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theflatboy
Dammit
I was made redundant on the 1st of February this year, with 30 days gardening leave for my notice period, giving me a final working day of the 1st of March. Somewhat inconveniently my employer, despite making me redundant, refused to consider releasing me from the non-compete clause in my contract - which gave me a first possible start date of 1st (well, probably 2nd) of September. My visa requires a certain salary level - which is frankly unavailable working out of the sector I've been in for the past 15 years, so this effectively means I can't start my next job during the six month period.
Presented with lemons I decided to try to make lemonade, which for me meant spending a month or so riding my mountain bike in the Alps, but in a way that considered my lack of income/reliance on savings.
This means putting this (without bag):
On this:
And because no roof box that I could find online is narrow enough to fit on the roof bars alongside a Thule UpRide 599, pressing a Peli 1740 into service as a roof box:
Which has the aerodynamics of a 1980's Volvo, but is hopefully also equally robust.