hard shell.

it’s the new year and things are moving. maybe on quite as fast as we were hoping they would, but it’s great to see progress. good progress actually. it’s in the nature of things that sometimes it is quite easy to tell that the day we can move in is approaching, and this is certainly…

reincarnation 2.

yesterday the nomad retired and donated her parts to the new bike: the megatower. i’d be the first to admit that that’s probably not a name i would have chosen. i understand that they wanted to make sure people understood that it was a significant improvement to the hightower (again, not a great name, has…

reincarnation 1.

all good things must come to an end; that’s not me being negative, it’s a fact of our physical universe. it really is. the fact that my trusty nomad is being sent off to the big flow trail in the sky – or more likely a wall in my study – has more to do…

reincarnation.

organ donor is such a terrible description of what is about to happen here, even if it is technically correct. after six years it is time for one of the most iconic bikes ever made to be retired: i am about to replace my original 2015 nomad 3, painted in the unmistakable ‘miami vice’ colours,…

roadworks!

initially we only had one single, straight and also super steep road up to the top of the hill, the spot with the great view. steep enough so 2wd cars had a hard time getting to the top. then we located and eventually upgraded a perviously hardly visible goat track that we found sneaking off…

the festive training season.

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it moves (took long enough).

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a fleeting glimpse.

today is one of those rare times, when one can see a thing in the middle of a transformation, from one almost permanent state to another. between those two states another one is revealed, and the only thing that can capture this is a photo. or a drone shot. yesterday the guys removed the scaffolding,…

shades of white.

now all our internal walls are up, and as of this week, finished to near perfection, it is time for some colour. disappointingly perhaps, on most surfaces this colour will be white, which contains, physically, all colours, but could be seen as a bit of a cop out when it comes to design choice. fair…

sea turtles.

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