Posted
27/03/05
Hi!
Happy Easter.
What's interesting
in your life?
After 4500ish k gave the 'trike a birthday.
Bath, new tyres and chain.
Tyres now Continetal Top Touring 2000 37-406
forward, and Schwalbe City Jet 32-406 aft,
same as original.
All now at full pressure.
I had reduced the pressure because of vibration
induced coughing fits.
Again, I reckon that Flataway has saved
me from several punctures.
The left tyre was a real mess of holes and
cuts.
Two holes showed daylight, and would have
given extrusion punctures, but for the Flataway.
Chain just worn down by 1% as measured by
the clever little Park tool.
Rode round the 31 Churches last Tuesday.
My Easter Pilgrimage.
Less vibration with the bigger tyres.
121.23k 07:40:24 rolling, 15.84kph, 65.6
kph.
Slow, but it's a very stop start ride, and
fairly hilly.
Experimentally used a liquid food, PSP22.
Rode my March randonee yesterday, feeling
good and going well.
Home, Romsey, Fordingbridge, Wimborne, Sherborne,
Shaftesbury, Wimborne, Fordingbridge, Romsey,
home.
223.11, 12:52:05, 17.34, 61.6.
13:45 overall, 16.23.
Cool and mostly cloudy, but enough sun to
give a 'bent tan, (upper surface of arms
and legs).
Radio 4 lasted all the way to Sherborne,
and Wyrd Sisters ended as I came up the
hill to Chilworth Old Village.
(I had started Wyrd Sisters before)
R4 is unusual, I usually lose reception
about Blandford, and alternative frequencies
ain't.
PSP22 for fuel again, and a couple of Mars
Bars, bought to provide evidence.
Expensive, but good stuff, I reckon.
Rode all day with only pee and control stops,
no 'wall' at all.
Only discomfort was 'bent feet, and that
less severe on the 'trike than the 'bent.
Lots of smiles and friendly honks and waves.
Two people took a close interest in Sherborne,
accepted the handout, and had a seat.
My first ever 'get out of the way' honk
from a Landrover in a narrow lane.
Almost everyone else hung back until they
could pass comfortably.
A couple a bit late and wide, flashing lights
and honks and burnt rubber from oncoming
traffic.
I reckon that I'm a 'trikist.
The stability is well worth the relative
inefficiency and width.
Now for a better 'trike?
Seeya
Francois
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