Well Brian and I will hopefully get our ride to Altnabreac later in the week.
Meanwhile Caleb and I spent an enjoyable afternoon out on the Flying Scot tandem. Still work to be done to suite us and most of that will be over the winter when it will get stripped down and fully serviced. For now our major problem of the front derailleur rapidly losing the ability to move was down to an outer cable falling apart at a cable guide. Next up is bars and brake levers.
We now had gears back and that made it easier to head up the hill behind the house and up off the coast to slowly meander through the farm roads and tracks out towards Dunnet before heading back to the coast and taking a few of the dirt tracks to see if we could get anywhere on them. Some were good and some either didn't go anywhere or were flooded due to the weeks rain.
We stopped at Castletown harbour and had some brownie that Caleb had cooked with Heather yesterday and I had snuck into the trunk bag. Weather was dry but definitely cool, winter will soon be here.
It was a great few hours and Caleb loved it, he is a natural on the tandem as we never have any problem with being out of sync or thinking we are about to do something we aren't, it's just very easy and natural.
Anyway, hope it was dry with everyone else and maybe we all had a ride.
Jamie
IMG_4100 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4104 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4105 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4110 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4112 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4115 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4119 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4120 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4122 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4125 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
Meanwhile Caleb and I spent an enjoyable afternoon out on the Flying Scot tandem. Still work to be done to suite us and most of that will be over the winter when it will get stripped down and fully serviced. For now our major problem of the front derailleur rapidly losing the ability to move was down to an outer cable falling apart at a cable guide. Next up is bars and brake levers.
We now had gears back and that made it easier to head up the hill behind the house and up off the coast to slowly meander through the farm roads and tracks out towards Dunnet before heading back to the coast and taking a few of the dirt tracks to see if we could get anywhere on them. Some were good and some either didn't go anywhere or were flooded due to the weeks rain.
We stopped at Castletown harbour and had some brownie that Caleb had cooked with Heather yesterday and I had snuck into the trunk bag. Weather was dry but definitely cool, winter will soon be here.
It was a great few hours and Caleb loved it, he is a natural on the tandem as we never have any problem with being out of sync or thinking we are about to do something we aren't, it's just very easy and natural.
Anyway, hope it was dry with everyone else and maybe we all had a ride.
Jamie
IMG_4100 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4104 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4105 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4110 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4112 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4115 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4119 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4120 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4122 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
IMG_4125 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr