Monday, 9 August 2021

There is a Pegaso sized hole in the garage.

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 I've prematurely declared "The Bastard" extinct a few times over the years. And for bloody minded reasons it has been resurre...
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Sunday, 14 July 2019

Pegs on the TET

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The Trans European Trail - a (mainly) off road route around Europe. With a 1500mile chunk through the UK. "Let's do it" said...
Thursday, 20 September 2018

Run to the Sun

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Between the MOT and heading off to the Bol D'Or (a 24 hour endurance bike race, in the South of France) with Gibbo and his restored/rebu...
Thursday, 24 May 2018

Project Resurrection

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You can't keep a good bike down. All it took was a suggestion from a friend, doesn't it always with me ? Just plant a daft idea an...
Wednesday, 23 August 2017

The Bastard - RIP

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It is with a deep and heavy heart that I have to announce the Bastard has passed away. In a final selfless act he donated his entire cooli...
Friday, 5 May 2017

And so it starts....

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As we prepare to set off on a new trip (to Mongolia) with the "Bastard" left behind as I take Jean's old Peg and she her new o...
Monday, 24 October 2016

(Semi) Retired

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The bike, not me.   It is time to go easy on the old bike, following our earlier soaking during 3 weeks in Scotland this year, which sh...
Sunday, 31 July 2016

Oh, look, it is a Pegaso with an electrical failure

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Spoke too soon, didn't I ? That fuse blowing incident earlier this year, the one I forgot to get to the bottom of. Just bit me. I ha...
Thursday, 28 July 2016

Time flies

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It has been nearly a year since my last post, some people may think that means the bike is dead. Fear not, she is still running and manage...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

Sod it, every one else is going

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It seems every man and his dog is going to Morocco, so it is about time the Pegs went. They bikes are serviced. A ferry ticket has been bou...
Friday, 13 March 2015

A short break and she is back on the road again

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Repairs to the ignition were completed with the aid of Pitstop (as usual). I sourced an ignition barrel from a smaller Aprilia, only the low...
Sunday, 16 November 2014

She is playing up again

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I decided it was time to get my left hand pannier fixed the other day, some daylight had started showing between the welds and around one of...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

No more bouncy bouncy

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After bouncing halfway round the world with a duff rear shock and being to mean/lazy to get around to replacing it in the 12 months since I ...
Saturday, 28 June 2014

Naked again !

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Late last year I mentioned the bike was getting a rest, it was a very short rest and most of the work I was going to do never got done. Sh...
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Back of the garage

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The Peg (I don't call her the "Bastard" as often as I used to) has been relegated to the back of the garage, pending some item...
Saturday, 7 December 2013

Still running

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After 74 days, four breakdowns and 17000 miles the Peg came back home, the trip blog is here. http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/2p...
Saturday, 13 April 2013

Off on another long ride

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My Peg has been "resting", while I have been playing (and working). I am off on another trip, this time a RTW. Northern hemisphere...
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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

All fixed and ready for an MOT ?

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Ever since the rewire in baton Rouge I have suffered a combination of no dip headlight or no full bean and at various times no horn. (And d...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

Bikes that know the weather forecast

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A couple of weeks ago I was setting off to the Horizons Unlimted UK meet to give a presentation on our trip "Down the World" on tw...
Monday, 7 May 2012

Oh no, the service/spanner light has come on!

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It has been a quiet winter for the "bastard", mainly due to me working away in Peterborough. I like riding, but with the cold, sno...