| Date |
Country |
Problem |
Comments |
| October 08 |
Turkey |
Maintenance only: replacing the rear brake pads of both bikes |
The brake pads made it roughly 4500km (Rita) and 5000km (Christian) in total, not bad!!! |
| 2008-10-28 |
Iran |
first flat tire on Christian's bike |
a small, mean little nail set an end to the 'flat-less' times... While fixing it, the back wheel's skewer brakes and must be replaced with an Iranian model... |
| February 2009 |
Iran |
Maintenace only: we replace the chains after roughly 5000 km |
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| 2009-03-30 |
Turkmenistan |
One of Rita's bottle holder breaks as a result of tieing our bikes onto a truck |
fixed with some wire |
| 2009-04-07 |
Uzbekistan |
crack in Christian's back rim (Mavic EX721) discovered |
we exchange the back wheels, so that the cracky one gets less weight on Ritas bike and hope we can make it like this to Osh, Kyrgyzstan where we know a good bike shop |
| 2009-05-06 |
Kyrgyzzstan |
maintentance only: we replace chains and cassettes with the new ones sent to Osh |
Even though our old chain and cassettes are still more or less fine, we replace them. Sending the new ones we had sent to Osh back home would be almost more expensive than the material itself. The old chains and cassettes we give to Nicolay and his shop OshBikers, we are sure they will still do a good job for many km's! |
| 2009-05-07 |
Kyrgyzstan |
mirror on Christian's bike doesn't survive the game of the kids and breaks... |
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| 2009-05-18 |
Kashgar, China |
more cracks in Christian's back rim found |
In the Giant Shop we find the Sun Rhyno lite rims, the ones we originally wanted on our bikes. So the choice is simple. Only the trust in the spokes "Made in Taiwan" has to be build from scratch as they had to replace the beloved Swiss DT Champions... |
| 2009-05-30 |
Korla, China |
second flat tire on Christian's bike after 8900km |
the enforcement wires in the Chinese truck tires somehow find the way into the tires. Some of them stuck through and made the inner tube leak... |
| 2009-06-05 |
Turpan, China |
first of the 'china spokes' breaks on the not loaded bike during a touristic tour around Turpan |
Replacement done in Turpan. Remains the question if this was just a bad spoke or whether the original spoke job in Kashgar was done badly... |
| 2009-06-18 |
Yumenshi, China |
Rita gets her first flat tire on her back wheel after roughly 10500kms! |
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| 2009-06-22 |
Zhangye, China |
Christian gets his first flat tire on the front wheel after roughly 10600kms! |
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| 2009-06-30 |
Lanzhou, China |
Christan gets another flat tire on the back wheel |
the Schwalbe Marathon XR seem to last for roughly 10000km, then they let go. A great perfomance, congratulations to Schwalbe (we are not sponsored by them!). We hope to make it back home on them anyway. |
| 2009-07-09 |
before Xi'an, China |
the second of the 'China spokes' breaks |
repaired in Xi'an |
| 2009-07-31 |
before Pingyao |
again, two spokes break |
correction of the wheel in Pingyao, hoping that we make it to Beijing with just 30 spokes... |
| 2009-08-02 |
Pingyao |
Maintenance only: replacing the rear brake pads of both bikes and the front pads of Christian's bike |
front pads made it for roughly 14000km, breakpads for roughly 8000km. Great performance! |
| 2009-08-03 |
before Taiyuan |
yet another spoke breaks, we need to fix it |
in a Giant shop in Taiyuan we replace the 3 broken spokes with more bad China-spokes.The work has to done by ourselves, the mechanics there have never replaced spokes it seems... |
| 2009-08-08 |
300km before Beijing |
and another spoke... |
this one we leave, hopefully we find good spokes in Europe again... |
| 2009-08 |
Beijing |
the top part of an Onza Barend of Christian's bike comes off |
Some two-component adhesive fixes the problem easily |
| 2009-09 |
Halle, Germany |
a metallic fixation plate of Christian's front luggage racks breaks |
surprised it made it so long! We find a replacement in a bike shop in Würzburg |
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