Preparation

possible, the WE, we ride so that beginners, Francoise and Laetitia , and the passengers, Guillaume and Sylvain , acquire a little experiment before the first test of this summer: Spain of North, with the foot of the Pyrénées, via Jacca and Pamplona.
I pass to you the falls without gravity of Laetitia and the laughter which followed because they were so stupid.
It is necessary to say that the machine made nevertheless the double of her weight and that she cannot put the feet on ground sitting on the saddle! Then, inevitably, to stop on the roadside inclined a foot in grass, that immediately gives a scooter' lying on the edge, Laetitia at the bottom of the ditch, 4 irons in the air and an uncontrolable laughter for the others!!!
And the ditches, she likes that, i believe: another journey, a small dirt track between the fields. I say to everyone to pass exactly where I pass. To avoid the puddle pools of water to the doubtful depth, I ride a little on grass. Laetitia, which follows me at a few meters, does the same but forgetting "a little". It deviates frankly in more provided grass and disappears completely in the ditch (yes, i do not lie) the head the first in the sludge!
Even not badly!
The rhythm is not very high at the beginning, but good, that will improve... finally I hope, because if not, we are not arrived!

training	small pause	every one is here

June 1999

First preparations of the "great departure".
I manufactured myself a trailer for one of the scooters, mine. I am by far more at ease in control. It is a single-wheel trailer out of aluminum. The first tests of the frame with Laetitia and Sylvain above were conclusive. The idea is good, I make then the box that go above: a few pieces of sheets, a folding machine, rivets, an amount of patience (that in fact of the holes to bore!) and a bottle of Pastis for the friend who gives me hand.
It seems good, even if it is not finished extraordinary at all. I am not a metal worker after all! And then a few pieces of "Scotch tape-aluminum" will hide the small errors.
The only problem is that there is place inside!! Then we fill it up with all sorts things: the tent, the sleeping bags, the kitchen ustensils, canned food. It enters while packing a little, but the weight increase hardly! The trailer should not exceed the lawful 80Kg and is not far from... the 120kg!! never mind, we will see...
The first tests "for truth" show in fact that it is necessary to lead with the buttocks and not with the handlebar. If your too brutal, the trailer does not hesitate to "answer that it does not agree" and let itself make by suddenly rectifying the scoot in themiddle of the turn! Inevitably the trajectory takes a nasty face and you finds yourself in bulk on the left road which is really not broad whole!! Sweat comes only a few seconds after, by crossing the car which runs in the other direction!!!
"OK, I understood, I don't make it any more, I will be cool with you, promised sworn!!"
(I understand now why trailer is a female name!! (in french !)
Once tamed, this trailer proves very practical. And in more, that make all the passers do cervical gym. Imagine a little the look not banal of such a crew. And the pride which goes with, it is not bad either!
Fortunately, I have a helmet which prevents my head from inflating.

Françoise and Guillaume	small pause	Me et Miss THE trailer

Next step : summer 1999

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