Hello again and whoa!! what a tour! :0)
I decided to get one of the tasks of the last post solved! Namely the water problem! :0D
Therefore I bought 2 750ml bottles and one mounting. I still had one old from last year.
Since I didn't wanted to wait until my next weekend tour, I decided to test the bottles and the mountings instantly. :0)
The new mounting was attached very easy. I had to buy a model with hook and loop fastener, because I haven't got those mounting points on my bike. The attaching was really fast, I just had to thread the fastener through the tiny gap between bike and gear bowden and then push the two sides onto each other. :0) Done! \:0D/
The second mounting wasn't that easy. :0) Because it was a mounting for bikes with that attaching points… But with the help of my two friends electrical tape and cable ties I solved that problem, too. I just had too measure the position and distances correctly. Here is the result:
A short wiggling resulted in the same wiggle wiggle value for both mountings. Haha! :0)
Now I was curious how good or bad these constructions would do on a tour and if I could solve my lazyness problem with more lazyness. :0) Therefore I cleaned my bottles and filled them with slightly salted water. And then at 18 o'clock I started my tour. :0) But, as I promissed and had to hold my word, I drove the wrong way and found myself in a small forest! Haha! :0)
After my small mishap, I took a longer but known shortcut.
And finally I found some streets, fortunately! :0)
Unfortunately the master of streets wasn't in my favour and replaced the street with a wonderful, almost impassable sand path. :0D I drove it nonetheless. :0)
Fortunately I drove on, because after that a beautiful nature revealed itself!
I like the light at the evening! It adds a wonderful glow to everything. :0) Here are some impressions:
After half the way was done I checked my mountings and tried to get a small interim conclusion. Positive was that one bottle was empty now! 750 ml disappeared into my stomach! \:0D/ Drinking was a lot easier now. I did not have to stop and get down from my bike. Though I should stop to not drive into someone while drinking. :0) The bottle is really easy to get out of the mounting with one hand. Also the fastener is no problem! Drinking, closing and putting the bottle away is easy too. :0)
Also the mountings were still on their place. :0) Nothing was displaced! Neither the hook and loop fastener nor the self made one. \:0D/
The only disadvantages for now were:
Also I put a bit to much salt into my water… Not to much to give a bad taste, but it was enough to make me more thirsty the more I drank. :0)
But now, more Pictures. :0)
Both mountings did not went down after 50 km. And that even after driving on streets, cobblestone roads and sandy ways with deep pits. :0) Hahaha! \o/ Now I just have to get the raintest done, then I'm sure this will survive my Sweden tour. :0)
Here is my roadmap for this tour. :0) But be careful, this is a bad Google Maps link, so just click on it if you want Google to know your most secret secrets:
Hier ist noch der Fahrplan für alle Interessierten. :0) Aber Vorsicht, dass ist ein böser Google Maps Link, klickt also bitte nur darauf, wenn ihr all eure streng geheimen Daten an Google weitergeben möchtet:
Roadmap
That was it for today, now I have to go to bed. I have to do a bit of swim training. :0) I'm so bad at swimming! Haha!
See you next time, have a lot of fun and exciting adventures on your journeys,
Robert