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29 January 2012
Caution – Long Vehicle!
2m of coving makes this the longest load I’ve had on my stock Carry Freedom.
Probably just about the limit unless you’re sure you won’t be going over speed bumps and so on!
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12 January 2012
Got wood?
73KGs of fallen lumber transported with aplomb by the Carry freedom Y-frame.
The trailer managed easily enough… more than can be said for me!
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24 November 2011
Life with four wheels
The first of many updates on life with a Carry Freedom Y-Frame trailer, which is a good sort of life.
Reflections on fitting to two bikes, noise, load, reuse of council recycling boxes, cunning shopping strategies, and more.
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9 November 2011
Carry Freedom Y Frame
From the first moment I hitched it to my bike, I knew this was one purchase I wouldn’t have many second thoughts about.
Why didn’t I buy one earlier, it would have paid for itself ten times over by now!
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22 September 2011
PBP: Going Faster
There are four years and myriad assumptions involved in getting to PBP 2015, but I’d like to think I’ll be back and angling for a much faster ride.
At times the only thing that kept me going was the surety that the only thing worse than what I was enduring would be to fail to endure it!
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31 August 2011
Nazca Gaucho 28 review
If you’re ever passed by a Gaucho 28, the first thing you’ll probably notice is the light pair of full-size 700C wheels, shod with Continental’s sublime GP4000s – a combination that wouldn’t be out of place on an upmarket conventional racing bike…
A lovely contoured carbon seat and shiny carbon forks round off a package that includes oh-so-aero reverse-mounted brake calipers and a butted derailleur boom which flares at the end to accommodate a conventional band-on attachment. A real racing recumbent, right?
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14 July 2011
Dual 700C Raptobike lowracer
Earlier this year, Arnold Ligtvoet of RaptoBike posted a tantalising photograph on BROL. It looked to all intents and purposes like a stock Raptobike Lowracer which had been fitted with the Midracer fork to accommodate a full-size front wheel… and it was!
Well, I just had to get one of those, so after exchanging a couple of cautious emails I popped an order in the post for one midracer fork…
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6 June 2011
Edinburgh-Preston-Edinburgh 600
The first opportunity to close off qualification for Paris-Brest-Paris. The simplest route sheet in all of Audax. 600km.
A large field of 37 riders assembled on a typically sharp and windy Edinburgh morning for what would turn out to be an epic ride – just 28 would go on to finish….