2016 Annual Meeting Netherlands (Nieuwegein, Province of Utrecht) - Page 3

**eskatee** · #21 10-31-2016, 04:39 PM

The White House

**eskatee** · #22 10-31-2016, 04:48 PM

And now for the big one, one of the finest models ever seen. It is only paper, therefore, one does not need to be a rocket scientist to build a Saturn V. A few Tools. Glue. Willpower.

Incredible

**eskatee** · #23 11-03-2016, 01:45 AM

Scaldis Publishers also started to sell their issues here, you can help them also by buying books from this page:

Boekwinkeltjes.nl - Boeken zoeken: scaldis

**eskatee** · #24 11-04-2016, 03:55 AM

Next, also here Scaldis is offering its products

http://www.marktplaats.nl/verkopers/8378602.html

**mbauer** · #25 11-04-2016, 08:32 AM

Wow, thanks for sharing your photos! Looks like you had a great reason for your bike ride!

Mountain bike or road?

Mike

**eskatee** · #26 11-09-2016, 04:18 AM

I will take some pictures to show my donkey

**eskatee** · #27 11-09-2016, 05:37 AM

The bike was made in Heerenveen, Province of Friesland, the bilangual province (by law). A Batavus Apache, 3(front), 7 gears, from the mid-Nineties, bought secondhand for FL 600,00 (270 Euro) more than 25 years ago. Maintenance cost approx. average monthly 7 Euro.

Maintenance at ¨Rijwielhandel Van Hoeijen¨, Amersfoort, a shop founded in the early Fifties by a former mechanic at the ¨Tour de France¨, Mr Henk van Hoeijen. It is a family business, now the third generation at large. Also providing bikes for rent (tourism), building specials.

Customized: steer, bags, Tyres: Schwalbe from Germany.

Bags, standard with some load to provide torque, providing kinetic energy for lots of time to have a smooth gear change and not loosing speed.
Picking up speed very fast is possible in this way. Regular sequence:
low -3rd gear, low- 4th gear, middle-4th gear, high- 4th gear, high- 5th gear and-so-on.

Right bag: first aid kit, 2 litres of water (standing up, front: right corners are shorter), bag with stuff. The old jacket is there providing comfort for my bottoms when having a rest on surfaces such as concrete, steel, et cetera

. Also nice canvas when water drops from the skies are wetting everything. In woodland it appears to be an advantage to look a bit like forest. Yellow and blue is providing safety in matters of visibility for other bikers, especially those with a handicap in eyesight (colour blindness, tunnelvision). Also my patrol colours in days gone by as a boyscout.

Left bag: standard heavy duty chain, laying on the bottom. Steering coming out of a corner becomes in this way, when power is being put on the pedals, an additional power providing speed.