Wednesday, November 2, 2011

A Bit More Video - Apparently


Here we are. Home. Washing machine full of clothes, family’s happy, jet-lagged and not a cheese and ham sandwich in sight. I think we all made it home OK? I know 'Two bottles' Tony could have done without the Quantas strike and loosing his phone. R made it home for Halloween so the Gent must have got home safely as well? Nick landed DXB this morning. D had the shortest flight so were all good...

I'm Just trying to make sense of the hard drive of images and video (it's not happening today) and these came to the surface. Mil Cumbres (thousand hills), 15 mins of madness which I'm sure we will treasure.

Mil Cumbres from Turnpin Lane on Vimeo.

The next is rather more sedate. It’s more sedate because we just didn’t like the look of it, watch the video and you will see why.

Untitled from Turnpin Lane on Vimeo.

With both videos you don’t get any real idea of the gradients. Going uphill you just felt so sorry for the old girl as she was thrashed to within an inch of her life trying to get the best from her very long gearbox. Going downhill slowing her down was always at the forefront of your mind as you had the hit the pedal twice before you got any brakes and by the end of the stage there simply wasn’t any brakes left. Sounds like a nightmare but it was predictable and in the end quite good fun… "apparently"

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