna and the South of Italia with panniers. Pyrenees and Alpes on the road bike with day trips. And a weekend around the Swiss-Italian lakes.
Where was the pic taken? Lake or sea?
 
Quentin,
The picture was taken when we had our 1st glimpse on Lake Garda, which was our southern turning point.

We started near Oberammergau and went on the way there over the Fern- and Reschenpass. On the way back we took the
route via Brenner.


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My wife had support from a Yamaha e-motor, one of the few concepts which comes with a double crankset (36/48); with this 1:1
as shortest gear ratio can be achieved.



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And I took my good old 1994 Guylaine #steelisreal Randonneur.



More pics can be found here:
Via Claudia Augusta


It has always been a dream of mine, but that my wife liked it as much, was the icing on the cake ...
:) (bigthumb)



Your trips sounds much more awesome! How did you organize those? Did you fly to Europe with your bike and panniers?

Cheers
Jo
 
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Brilliant, Jo! The elec bike for the missus was the key I suspect.

Each of my three trips to Europe I have boxed my bike. A Miyata steel road racing bike with rear panniers the first time and Emily on he old Giant Sedona steel bike - my idea of 'climbing' gearing was a 42-52 chainring with a 12-25 cassette!

When I worked for Lonely Planet - travel guide publisher (nearly 12 years) I was commissioned to co-author their Cycling Italy guide and took my MTB-as-touring bike. Nice being paid to ride!

Lat trip was the lightweight carbon roadie for the Alpes and Pyrenees.

Oh, forgot that the last thing I did for Lonely Planet - before my job as a linguist became redundant - was ride for three weeks from Khartoum in Sudan, to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia as part of a 'recreational' LP relay in the Tour d'Afrique from Cairo to Capetown. Ethiopia is all about mountains and altitude - rarely dropped below 2000m for two weeks and peak at 3400m!

Sorry to everyone for the hijacked thread - should probably have done it via a PM!
 
Lonely planet.... that brings back memories, the yellow one was my bible when I first got to Asia, fantastic, then I realised it was way better to travel without it and just talk to people, we used to joke that there was nothing lonely about Asia.
Must have been a great gig working for them though, I had a guest house in BKK which we thought would be good to get into LP but it never made it.
Good times indeed.

Thread hijack complete :)
 
TC said:
Thread hijack complete :)
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No not quite Tom.
I had a girlfriend that was the Proof Reader for The Winning Post (Paper Betting Guide), and had a second job behind bar of a wine bar in Richmond.
Four years of Uni .............. will take you places!

Hey TTW, further to our O.T. discussion, there's unrest in West PNG at the moment ............. guess who drew the sort straw to go there? FFS  >:(

Sorry Joe, carry on, as you were. :D

 
You guys on the push bikes must have callouses on your backsides.

I wouldn't mind getting my pushie out for a trundle around, but weather has been abominable. It's cold, and blowing about 40kts with rain squalls at the moment.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
Brilliant, Jo! The elec bike for the missus was the key I suspect.

Each of my three trips to Europe I have boxed my bike. A Miyata steel road racing bike with rear panniers the first time and Emily on he old Giant Sedona steel bike - my idea of 'climbing' gearing was a 42-52 chainring with a 12-25 cassette!

When I worked for Lonely Planet - travel guide publisher (nearly 12 years) I was commissioned to co-author their Cycling Italy guide and took my MTB-as-touring bike. Nice being paid to ride!

Lat trip was the lightweight carbon roadie for the Alpes and Pyrenees.

Oh, forgot that the last thing I did for Lonely Planet - before my job as a linguist became redundant - was ride for three weeks from Khartoum in Sudan, to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia as part of a 'recreational' LP relay in the Tour d'Afrique from Cairo to Capetown. Ethiopia is all about mountains and altitude - rarely dropped below 2000m for two weeks and peak at 3400m!

Sorry to everyone for the hijacked thread - should probably have done it via a PM!
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Wow, that's quite a background! And respect, with a 42/25 ratio I actually wouldn?t have managed the passes!

I used to have a neighbour who did the Silk Road and Alaska - Tierra del Fuego with such a bicycle. I would not be able to come up with
such ideas today ...

At the current alp crossing, we didn?t know how my wife's knee would cope with the many climbs (a previous sports injury quickly set limits
here for her). But since she?s using the e-bike now it didn?t occur anymore, apparently the support was enough to keep the stress below the
critical value.


And nobody did kidnap the post - I started and asked for it!
(bigthumb)



Dellortoman said:
You guys on the push bikes must have callouses on your backsides.

I wouldn't mind getting my pushie out for a trundle around, but weather has been abominable. It's cold, and blowing about 40kts with rain squalls at the moment.
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No issue at all! In former times one smeared milking fat into the butt crack, today I can do without it ...
8)

Cheers
Jo
 
I use lanolin - swear by it. After an Audax one-day ride, 320km and 6000m of climbing, 15 hours in the saddle, not even a hint of chaffing. You MUST wear cycling nicks tho. Some people disguise the chamois pad under pseudo baggy shorts  :D

Yes, LP was a great place to work, even though my day gig was behind a desk working with about 185 languages, translators, transliteration systems, computer script generation (how do you produce a Mongolian Phrasebook???!!) ... and all that kinda stuff! Agree about discovering the world for yourself, but access to info about transport (if nothing else) was worth the weight of the books.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
I use lanolin - swear by it. After an Audax one-day ride, 320km and 6000m of climbing, 15 hours in the saddle, not even a hint of chaffing. You MUST wear cycling nicks tho. Some people disguise the chamois pad under pseudo baggy shorts  :D

Yes, LP was a great place to work, even though my day gig was behind a desk working with about 185 languages, translators, transliteration systems, computer script generation (how do you produce a Mongolian Phrasebook???!!) ... and all that kinda stuff! Agree about discovering the world for yourself, but access to info about transport (if nothing else) was worth the weight of the books.
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I used std. functional clothes, probably I didn't want to be confused with one of those MAMILs ...
:D  8)
 
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