As beautiful as the scenery at Nordkapp and as thrilling as the feeling of getting there, deeper impressions were left on me by a handful of lonely bicyclers we passed. The roads endless up there, swaying through cold, dark tunnels, the weather’s wet jaw bid thighs, shoulders and face, and hubs for rest were fifties […]
Headache came first. I ascribed it to dehydration, or a delayed dizziness from the ferry to Helsinki, or heavy neck tensions from carrying the weight of the helmet and pushing it against the wind many hours a day, or maybe the ongoing noise inside the helmet during those same hours. Then the next morning came […]
“Oooouuuuhhhhh” an older man laughed at us when we stood in underpants at a gas station near Rostock in Germany. The wife in the passenger seat of the car seemed to not really know where to look. We were for the second time on the day of departure from Herning in Denmark stuffing the water […]
My butt hurt and my throttle hand was numb. My ears were ringing and I could barely see the road for dead bugs on my helmet. I had just come home from 11 hours on the road. I blasted 611 km through the Danish landscapes yesterday. I had two goals: Thise Mejeriet in Thise, a Danish […]
A couple of weekends ago I finally finished putting the front of Bob back together. Since then I drove about 1500 km in sweat-breaking heat, strong winds and pouring rain. On the road I managed to run out of fuel twice. The motorcycle has a small tap handle where you can block the fuel […]
The weather was bad when I took the bus home to Aalborg from Herning Monday morning. I didn’t mind that much because, mildly speaking, Bob is not ready to go. The plan before the weekend was to put the front end back on there. Instead I took off the front fender, the windscreen and the […]
My motorcycle, Bob in case you forgot him, was checked twice for drivability. He’s “average” on paper, like any other used motorcycle car out there on the street. I changed oils, filters, battery, spark plugs, some cables, some nuts and bolts, adjusted the valves, fixed some flickering of the blink and back lights, took off […]
[I write this post with special dedication to the people who kindly offered me places to sleep when I planned the original trip. The original plan was to drive all the way to Barcelona on my newly-acquired motorcycle but, in short, stupid paper work stopped me from doing that. So last minute I decided to […]
Our journey became realistic once we made a budget. Very rough back-of-the-napkin calculations told us that we would be able to save enough money during our PhDs but the hunch was not solidified until the budget came together about a year ago. Our particular trip takes about 35,000 EUR, 50,000 USD or 260.000 DKK, details below (all […]
I met my motorcycle for the first time this Christmas holiday and had a couple of nights to get it started and inspect its condition. This is a 1985-BMW R80G/S with a couple hundred kilometers more than 100.000 (most from before ‘97) on the odometer. It’s a classic motorcycle produced from 1980-87 and, since then, […]