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The life of my long suffering Orlowski hasn't been any easier since my move to Berlin: it's done 20km daily commute and easily 90% of my training miles and general riding. In near two years it's had a dyno powered front light, few new chains, sprockets and brake blocks but other than that, zero maintenance and it's still trucking on!
I just finished its successor and now I'm not sure what to do with it - don't need it, don't really want to sell it...might post it to my parents to enjoy retirement with them, then I'll always have a bike to ride when I'm visiting them.
With the new build almost done and a sunny 4 day Easter weekend I thought I'd load up the old Orlowski and head out on one last hurrah. Coronavirus measure stated that I couldn't cross state lines but that we were allowed to be "underway by bike" so I made a route just skirting Brandenburgs northern border using forest tracks and forgotten cobblestone roads and headed out. The nights were bitter cold but then days were super clear and sunny. Barely a soul out, just me cruising through the eerie, empty countryside.