For anyone who fancies a read, here's my account of my summer holiday - 8 recumbent trike riders doing 800 odd miles though France...

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Arch Wrote:
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> For anyone who fancies a read, here's my account
> of my summer holiday - 8 recumbent trike riders
> doing 800 odd miles though France...
Nice write-up, and a reminder that I really need to get my arse
into gear, renew my passport and spend a bit of quality time in
Foreign Parts (Portugal and Spain next Easter, work and money
permitting)

Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Eventually, I fancy heading off for some months of random exploration on the Continent, but I need to build up some funds first.

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I'm only part way through but I'm enjoying the ride - very entertaining. It must have been great fun. You didn't pass as close to me this time, but you did pass close to another Velo Vision reader on the Richelieu to Chauvigny leg - like flies, we're everywhere :-)

Thanks for that write up Sue I very much enjoyed reading it. Photographs just bring the whole trip to life and it is great to see what other trikers are doing on their travels.

It also goes to show what a close knit community trike riders are.

You are riding a trike with a flag made by an English guy living in Denmark who originally made it for a trike sent to him by an English guy living in France, who you incidentally went on holiday with (Alistair). It is all a bit "Tales of the unexpected isn`t it?

If Alistair reads this. I am loving the trike Alistair and will be touring Denmark on it next week.

Steve

Arch Wrote:
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> Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Eventually, I fancy
> heading off for some months of random exploration
> on the Continent, but I need to build up some
> funds first.
That's the kicker.
I've got a decent start for next year's Iberian adventure (ie. flights etc. covered) but other plans include a Japanese end-to-end (3000km in around 4 weeks) and 3 months in Western Australia (albeit not for at least 4-5 years yet - lots of planning involved there)

The Japanese trip promises to be a real wallet ripper, but it's somewhere I've always wanted to go, so ...

Steveindenmark Wrote:
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> It also goes to show what a close knit community
> trike riders are.
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Verging on 'incestuous' I think... ;-)

I was on the trike at the weekend, and stopped at my favourite cafe in Pocklington (Heike's Imbiss, pot of tea and a sausage sandwich for ?2.90). As I locked the trike, a chap pulled up and said "Do you know Mike Hessey of the Folding Society? I used to live next door to him, and I've only seen one like that before, and he had it..."

I can't say I know every trike rider in the UK, but I bet I know a fair few of them!

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ICE are selling 50 a month so this will not be true for long, Arch.Admittedly many are sold to the US of A but a good proportion are sold in the UK too.

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

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Well, the more the merrier! :-)

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Even when you have never met someone, you can still be known by them - the first time I went to Cyclefest in Lancaster (the 2002 2nd last edition) I was approched (seperately) by 2 people (strangers to me) on my first night there who greeted me with "you must be John Turvey" (1), and on a cycle tour in the Netherlands (the 2003 Eco Trip) two of the other participants were riding a Greenspeed trike - I had advised them how to remove and replace a worn out wheel bearing via a web forum just a couple of weeks earlier without realising they were also going on the Eco Trip (and fortunsaterly my advice was exactly the same as the advice they got from Ian Simms)

John Turvey

(1) I have no claim to fame as far as I know.

Thoroughly enjoyed your account, especially the bits that were familiar to me from family holidays 25 years ago: Les Sables d'Olonne and northwards!

I must say one of the things I don't like about 'bents compared to uprights is riding in the rain - you always seem to get wetter in the recumbent position.

In some of the rain we had, it would have made no difference at all.

Your front maybe gets wetter, but your back doesn't - so it's swings and roundabouts.

Maybe it feels wetter, because you're face up, not head down.

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Of course, there is a bigger 'wet bottom' syndrome on a recumbent, unless you're very careful about carrying and using a waterproof cover....

Sables d'Olonnes was a big shock to the system, such a big city after days of little villages and towns. Still, the icecream was good.

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Why was Mark doing drugs on the Trice seat?


and dont say he was siphoning water.

It was drugs

Oh yeah, he had a big stash of top quality Columbian* in there...

Trouble is, I think it got a bit damp....

*coffee, of course.

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