As some of you know, I'm off to Switzerland in a few days time, and the trip is going to be made all the more special for me, for several reasons. Firstly I'll be spending time with my family, secondly I am taking both KTM's with me, just hoping that a new brake set up arrives in time, and lastly I am doing something in memory for someone that I have never met.
It's a long story that I want bore you with, but basically I had been helping out a keen cyclist/cycle shop owner, to come up with a memorial bench for a dear friend of his. Very sadly he also died last year, so the bench was never made.
We had conversations about Switzerland, and the area that I'm visiting, and he had cycled one particularly tough route, that I have always wanted to do my self.
It recently struck me, that I could do something of my own, and came up with the idea of making a memorial plaque to show the fondness that each shared for the other. I intend to cycle the tough route, place the plaque at the base of the Eiger, crack open a beer for him, watch the sun set and then ride back down the mountain late evening.
Watching the sun go down from the Eiger has been on my bucket list for a very long time, but the lack of evening trains coming down the mountain, has prevented it. Having the bike, now solves this issue.
Anyway, with a cycle themed plaque, here is me giving a little back to an unknown man and his friend.
(I still need to countersink the screw heads further)
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It's a long story that I want bore you with, but basically I had been helping out a keen cyclist/cycle shop owner, to come up with a memorial bench for a dear friend of his. Very sadly he also died last year, so the bench was never made.
We had conversations about Switzerland, and the area that I'm visiting, and he had cycled one particularly tough route, that I have always wanted to do my self.
It recently struck me, that I could do something of my own, and came up with the idea of making a memorial plaque to show the fondness that each shared for the other. I intend to cycle the tough route, place the plaque at the base of the Eiger, crack open a beer for him, watch the sun set and then ride back down the mountain late evening.
Watching the sun go down from the Eiger has been on my bucket list for a very long time, but the lack of evening trains coming down the mountain, has prevented it. Having the bike, now solves this issue.
Anyway, with a cycle themed plaque, here is me giving a little back to an unknown man and his friend.
(I still need to countersink the screw heads further)
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