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My new baby has arrived!
Team Triplet:
Conceived 29th May 2004 during a visit to St John St.
Labour started Thursday 5th August when recieved at home by Senior Management but I was cycle camping in Nederland with Junior Managament and her cousin. It was a hard labour as all the kids and our friends got was "my baby's at home" during our last days camping and on the journey home.
Birth - 23:00 Saturday 7th August after we got back from the Nederlands, and she was extarteds from the large carboard box that formed her transport womb.
First ride this afternoon 18.5 miles through a nice range of terrain to give my baby a good test of her character. Shepshed - Breedon on the hill, up the 1 in 6 to the top, and the bridleway and ford from Belton to Shepshed.
For a first ride she was brilliant!
The spec is Exp drop bar Rolhoff hub with 44/16 transmission, in maroon and cream full retro livery with S&S.
I have taken lots of photos for posting up on the team-triplet web site, www.team-triplet.com later. The sad thing is that in order get my new baby our triplet was sadly scarificed at St John St as a trade in.
For a photo of baby see:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/team-triplet/TTimages/2004/P8088447.jpg
Note the addition of the standard Dutch elastic!
LowFlyingHawk:
Maroon and cream is a good choice. It looks great [:D]
For the uneducated (me!!) - what is the standard Dutch elastic?
Team Triplet:
For the uneducated (me!!) - what is the standard Dutch elastic?
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Its the elastic strap found on virtually every rear rack on a Dutch bike. For a close up photo see
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/team-triplet/TTimages/2004/P8088462.jpg
The strap is very Dutch. In our recent cycle tour of the Nederlands we crossed over into Germany. We stopped by in a German supermarket about 5 miles from the Dutch border in an area where cycling is as common as in Nedlerland ( so much so that when a work collegae went to our Borken site close by for 5 weeks they were give a bike to get around!), no bike had an elastic strap!
I brought enough in the Nederlands to fit our tandems and half bikes. I fitted one to the tandem whilst there and it proved invaulable for carrying odd items on the rack.
The thing to watch out for when buying one is the fitting at each end and your pannier fitting (presumming you want to use panniers). Many of the straps come with a bulky fitting which is NBG.
The straps come with 3 or 4 straps. I brought a 4 strap one for my baby. For my tandems I was limited to a 3 strap version as it was the only one I could get that fitted the pannier fitting at the rear ends.
LowFlyingHawk:
Thanks for that.
I am waiting for the arrival of my new Raven Adventure Tour. [:p] In the interim, I can work on the loosening crank on my hybrid.[:(!]
Chris Land:
Looks great, but can I ask what prompted the eXp over Raven tour decision, given the whole Rohloff thing?
Paint job is really lovely...
Also, does this mean cheap triplets on sale at SJSC???
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