It was a very nice ride. I enjoy the rolling hills.

Nice you were able to get in somewhere!

Great views!

What a beautiful ride!

It sure was it as so relaxing and enjoyable riding in the park.

Thanks Marjory, it was a beautiful deck to relax on enjoying a drink.

Same as always. We make a route in Ride With GPS (the route planning section) and once happy with it, export the GPX track to our trusty Pocket Earth app. We then just use Pocket Earth as a map with our route plotted on it. We have all the base maps (including tops) for everywhere we’re going downloaded on our phones.
I should also add in the ‘same as always’ vein, we often just simply copy other CB’ers routes (not as much for this tour compared with 2023)

Yep, we’ll sneak one in every couple of days just to reassure people

First time we’ve been this conspicuous. They’ve ’worked out’ for us a couple of times already too.

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Fixed frame, that’s brave!our tandem has S&S couplers and for several trips we broke it down into the S&S suitcases. What a science project! Near complete disassembly of the bike. Later we learned to just undo the couplers -all of them on the tubes in the stoker frame section, - and the bike then fit into a regular cardboard bike box with no problem. Lots of bubble wrap still deployed though.

I know I typed K but damned auto correct changed K to I. It was 6 in the morning and I didn’t catch it! She gets the photo credit

Hi Mike,
No problem asking ‘bike questions’
Mannmade is Graham Mann with some ongoing support from Dale Marchand (who started Rollindale bikes about a decade ago). Both very small and very bespoke operations that are now merged into one. Bikes are built ‘one at a time’, or in our case 2 since K and I are so close in size that the frames are identical with slight individual tweaks in stems and seat dimensions.
When designing the bikes, we literally sat down (well mostly zoom but a few face to face meetings - he’s in Edmonton area about 400 km’s from us) for several months and went over every detail of the design.
These bikes were to replace our Tout Terrain Silk Roads that we got in 2015 (which are still perfectly great touring bikes, but, well, you know… that classic n+1 thing with bikes)
Anyway, the current bikes are very similar to our Silk roads in dimensions and function, and the steerer stop was one of the key little, but important little things we wanted on the bikes. They were designed and machined by Graham after seeing what we had on our silk roads. He also custom anodized them (purple for K and green for me) to match a few other ‘bling items’ on the bikes.
We’ve got a very custom Bilenkey Tandem that we’ve done quite a bit of touring on so are well aware of some of the issues with loaded Tandems!.
Hope this long winded reply helps.

That auto corrected I. I as in Kirsten took this picture!! Haha. The other truck behind it had newer paint and graphics complete with the ‘Hershey kiss’ emoji.

Thanks for the research. It may be just a Zadar thing. So many places have their own individual little rituals and celebrations wrapped up in some sort of religious cloth. If we were here longer I might dig into it, but we’re off to Pag to discover some of their quirks!