Strangely the seatpost did fit after seeming too small so the nice Brooks saddle can be unwrapped, and we have a nice high stem. Now just awaiting the tricky handle bars with the brake levers and gear shift lever, and how to route the cables on this frame without lugs for cable ends.
Hmm. Nice idea. I wonder what this does:
These intrepid motorcycle travelers published a nice map of their journey to Ukraine on Spotwalla. It seems you can do it without one of those nice but expensive SPOT gadgets. It seems an iPhone would do but maybe it would cost a fortune in roaming charges.
I stumbled on this blog of things – mostly messages – people have found, picked up and posted. Some are really cute:
I think there are quite a few companies that print t-shirts from designs you can upload. I went for the first one that appeared called Streetshirts to see what my oblique banner would look like. I was pleased with the quality of the shirts and how the design came out. I’m not convinced I put them in the right places. (woops -image problem)
These two (an ‘antique’ t-shirt and a long-slieved shirt came to about £35.
I’ve been in Melbourne for 4 1/2 hours after 22 or so hours cramped in planes. What a strange space you get into, a mixture of tiredness, changing time zone, some airline wine, half tablets of some sleeping potion, snatched pieces of film on the back of other people’s seats, but also the disorientation of moving from routines and the familiar into a space where you have no room, no bed no home and no shower (yet)….
How strange to dream of African armies and of being a doctor a few days before seeing The Last King of Scotland. I had the dream, strangely, after seeing V for Vendetta on DVD.