NorthCape-SouthCape:
051227
Update 2.0
2 degrees below and 520kms ridden.
Today in Eksjö what shouldn’t happen, happened, but from experience I know that un-tried developments will fail. The attachment for my rear fuel container broke, the rear bit just disappeared.
Heartbroken
I left the Shell station in Eksjö and immediately had
the next disaster. When I reached 45kph the driveshaft gave
off serious noise, a mechanical clanking noise that seemed
to vary with the speed. How on Earth can 3,000 lady-ridden
kilometres with a quality product from BMW cause this? If
it’s not the cat, it’s the mother-in-law…
Telephone contact with Peter Andersson at BMW only led to
his answering machine. Now we had to find a solution. After
some hard thinking I decided to proceed slowly to Vetlanda
and the closest dealer for help. After 2kms the impossible
happened and the driveshaft repaired itself.
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I
have never experienced this before but my pal Per Andersson did,
20 years ago. He owned an extremely old and battered Volkswagen
pick-up. It broke down in February and Per parked it behind his
garage, where it was left in shame for over a month. Then he started
it up again and it had fixed itself. Per maintains to this day that
the car had repaired itself. I was always sceptical to this story,
but now, 20 years later, I have the same experience. After some
hours more I understood what had happened. Thy tyre was stressed
and lost a few spikes, one of which did not let go completely, but
hung sideways and hit the swinging arm every time it passed. When
I continued to ride, this spike let go completely from the tyre
and the noise stopped..
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The company Famero with Inge and Hasse was trusted to upgrade the container holder, fabricated by Håkan Hammarstedt. In computer terms the upgrade went to 2.0. I hope sincerely that no further update – to 3.0 – will be necessary. That would probably be in Sudan or Ethiopia und I doubt there are computer updates to 3.0 available there.
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High
Performance Riding
www.pgdakar.com |
Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Fjällbonäs 15
933 91 Arvidsjaur |
Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Eva.PG.Lundmark@swipnet.se
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Updated
2006-01-02
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