Photos 1. A Puffin Bird a real hard case bird
2. Coffee time on the road , a bus pulled up and about 10 Kiwis jumped out and 1 was from Tauranga, then a couple from Texas pulled up and invited us to come stay with them when we get down that way . We have met so many nice people and it is only a few days . Most come up and say "Yole from New Zealand , I want to go there some day, they say it is really beautiful "
3. Pretty typical of the Mountains all the way to Seward , it was pretty cold until we got to Anchorage (about 20c and sunny)
About 150kms from Seward the front left brake locked , lucky for me John Allen (my mechanical tutor ) had show in me how to bleed the brakes , so with great pride I set about fixing it (much to Ruth's amazement ). So now we are back in Anchorage and are taking the bike to a Suzuki shop in the morning (all part of the adventure ) to try and find why it happened .
Great to hear from you - keep them coming Rog, you could write a book! Looks pretty cold there beautiful scenery. Hope the bike is all good. Did you guys have to buy another ticket out of the States? All good here - enjoying the cold weather too! Love from Doug and Wendy xxx
ReplyDeleteThought I'd just posted comment re brake problem but can't see it...try again. I've been pondering over brake problem. I think theres to much fluid in master cyl. Get Ruth to hold brake lever in while you release the bleeder valve,while lever is still held in,tighten the valve. release lever and repeat this 3 or 4 times until fluid level drops to half way in master cyl. sight glass. Can't see it being anything else. try this before going to Suzuki...good experience. Wish you were on skype this morning but will look this avo when we get home from Leonies. Going there about 11am. Watching MotoGB qualifying,Rossi out there with leg in kevlar.At the moment hes 4th on grid,amazing. take care,talk soon. John
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