Better get a real fat piggy then. They don't come cheap!

I havent seen it yet. I am in Prague (Wohoo- what a place) and my copy is in Scotland. I asked Alun to send me an electronic copy of the finished write up but nothing so far. I did not even know it had been published.

Kostnice. Well worth the visit, but not obvious to find.

Found it.....

Have bike will travel. Thanks Guys.

I'll post a couple of piccys when I get back.

Kostnice Church of Bones
 

As promised in my previous post...The Church of bones.

This Church was surreal. The walls and ceiling were adorned with the bones and skulls of up to 40,000 people. On top of this in each of the 4 corners of the church were a pile of bones neatly stacked that filled in total about half of the floor space. Most of the bones, 3/4, are the legacy of the bubonic plague, the remainder from battles. (There was a cabinet which had skulls with holes in them, showing different types of weapon marks). It was a very humbling visit.
The decoration is the idea of a half blind monk who took as many of the bones, initially piled up outside the church, inside, and made the “decorations”, he then piled as many as possible into the 4 “shrines” in the corners and buried the rest in the churchyard outside.


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The church with an immaculate graveyard - as they all are in this area.


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Part of a family crest made of bones. Depicts a crow picking out a Turks eye after after a victorious battle to oust them.

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In the 4 corners were huge piles of bones organised into the shape of bells. This was the centrepeice.

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A chandalier made from all the bones fron the body.

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These decorated the corner walls.

I second that.

One year on...
 

I have had the bike for just over a year now and I am more impressed than I was at first. Having covered 6000miles the engine has loostened up and I went the the HU meet at Ripley over the weekend and decided to check my consumption. 53mpg over 450 miles. 75% motorway and the remainder in the Yorkshire dales and B roads. All the time, driving at the same speed as most of the other traffic - as you would likely do when touring. The bike was loaded with camping gear, panniers etc.
I was also getting 200 miles before reserve

The only problems I have had are the rusty spokes (replaced with stainless) and the trip reset button (clocks replaced under warranty).

I have been riding on TCK80s all the time. These tyres also spent 1000miles on my previous BMW. I am going to change the rear later today. I fancy testing out the middle of nowhere tyre changing method to see how easy it is to break the bead with the bike. I'll get back to you on that.

The crash bars and sump guard have had a test. I hit the sump guard on the same rock that wrecked my old Yamaha one and the SW-Motech one is fine. My crash bars work fine. I dropped it trying to ride over another large boulder and I just rolled away from the bike without getting my leg caught and there was no damage to the bike whatsoever. The only bad bit was that Karen was also out playing on the quad and witnessed my embarrassment.:happy8:

Here's a bit more ->

http://www.smokingtailpipes.com/Vide...8-Kostnice.wmv


Took this in 2008, not really Peter Jackson, but I had a go!

Ray - only 6k miles ?? That seams a little lite given the traveling you have been doing......

Dont forgert, it hangs off the back of the motohome for the long journeys and gets used for the interesting stuff when the MH is parked up somewhere nice. We have done 21000 miles in both vehicles in the last 12 months.

Sadly, I am taking it to the HUMM next week but after that it will probably not be used for a year or so. We have bought a landrover to take to Africa as the boss (understandably) wants to spend a long time in the game reserves and you cannot take a bike in them.

The MH is up for sale and we will be moving into the landrover roof tent. Talk about one extreme to the other. Now we really will be camping. Its OK for me but Karen has got a serious learning curve ahead of her !

Sounds interesting. Hope you'll be keeping us updated, even though it's not bike related.