April 10nd 2007
The news so far is that the tallbike is ready to roll! the brakes, transmission and tyres have all been replaced with new parts. The luggage rack has been fitted, I've bought my panniers and done lots of tweaking. At a rough guess the tallbike already weighs more that twice my mountain bike...
Until a few days ago, the longest ride I'd had was about 30 minutes on the tallbike, so on April fools day I set off with Roger on another tallbike and a few friends on normal bikes to see how a longer ride felt. 25 miles later I can report that apart from the saddle, which is seriously very bad, everything works really well. I managed to climb one of Leicester's most lung-busting hills without too much drama, negotiated some tricky junctions and even did a bit of off-roading.
I've yet to ride the bike with a fully-laden but I'm pretty confident I'll be comfortable on the trip once that saddle's sorted.
All I've got to do now is sort my ferry tickets out, find some accommodation in Dublin, work out what I'm going to bring, plan a route and an itinerary... And get fit!
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