For the last couple of weeks, Andreas and I have been planning our route in more detail. As this is going to be a tour with little baggage, it was important to find places to stay with a (hopefully comfortable) bed or two, and the offer of dinner and breakfast. We started by looking at …
I arrived home to a huge delivery by Parcelforce. A somewhat tense moment when I noticed the damaged box with the third brake lever peeping out at me. Luckily, the damage was only to the packaging, so I assembled the black and green touring machine in very little time. (This blog post mostly to test …
Our next shopping destination was JD Tandems in Gargrave, North Yorkshire, right at the South of the Yorkshire Dales. We had a very warm welcome from Ruth, Jamie and John and were able to test ride more than one tandem model. Our first ride was on their “touring” tandem, the Orbit Velocity. At once, we …
Andreas flew over from Norway for a bit of bike shopping, as you do. First stop, Iron bridge and “Bicycles by Design”, where we learned to ride a tandem and test rode one of their “Landescape” tandems. It was a steep learning curve, but we managed without falling off and even enjoyed the Shropshire hills. …