Month: May 2020
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 2
Monday, June 17 The second day brought us a fresh start and — after a bit of excitement on the A30 again out of Three Burrows — our first of several flats. Retyn, Newquay While I was fixing the flat, a gent about our age — but far fitter — whizzed past us in the…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 1
Sunday, June 16 The first bit of riding was actually in London, about 10km from our bunk at the house of FLJ’s sister to Paddington Station, starting out at 7:20 a.m. Paddington Station At Paddington we loaded the bikes on a train bound for Penzance. And it got us there … eventually. Land’s End After…
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Lejog pictures and places
Our Land’s End to John o’ Groats ride in June 2019 was a two-week adventure (well, eight days for me) that took some time to digest. Back in December I spent some time with Google Maps pinning down some of the locations of photos — as well as some happenings that we didn’t have photos…
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Dionysus Debut
We had beautiful weather today for the debut of Dionysus, née Ol’ Paint, born from Zeus’s thigh. For the first ride I didn’t want anything too challenging, nor did I want to stray far from civilization (in case of mechanicals), and so I chose my standard Tokyo Landmarks route. And I’m happy to say that…
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That’s me happy
Some last-minute touches for the bike this afternoon. I had a spare mount for the Garmin GPS, so I installed that. (I may not need the out-front mount that I’ve got on order which won’t arrive for another week.) And I put on the lights again after having charged them up last night. I was…
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She’s ready
I had two orders of business today: cut the seatpost down to size and add lights and a bell. Before cutting the seatpost I wanted to get a good idea what the minimum would be that I would need to remove. So I had a look at some photos of Ol’ Paint before the project…
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Reassembly: Day 2
I spent just a bit of time yesterday on the reassembly. It was cold, windy and rainy, so I didn’t want to tackle some of larger outstanding items. As I didn’t accomplish enough to write up a separate post, this is Day 2. I found the missing spacer for the handlebar stem and installed that,…
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Reassembly: Day 1
The Halfakid came by today, a rainy and chilly day at the Workshop in the Sky, and together we got most of the reassembly done on Ol’ Paint following her recent repaint job. Before the Halfakid’s arrival, I spent some time in a final truing of the wheels, after which I attempted to mount the…
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Ol’ Paint no more
With the renewed rusting of the clean frame and the coming of the rainy season on the horizon, I was finally spurred to action yesterday. I gathered up all my supplies and carried the workstand from home to the workshop, and arranged for the Halfakid to join me there. I took a few minutes working…