Archives for July 2007 - Guzzigalore - Paul van Hooff on his Moto Guzzi

Death road

13 Jul '07 - 02:53 | Wow, 98 comments already

The panty chronicles

It takes pantyhose to keep my Guzzi rolling. The good thing about panties is that women legs fit into it. Another pro is the elasticity of the material. The V-belt of the Guzzi was torn to pieces, the one I bought in Cusco, Peru. Didn’t last long. It brought me to Copacabana, near the border of Peru, no further. I arrived there after a frantic ride on the Altiplano. With no V-belt the battery doesn’t charge as you know and the battery died on me at eight o clock in the evening at an altitude of 4000 meters, when there was nobody around but some lost donkeys and stray dogs sniffing on this stranger. It was cold, dark. Obviously I felt alone. Started to wonder. It can be freezing cold up here at night Don Pablo. I had no sleeping bag. The tent I gave away to friends in Quito. No light or whatsoever. And just one cigarette.

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05 Jul '07 - 22:11 | Wow, 22 comments already

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Paul van Hooff, a dutch journalist, is riding his 30 year old Moto Guzzi from the tip of Alaska to the tip of Terra del Fuego. On guzzigalore.nl he writes about his adventures, in English and in Dutch.
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