Over the last couple of days, we set out to climb our local mountain in the RN. Having cleaned the plugs and points, adjusted the brakes so that they worked (as best as any 7 could expect), we were ready. Its a 278 mile round trip and the odometer had just flipped over with a start reading of 0013 (ominous I thought). All went exceedingly well and the overnight stop was in a wood cabin 20 feet up in a beech tree on the side of hill outside Aurilac. Early day 2, nice and cool and about a 20 mile easy slow climb in top warmed her little heart up for the 6 mile grind in 2nd gear up sections of 15% gradient to climb Puy Mary 1589 meters in the Volcans region of the Cantal region of SW France. Couple of nasty hairpin bends called for 1st gear and even at one stage near the peak managed a few hundred yards in top! fantastic views and superb weather. The trip down - quite hairy using engine braking as much as possible and apart from one rear brake seizing on after a fuel stop, no problems to report.
Look on the bright side Bruce, plenty of logs for the stove next year! Perhaps AXA will pay you to chop them up??
Look on the bright side Bruce, plenty of logs for the stove next year! Perhaps AXA will pay you to chop them up??