A new seat has arrived. The old one is a triangularish shaped bit of metal plate with foam cover and some kind of vinyl/leather on top of that. So...to the new seat. The metal plate is replaced by 14 long springs and 7 short ones which provide a bit more bounce as well as more forgiving to anatomical shape. I ordered it in Grandissimo Fatarse size which should fit....all that's left to do is install it.
Update 17th Feb '08 - the new seat was replaced in turn by a foam filled dual seat. This one is waaay to hard and the sprung saddle will go back on it. Lets put it this way, I thought I'd ridden over a small tree on the road only to find it was a toothpick!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Monday, May 7, 2007
First steps to Enfielding
Here is where the bloggy bits start for the Enfield.hk site.
This blog will be used as an easy way to log my movements whilst on the actual trip. What trip?? The one where I start off from Vladivostok and make my way across Russia all the way to St. Petersberg and then head south to Europe through Belarus (want to see the factory where they make The Minsk) and then Poland (want to see the factory where they make Bison Grass Vodka...a rather nice tipple!) and then to the Czech Republic (want to see the place where part of my genes come from; although I have been there before but it will be nice to go again) and then to Germany (want to see the BMW motorcycle factory so I can take the piss out of their high-tech machinery) and then to France (want to see some friends who moved there a couple of years ago as well as visit Sword Beach where my dad landed in 1944) and then across the English Channel to UK where I will end the trip in Durness as a symbolic end-of-land-kind-of-thing but actually Edinburgh will be the end proper.
That's it. All the why's and other technical stuff etc will be on the site proper www.enfield.hk but as things are quite far away from happening there won't be too much on this blogger site. This is mainly going to be reserved for positional updates and other stuff like that as I go along on the road.
The bike? An Indian made Royal Enfield Bullet 500cc which was made in 2001 but looks like it stepped out of 1960...it only has a kick start, reliable but sweaty in HK's summer heat.
This blog will be used as an easy way to log my movements whilst on the actual trip. What trip?? The one where I start off from Vladivostok and make my way across Russia all the way to St. Petersberg and then head south to Europe through Belarus (want to see the factory where they make The Minsk) and then Poland (want to see the factory where they make Bison Grass Vodka...a rather nice tipple!) and then to the Czech Republic (want to see the place where part of my genes come from; although I have been there before but it will be nice to go again) and then to Germany (want to see the BMW motorcycle factory so I can take the piss out of their high-tech machinery) and then to France (want to see some friends who moved there a couple of years ago as well as visit Sword Beach where my dad landed in 1944) and then across the English Channel to UK where I will end the trip in Durness as a symbolic end-of-land-kind-of-thing but actually Edinburgh will be the end proper.
That's it. All the why's and other technical stuff etc will be on the site proper www.enfield.hk but as things are quite far away from happening there won't be too much on this blogger site. This is mainly going to be reserved for positional updates and other stuff like that as I go along on the road.
The bike? An Indian made Royal Enfield Bullet 500cc which was made in 2001 but looks like it stepped out of 1960...it only has a kick start, reliable but sweaty in HK's summer heat.
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