04.23.08
Posted in General at 21:43 pm by Guy
Bruce and Carrie bought themselves a tandem bike a while ago and have been training furiously since getting married in November last year. Well, I say, ‘furiously’, perhaps not by king Armstrong’s standards but anyone who does 40 - 60 kms at 6 O’clock in the morning is training furiously as far as I am concerned.
I took my GPS watch back to SA for our holiday, and we managed to record 2 rides. Bruce and Carrie took the bike out Monday morning and did 25 miles (40km), and then Bruce and I completed a more modest 20km on the Wednesday. Even at 8 O’clock in the morning the temperature was pushing late seventies in Fahrenheit (25 Celsius), and I was pushing some bead doing 20-odd km’s in 51 minutes.
A mountain bike tandem is not the most stable piece of apparatus doing 80km/hr down Umhlanga Rocks Drive carrying 200kg! I struggled through physics first year, but no doubt there is a clever engineer out there (Emslie?) who could calculate our momentum, and how far we would have flown if stopped in our tracks??
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04.19.08
Posted in General at 13:20 pm by Guy
Congratulations to Fridge and Claudette, who got married on Saturday the 29th March 2008 down the south coast of Natal. Fridge has sent a link with Photo’s from Jono Nienaber - check them out here.
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Posted in General at 12:33 pm by Guy
It has been nearly 2 months since I wrote on this blog, and I hope that the chateautoby faithful have not deserted me. Time has been precious recently. But we are back, Mr and Mrs Laister, and I will hopefully have more time moving forward. The company is thriving, we are finally settling into our house and now happily married.
I will document our journey from the end of February, through preparations for the wedding, The wedding itself in the Natal Midlands, the honeymoon in the Maldives and Dubai, and playing catch-up since arriving back. There will be some bad press for various furniture delivery companies as well!!
In the meantime, Roger has sent some photo’s so I have supplemented the Budapest collection.
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