Belper phil
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After looking fleetingly through Andy's recent excellent report and pics from the Himalayas i have been prompted to add my 5 peneth. I wont try to match Andy's descriptive report in any way shape or form but will offer some pics for you to savour. Pity we did'nt meet up with you lads but you obviously had an excellent time as we did. We were 7 strong only and certainly not magnificent, but we made our own rules and route up as we went along.
Delhi, full of stench, death and deprivation!
On his last legs when i saw him or rather off them! Looked like he had some of Proffs cider.
Food on the train journey north to Shimla was free and i ate it!
My steed for 3 weeks, a 535 lightning with hard core kick start!
The mechanic pictured next to Jaber before he let us feck off on our own with his company's bikes. Jaber gave him a free Frank Thomas jacket courtesy of Whatton at the end of the trip when he came to collect and inspect the damage to his bikes in Kalka. It ******* buried him!
We soon wished we had taken him with us.
Jaber came through though, on time every time as the top Enfield officianado fixing all the groups problems.
Roads were non existent in some places and tight in others with some very near misses for several of us.
We filmed all our own stunts at some hectic speeds while avoiding everything you can think of and more on the roads. The continual blasting of horns is mandatory and whilst it's no guarantee it's the only hope you have.
Andy Green had the camera but not the map, however, even though he had'nt got a clue where he was going he always did it flat out.
As i said, we filmed our own stunts. Eamon threw his down the road after hitting rocks and losing the steering, it did bend the crank but they straightened it with a lump hammer!
Then we threw all 7 over a ravine, here's mine on it's way to the promised land.
We gatecrashed a wedding and tested some tasty morsels.
Then Jaber got sick, but this was due to altitude sickness on more than one occasion.
We met the rider of this HPN prep'd 100PD in Manali who had ridden from Germany. His TT panniers looked wrecked so i gave him Verns details.
Before we knew it we were back in Shimla where we started and on the last day with the bikes we rode down to Kalka to hand them back. In total some 15 hrs of video footage was shot and all being well there will be a DVD out in time for xmas.
Fantastic once in a life time trip and as for Royal Enfields, i want one! Hope you enjoyed living a tiny piece of it Jaber and Phil.
Delhi, full of stench, death and deprivation!
On his last legs when i saw him or rather off them! Looked like he had some of Proffs cider.
Food on the train journey north to Shimla was free and i ate it!
My steed for 3 weeks, a 535 lightning with hard core kick start!
The mechanic pictured next to Jaber before he let us feck off on our own with his company's bikes. Jaber gave him a free Frank Thomas jacket courtesy of Whatton at the end of the trip when he came to collect and inspect the damage to his bikes in Kalka. It ******* buried him!
We soon wished we had taken him with us.
Jaber came through though, on time every time as the top Enfield officianado fixing all the groups problems.
Roads were non existent in some places and tight in others with some very near misses for several of us.
We filmed all our own stunts at some hectic speeds while avoiding everything you can think of and more on the roads. The continual blasting of horns is mandatory and whilst it's no guarantee it's the only hope you have.
Andy Green had the camera but not the map, however, even though he had'nt got a clue where he was going he always did it flat out.
As i said, we filmed our own stunts. Eamon threw his down the road after hitting rocks and losing the steering, it did bend the crank but they straightened it with a lump hammer!
Then we threw all 7 over a ravine, here's mine on it's way to the promised land.
We gatecrashed a wedding and tested some tasty morsels.
Then Jaber got sick, but this was due to altitude sickness on more than one occasion.
We met the rider of this HPN prep'd 100PD in Manali who had ridden from Germany. His TT panniers looked wrecked so i gave him Verns details.
Before we knew it we were back in Shimla where we started and on the last day with the bikes we rode down to Kalka to hand them back. In total some 15 hrs of video footage was shot and all being well there will be a DVD out in time for xmas.
Fantastic once in a life time trip and as for Royal Enfields, i want one! Hope you enjoyed living a tiny piece of it Jaber and Phil.
, and I'd like to echo Mikes' comment, any pics of you suspended over the ravine
