A bespoke journey Down Under
Posted on May 7, 2013, in Australia: Sydney to Melbourne 1000kms, New Zealand End-to-End 3000kms and tagged cycling, exploration, sport, touring, travel. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
Posted by Frank Burns
If you are free, and live locally, do come and join us.
This will be the first of several presentations…….so it may benefit from the freshness that comes with not knowing exactly where the script is going to take me……;0)
Posted on May 7, 2013, in Australia: Sydney to Melbourne 1000kms, New Zealand End-to-End 3000kms and tagged cycling, exploration, sport, touring, travel. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
My journeys around the world are less about riding a bicycle, and more about what happens when I get off the bicycle.
(2010) 5,923 miles/9532 km
(2011) 9,023 miles/14,520 km
(2012) 10,288 miles/16,557 km
(2013) 11,007 miles/17,714 km
(2014) 13,196 miles/21,236 km
(2015) 10,597 miles/17,053 km
(2016) 5330 miles/8567 km (2017) 7814 miles/12,575 km (2018) 6844 miles/11,141 km (2019) 6325 miles/10179 km (2020) 5241 miles/8434 km (2021) 5124 miles/8246 km
Lifetime total: 252,371 miles/406,267 km
My journeys around the world are less about riding a bicycle, and more about what happens when I get off the bicycle.
(2010) 5,923 miles/9532 km
(2011) 9,023 miles/14,520 km
(2012) 10,288 miles/16,557 km
(2013) 11,007 miles/17,714 km
(2014) 13,196 miles/21,236 km
(2015) 10,597 miles/17,053 km
(2016) 5330 miles/8567 km (2017) 7814 miles/12,575 km (2018) 6844 miles/11,141 km (2019) 6325 miles/10179 km (2020) 5241 miles/8434 km (2021) 5124 miles/8246 km
Lifetime total: 252,371 miles/406,267 km
Hello Frank, I would have loved to have come to your talk, but we already have tickets for something else that night. I hope you will be doing another talk before too long.
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Sheila,
I’ll be doing another on Monday May 20th at Grafham Cycling, Marlow Car Park, Grafham at 8pm.
Do come if you can. I’ll copy this to an email for you.
Frank
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I would love to be a member of the audience but alas it is too far away!
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But Heather…….it’s only 18,000 km away……..;0)
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It’s not just the distance but the cost !!!
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I’d love to be able to be there, Frank, first and foremost to find out exactly what ‘bespoke’ means. It’s very good sounding word anyway. 😉
Come and do a ride (and presentation) in Amsterdam some time.
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Excuse my ‘bad’ sense of humour, Heather….. Now if I were really smart, I would relay it over the internet……but then I’m just a cyclist who turns pedals 🙂
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A bit of ‘poetic licence’ Richard, using an old tailoring term to fit a cycling context….a bit crude, I know.
However, my new bike frame will be ‘bespoke’. I travelled a couple of hours to meet one of the country’s best frame-builders, in his garden workshop, and he measured me up for a new frame. Very exciting….but it’s a three month waiting list.
And by the way, if you can put an audience together, I’d be delighted to come and do a presentation! We’ll sort out the logistics of cycling and carrying the presentation kit another time……
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Hi Frank,
Friday night is, unfortunately, my boarding house duty and I don’t finish until 10pm. Shall be very sorry to miss it, but there we are. Hope it goes well. Only 41 days left !
Best
Peter
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Really love to be there but we will thinking of you in Peru walking 5,000m up in the inca foot steps. Have a great talk and we will catch up with one of your other talks.
David and Charlotte.
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Fenomenal! Qué vaya muy bien! Hope you have a great time………and may the view of Machu Picchu be perfect when you get to the Gateway of the Sun. Frank
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Enjoy the last term Peter…… 🙂
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Hi Frank,
I’ll be coming along to Grafham gig and hopefully with some other SNCC folk in tow. Looking forward to it!
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Great. Look forward to seeing you all there.
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