What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[Jean Mercier]

Folding bicycle

You got it, you win the prize, problem: didn't think about a prize... when we meet each other 6 Belgian

 

[Highwayman]

Today, nothing ...
Bicycle to railway station, train to Antwerp, first assignment but canceled, now sitting in train to Brussels for second assignment, then train back home (Ghent region), bicycle to home, and in the afternoon or evening ...
Dye the hair of my wife (hate that)
And then the nicer part, already partially done, continue to pack my car:
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Because tomorrow I take the road to Hungary to visit my youngest son, spouse and granddaughter.

About 1400 km one way on my own (my partner still works, till May 31). Will take motorways and main roads to be there on Saturday.
Will take the road back home next Wednesday avoiding all motorways to be back on May 31. I hope to find some nice tracks to test the capabilities of the car.

I promise to post feedback, positive and negative, but perhaps not every day.

Question: what's the yellow stuff in my trunk?

It’s a Brompton

 

[Jean Mercier]

It’s a Brompton

In fact, it is brand new, newer than the Grenadier.

I bought it for several reasons:

• I can't park my car in most underground parkings anymore, therefore having a foldable bike can help me to park my car at some distance and arriving on time.
• I often take the train to go to appointments unless it's to much of a hassle or to far away from a railway station, therefore the bicycle will make me more flexible
• In some countries there is zero tolerance concerning alcohol when you drive. Even when I am camping I often like to drive to go to a restaurant to eat well and drink some glass of wine or beer ... now I can do it with the bicycle

I would have liked another colour, green for instance, but this yellow one was available at once.

 

[Highwayman]

In fact, it is brand new, newer than the Grenadier.

I bought it for several reasons:

• I can't park my car in most underground parkings anymore, therefore having a foldable bike can help me to park my car at some distance and arriving on time.
• I often take the train to go to appointments unless it's to much of a hassle or to far away from a railway station, therefore the bicycle will make me more flexible
• In some countries there is zero tolerance concerning alcohol when you drive. Even when I am camping I often like to drive to go to a restaurant to eat well and drink some glass of wine or beer ... now I can do it with the bicycle

I would have liked another colour, green for instance, but this yellow one was available at once.

I recognised the folding hinge!

I used one to commute across London for a number of years

Have fun

 

[Ever Pragmatic]

It fits, it actually fits….

We built this shed last year to accommodate the Gren but the car height exceed the tolerance we built in to the door….! In short, there was absolutely no spare wriggle room to get it inside and the roof bars rubbed against the roller shutter door shrouds…. It only just touches and “brushed the dust” off the bars. No damage to the Gren or structure.. Huge relief as it was going to be a case of getting the disk cutter to cut two channels in to the concrete floor.. That would have been a right faff and a total bodge job.

I’m going to get a brace of 56 lb weights and put them in the back prior to shed entry and that’ll give me the .5mm reduction in ride height to prevent any contact..

 

[acwiltshire]

Not much to go on Jean, is it the middle part of a massive Belgian flag and you will fly it from the Gren whenever you camp?

Pvc sheet to stop the water getting in your safari roof

 

[AnD3rew]

I bought it for several reasons:
In some countries there is zero tolerance concerning alcohol when you drive. Even when I am camping I often like to drive to go to a restaurant to eat well and drink some glass of wine or beer ... now I can do it with the bicycle

They will do you for DUI on a bicycle here, classed as a vehicle and same penalties

 

[Rab]

You got it, you win the prize, problem: didn't think about a prize... when we meet each other 6 Belgian

We can exchange Jean, I enjoy home brewing, but after 6 “Badger Juice” you won’t be in control of you legs never mind a bicycle.

 

[Shaky]

They will do you for DUI on a bicycle here, classed as a vehicle and same penalties

No way.

The UK has a similar offence but it certainly doesn’t have the same penalties.

 

[ECrider]

We can exchange Jean, I enjoy home brewing, but after 6 “Badger Juice” you won’t be in control of you legs never mind a bicycle. View attachment 7812334

'Badger Juice' - brilliant.

Hope has sufficient ABV to kill any TB!

 

[Rab]

'Badger Juice' - brilliant.

Hope has sufficient ABV to kill any TB!

Nope, only kills self control and any verbal filters get a proper de-cat ! According to a friend who drinks it.

 

[Krabby]

It fits, it actually fits….

We built this shed last year to accommodate the Gren but the car height exceed the tolerance we built in to the door….! In short, there was absolutely no spare wriggle room to get it inside and the roof bars rubbed against the roller shutter door shrouds…. It only just touches and “brushed the dust” off the bars. No damage to the Gren or structure.. Huge relief as it was going to be a case of getting the disk cutter to cut two channels in to the concrete floor.. That would have been a right faff and a total bodge job.

I’m going to get a brace of 56 lb weights and put them in the back prior to shed entry and that’ll give me the .5mm reduction in ride height to prevent any contact..

 

[emax]

I would have liked another colour, green for instance, but this yellow one was available at once.

Yellow is HiViz. Best choice imho.

Is it an electric one? They cost just a bit above 4K Euro ...

I know a private pilot which has one in his Cessna, You're otherwise stuck at the airfield.

 

[Jean Mercier]

Is it an electric one?

Do you really think I am old?

 

[Jean Mercier]

First day driving to Hungary. Started with PDC error. Stopped the car after 3 km and did a cold start again. No warning anymore.

Once in the Walloon part of Belgium I switched from Flemish radio to mp3 on my cell phone.

And then weird, in Luxemburg my phone disconnected several times. Why? Cable not well connected? Phone getting hot? Change of operator? Had to stop several times. And reconnect the USB cable (Android phone).

Drove about 900 km, at maximum speed of 120 km/h, Waze speed, that means 125 km/h on the Grenadier screen. Often with cruise control. Mainly in Germany (Small very short exceptions on speed).

Arrived now in Czechia and am at a camping place, and tried my bicycle too. And will use an inflatable mattress, also new, yes I am getting old. I always used to sleep on a Karriemat.

I will also have electric light in my tent, coming from the roof connector of the car, switch EXT3. A luxury, I always used candles in the past.

 

[Adventures]

First day driving to Hungary. Started with PDC error. Stopped the car after 3 km and did a cold start again. No warning anymore.

Once in the Walloon part of Belgium I switched from Flemish radio to mp3 on my cell phone.

And then weird, in Luxemburg my phone disconnected several times. Why? Cable not well connected? Phone getting hot? Change of operator? Had to stop several times. And reconnect the USB cable (Android phone).

Drove about 900 km, at maximum speed of 120 km/h, Waze speed, that means 125 km/h on the Grenadier screen. Often with cruise control. Mainly in Germany (Small very short exceptions on speed).

Arrived now in Czechia and am at a camping place, and tried my bicycle too. And will use an inflatable mattress, also new, yes I am getting old. I always used to sleep on a Karriemat.

I will also have electric light in my tent, coming from the roof connector of the car, switch EXT3. A luxury, I always used candles in the past.

Today first time in an offroadpark (Langenaltheim, Bavaria, Germany), first time I have to use the rear diff lock ;-)

 

[Jeremy996]

Today I went to the dentist and then to the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall, London Colney, St Albans, so 96 miles there and 96 miles back. Grenadier was fine. The Morgan owners, (it was a Morgan owners WhatApp group visit), gave me grief about not being in the Morgan, then decided that the Grenadier was rarer then Morgans and had a good look around.

Took a picture at the weekend that shows how much bigger the Grenadier is compared to the old Defender. My LR90 is now back on the road and will be prepared for selling; I was quite startled just how crude it felt after driving the Grenadier for a bit, so the brief pang to keep it was brief!

I loved the De Havilland Aircraft Museum; it's not very big, but they had three Mosquitos and I love them!

 

[DaveB]

Do you really think I am old?

If that's your current picture.......winter is coming John Snow

 

[emax]

And will use an inflatable mattress, also new, yes I am getting old. I always used to sleep on a Karriemat.

I will also have electric light in my tent, coming from the roof connector of the car, switch EXT3. A luxury, I always used candles in the past.

Sounds a bit like a Grenadier would age you faster ....

 

[bigleonski]

Because I don’t have my IG yet, I’ve had to be content with helping my neighbour sail his catamaran from the Gold Coast to Yeppoon in central Qld.
We will be gone for about 8-9 days and the weather promises to be sensational.
I’ll have reception from time to time along the way, so look forward to seeing who else has received their IG and taken it for a drive.
@DaveB we’ll be sailing past your place around Monday so will wave on the way past.