22 April. Ink and Oil


Friday 22 April

• Iain Harper from Overland Junction wrote a very nice review about ‘Life on 2 Wheels’, my book about the R1 World Travel. http://overlandjunction.com/features/book-review-life-2-wheels/

Life on 2 Wheels, bookmarks

• The new bookmark arrived, to go with ‘Life on 2 Wheels’, the story about my 250,000 kilometre ride around the world with an R1. To find an owner for all of them is next…

• The Belgium magazine, Motorrijder, publishes a page TIPS FROM GLOBETROTTERS which they bring in a playful way. In the most recent edition I had the honour to fill that page.

R1-Goes-Extreme, new oil

R1-Goes-Extreme, switching switches

R1-Goes-Extreme, fans

• Friday afternoon 22 April my World Travel R1 needs to be ready for a ride to Zottegem in Belgium, where I will attend MC Devil Rowlers´ Flying Saucer Bike Meeting on 23 and 24 April.
For the trip over there, and for this years’ riding season, I mounted a new oil filter on Florentina and gave her fresh Putoline Oil. Next, I cleaned the outside of her radiator. Now about 90% from the radiators’ surface helps cooling again. Because her cooling fan slowed down during low revs and stopped eventually completely when idling, she suffered overheating in the cities, making red traffic lights a pain. With another temperature switch and fan mounted, that I nicked from the Polar Ice Ride R1, that problem was solved. Now she is ready for it!

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R1-Goes-Extreme, PolaIceRide & Florentina