The repairs just became part of the adventure. I almost looked forward to them. It gave me a reason to give the bike a real good once over at night and have the bike all ready to go when I woke up. I was in no hurry to get any where so the time spent on repairs did not matter.
I do use tuffy's on the bike. The flat I did get was through the side wall on a sharp turn I think.
The trialer I use is my daughters old in step kid trailer. Until the wheel fell off it , it was great. When I got home I added some of those ringed pins to the wheel pins and they should not fall off again. I would suggest this to any one who is using an old kid trailer with the detachable wheels
uncle punk, I tell you that I am hooked on bike travel and am going to spend my vacations in the future doing that instead of hunting like I used to. It is the most fun I have ever had on a vacation. Every one should try it at least once.
Yeah I hear that about the repairs. On my 1905 Mead/Whizzer, it was always something different, but using mostly period components, I kinda expected some of it. I had my morning routine of checks before starting out.
It's funny to me that you mention the hunting- my first motored bike was a broken down 1960's huffy, painted camoflauge, with a 'Zipper' friction drive rack mount set up. It was given to me by a friend who moved out of state and didn't want to take it with him. That was back in 1998. The history of it was that the original owner used it to go out up in the hills to hunt rabbit. I guess he would travel up there to the hils, chain it to a tree, then go hunting... I also knew a guy who used his bike bug (front drive, friction, rack kit on a folding bike) to scout for canoe landing locations, then go canoing, with the bike, and use it to get back to his truck and go pick up the canoe. Just, you know, interesting (I thought), so I thought I'd share.
You will reduce any spoke issues by ALWAYS pedal assisting starts and steep grades. My spoke issues came from bent rim hoops, not the drive ring on the whizzer. As far as the whizzer reliability, Your '08 has had most of the bugs worked out. I was using the notorious first generation WC-1...
I live for the long distance runs, and try to get out there every few years as work scheduling permits. In between, I just adventure locally... Have fun y'all!!!
