Mileage update after Day 7

Todays mileage : 30 miles
Total mileage : 1290 miles

Dinner in the Shed

When we got back to Santa Fe we started to look for somewhere to have dinner, when we stumbled upon "The Shed" we just had to go in. Anyone on blatchat will understand.

Our fellow tourers

Stephen Davies and his wife Jenny in their WCM Ultralite with Honda S2000 power

A climb before dinner

A few of us decided to head out in the cars this evening before dinner, we took a drive up the fantastic Santa Fe National Forest Scenic Drive which is a reasonably fast, constantly twisting, 3500ft climb. As it rises quite quickly it was easy to feel how the altitude was impacting on the horsepower, I'm certainly gld we have the baro sensor fitted to the ECU. As always we arrived a bit early for sunset but managed to find enough chat to keep us there to savour the moment.

Mike Biddle joins the party

After some delays at customs Mike's Caterham with RST V8 engine turned up today. It's a car we all know about but for most of us it was the first time we had seen it in the flesh. The installation of the V8 bike engine is amazing, even the plumbing was immaculate. I look forward to hearing it and watching it disappear up the road in front of me.

Relaxing in Santa Fe

Today we took a stroll around the town centre and helped a few people out with their repairs, well stood around and offered support. Santa Fe has a distinct character, in fact we have really enjoyed all of New Mexico for its distinctive character.

A day of fettling

Woke up this morning, had a relaxed breakfast and strolled out into the carpark to find all manner of chaos, people fettling here there and everywhere, some much more serious than others. There were the usual issues with overheating and poor electrical connections but Steve Wiseman had encountered something slightly more serious. It seems he had picked up a batch of dodgy fuel yesterday which spells trouble in his cossie turbo. The poor fuel led to detonation and suspected damage to the head.......as you can see above though it wasn't going to stop him hitting the road tomorrow.