Netherlands to Tierra del Fuego via Siberia

I came across this site - http://crossingcontinents.objectis.n...x_eng?lang=eng
from a link on the bike builder's site - http://www.m-gineering.nl/articg.htm

It sounds like quite a trip, if he ever manages to finish it! The bike
looks like quite an interesting design, three rims front and back for
the snow/ice and a dual stage drive.

Theo, is he any relation to you? He mentions his mother is a Bekkers.

Graeme

Graeme Dods wrote:
I came across this site - http://crossingcontinents.objectis.n...x_eng?lang=eng
from a link on the bike builder's site - http://www.m-gineering.nl/articg.htm

It sounds like quite a trip, if he ever manages to finish it! The bike
looks like quite an interesting design, three rims front and back for
the snow/ice and a dual stage drive.

Theo, is he any relation to you? He mentions his mother is a Bekkers.

Graeme


The best cycling blog I've come across is this one.
http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Bikepacker/

Friday

Tenuous link to cycling long distances, not only can Ron Barassi walk on
water (ok, Comms Games reference), but he's off to cycle across
Mongolia.

http://tinyurl.com/2fxdvv


--
cfsmtb

Graeme Dods wrote:

I came across this site -
http://crossingcontinents.objectis.n...x_eng?lang=eng from a link
on the bike builder's site - http://www.m-gineering.nl/articg.htm

Theo, is he any relation to you? He mentions his mother is a Bekkers.

His mother is a Bekker. No relation and not the same name. Bekker and
Bekkers are both Southern Dutch names derived from bakker which is the Dutch
word for a baker. So Bekker is to Bekkers as Baker is to Bakers.

Theo

"Graeme Dods" schreef in bericht
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I came across this site -
http://crossingcontinents.objectis.n...x_eng?lang=eng
from a link on the bike builder's site -
http://www.m-gineering.nl/articg.htm

It sounds like quite a trip, if he ever manages to finish it! The bike
looks like quite an interesting design, three rims front and back for
the snow/ice and a dual stage drive.

Theo, is he any relation to you? He mentions his mother is a Bekkers.

Graeme


I think he will finish! Why, i know him and he has put years of preparation
in it. Physical and mental he is oke it is only the bad conditions (read
good when there is to less ice) that can stop him.

He has done training runs in the north of Finland (wintertime -40 clesius)
and is now on his second purpus build bike (first one was not good enough)

Greetings

Olav
(The Netherlands)

Olav & Marianne wrote:
"Graeme Dods" schreef in bericht
oups.com...
I came across this site -
http://crossingcontinents.objectis.n...x_eng?lang=eng
from a link on the bike builder's site -
http://www.m-gineering.nl/articg.htm

It sounds like quite a trip, if he ever manages to finish it! The bike
looks like quite an interesting design, three rims front and back for
the snow/ice and a dual stage drive.

Theo, is he any relation to you? He mentions his mother is a Bekkers.

Graeme


I think he will finish! Why, i know him and he has put years of preparation
in it. Physical and mental he is oke it is only the bad conditions (read
good when there is to less ice) that can stop him.

He has done training runs in the north of Finland (wintertime -40 clesius)
and is now on his second purpus build bike (first one was not good enough)

Greetings

Olav
(The Netherlands)



It looks like he's been having a hard time of it.


Friday

"Friday" schreef in bericht
...
Olav & Marianne wrote:
"Graeme Dods" schreef in bericht
oups.com...
I came across this site -
http://crossingcontinents.objectis.n...x_eng?lang=eng
from a link on the bike builder's site -
http://www.m-gineering.nl/articg.htm

It sounds like quite a trip, if he ever manages to finish it! The bike
looks like quite an interesting design, three rims front and back for
the snow/ice and a dual stage drive.

Theo, is he any relation to you? He mentions his mother is a Bekkers.

Graeme


I think he will finish! Why, i know him and he has put years of
preparation in it. Physical and mental he is oke it is only the bad
conditions (read good when there is to less ice) that can stop him.

He has done training runs in the north of Finland (wintertime -40
clesius) and is now on his second purpus build bike (first one was not
good enough)

Greetings

Olav
(The Netherlands)

It looks like he's been having a hard time of it.


Friday

He has had an hard time, but he will do it some time, i mean it is not his
first attempt crossing frozen water (and won't be his last).
Another Dutchman crossed Greenland http://www.ralphtuijn.nl/expedities.html
just for training to go to the Southpole. To bad it is in Dutch.
It was more pushing than biking ........


Greetings,

Olav
(only biking on bitumen, sand and gravel on an www.vittorio.nl with an
www.rohloff.de axel comming soon)