|
Temperature rising steadily as we travelled south, so we were glad to turn on the air conditioning, which in Britain is normally switched off as an unnecessary way to use more fuel. Arrived and welcomed to our B&B a couple of kms outside Sault. Unpacked and assembled the trike, watched by Corinne, our landlady, and her mother sitting on the garden bench, who considered our machine and its preparation great mid-afternoon entertainment. Sometimes the S&S couplings, which join the frame tubes, fit together easily and quickly and sometimes they don’t and one is left struggling to keep everything aligned. Needless to say, having an audience meant that today it was the latter. Once all bits were assembled and all cables were joined, John took the trike for a short gear changing test and adjustment, then we carried it across the road and stowed it in an old stone outbuilding alongside an interesting vintage vehicle, which looked as though it had not been disturbed for the last 50 years. Motored into Sault for dinner and a wander around the town. Not too many, but some thing come up so often in the course of our cycle touring that it is not worth writing them out in full each time: |