Everywhere Virtually » Tyres http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk The adventure begins in your head Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:31:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pressing on to Germany http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/2009/08/31/pressing-on-to-germany/ http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/2009/08/31/pressing-on-to-germany/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:25:33 +0000 Jonathan http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/?p=244

As the day warmed up to a pleasant but not uncomfortable temperature I soon made it to Germany. En route I chuckled to myself that I was nearing Helmond in the Netherlands… I thought this trip is so hardcore I’m going through Helmond. (referring to Helmand Province in Afghanistan)

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I made good progress and arrived in Dusseldorf by 13:30. I was set to meet my friend Simon who had recently moved from the UK. Unfortunately he was out with his wife and his son was home playing Warcraft on the computer. We had a chat and then I sat on the bottom step of the stairs while his son went back to Warcraft. I was pretty tired at this point and I felt like I had a micro sleep but it could have been as much as an hour.

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At 3pm I decided I couldn’t wait any longer and would catch Simon on my return. I got out of Dusseldorf and headed for Frankfurt. Germany is a big place and I figured I would be in Frankfurt in no time at all. In reality it took a lot longer and it would take longer still to reach Nuremburg, Passau and ultimately Linz.

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By late afternoon I was in Bavaria and dodging the thunder clouds.

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Having been a little chilly as I rode over the German Jura Mountains I was greatly relieved to arrive in Linz at midnight. It had been a long slog with little sleep but worthy of an iron butt award.

]]> http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/2009/08/31/pressing-on-to-germany/feed/ 0 The Tyre Saga is over http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/2009/08/27/the-tyre-saga-is-over/ http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/2009/08/27/the-tyre-saga-is-over/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:52:31 +0000 Jonathan http://www.everywherevirtually.co.uk/2009/08/27/the-tyre-saga-is-over/

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The tyres turned up today which left only two more potential problems. Firstly how to fit them and secondly how to balance them.

Chris at adv-spec sent me a link to BTS (Bike Tyre Services)

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I spoke to Matt who owns it and it turned out he had a cancellation in Macclesfield and was quite close to me. he turned up at 4 and was done by 5. A real decent bloke who did an excellent job, took a lot of care of the black rims and even told me that the last person had put my rear tyre on the wrong way around. He took my old tyres away and gave me a good price.

he really saved my bacon and saved me from a lot of blood, sweat, tears and copious amounts of swearing!

If you are in the North West of England give this guy a call. he’s good!

Matt: mob 07771 962 239

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