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Edinburgh couple crossing Australia on Nazca twin recliner

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  • Started 8 years ago by LaidBack
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  1. LaidBack
    Member

    https://rollingrolling.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/caiguna-to-eucla/comment-page-1/#comment-205

    After tandeming across Canada, the Andersons have decided to tackle Australia. (Not our first Nazca customers there as we already have a Fuego owner in Perth.)

    However I reckon crossing huge swathes of Australian desert with a trailer and litres of hydration counts as pretty good for a non commercial (ie sponsored) exploit.
    Follow them and share a journey based on short training runs along Cramond prom (just kidding). Both riders do mountain biking and other 'more standard' bike exploits.
    Powering their road train across a continent is pretty special for us (and worrying sometimes).
    In blog above they meet their first cyclist after 700km on the road.
    This is not LeJoG!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Reminds me of Eneko Extebarrieta and Miyuki Okabe's world tour on their huge Zöhrer recumbent tandem. They started in 2005 on a regular tandem, and upgraded their bike in Rio; Velovision reported on it in March 2008.

    They came home after three years because Miyuki and Eneko made a baby.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. LaidBack
    Member

    I forgot about that. Must have been an early edition of that Zöhrer. Young guy came by shop who was born in Rio and had done a project for him. Maybe another Brazilian bike coming in future Velo Vision.

    Got mileage wrong. Their Quetzal is on
    1,471 km so far.
    They must meet another cyclist before long. That puts cycle use on road to 0.0001% of traffic.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. LaidBack
    Member

    The Anderson's have now knocked off 3690km and are now on Great Ocean Road - soon to be in Melbourne.

    https://rollingrolling.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/

    So can say that they are now my most 'toured' customers and have more experience on the Nazca tandem than I have and possibly the owners of Nazca. The seat support was replaced in Adelaide. Entering that city was an epic for them as they had to try and share the road with loads of car loving Australians. They still haven't met that many cyclists really!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. LaidBack
    Member

    Now arrived in Sydney. Must be Nazca's furthest south bike.
    Ok - they are avoiding the cold here but they did have a monster tandem and trailer to propel all the way from Perth.

    "When we reached the top, after a huge effort, we got stuck into our sandwiches. They were meant for lunch but 10.30am is nearly four hours from breakfast. As we were munching away Susan noticed a flat tyre on the trailer. Ah that was the scuffing noise! The trailer is a real deadweight to pull up any incline and not noticing a flat tyre is probably an indication of how hard it is. You could probably take off both wheels and we would still not notice. Once you get to ‘this is really bl**dy hard’ then there’s nowhere else to go."

    https://rollingrolling.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/

    Clif says the Quetzal was quite frisky once it was unhitched from the trailer!


    Nazca Quetzal 26 in Sydney     by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr

    Posted 8 years ago #

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