My trailer - oh bugger.
No matter how hard I tried I just couldn't find tyres that could both do the speed and take the rough stuff. I even tried to get tyres sent from England. Greg, the engineer who made the trailer, even offered to arrange delivery of the tyres for me but the cost of freight was ridiculous. The cheapest quote was from DHL at three hundred and eighty pounds ($608) plus the tyre costs - ouch.
The trailer itself was as strong as the day I towed it out of England but tyres were always a problem.
Plenty of agricultural tyres at the correct size but they couldn't handle the speed. Other light weight tyres disintegrated after a few kilometres.
I tried to keep it going but in the end I admitted defeat. The trailer went to another home in Kyrgyzstan.
Memories of one of the better roads the poor thing had to negotiate -
Hiccup numbers two and three - ( all on the same day )
Windscreen - oh bugger again.
Bike parked on it's side stand at the Torugat Pass. It was windy but not so windy that I was worried but I should have been. While standing in a group with the others chatting when we heard the sound of two bikes falling. Sure enough one was mine and the windscreen smashed. Shit, shit, shit.
Same day my passport was misplaced for a short time just when it was needed by the Chinese authorities. Mad panic and all hands on deck scrambling to find the thing. Well done Clive for finding it. Clive has decided to call me 'CD' which stands for 'Calamity Dave' apparently. Hope that is the end of my run of misfortune.
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