No room for watermelons

By Ron & Lynne Fellows Published by High Horse Books Direct sales: ronfellowes@gmail.com ISBN: 978 0646931418 229 pages soft cover Price: $29.95 plus shipping $9.00 Australia $12.00 NZ Most people would think twice about taking a 1910 motorcycle around the block, let alone across the world. Yet in 2012 Ron Fellowes, originally from New Zealand and now retired in Tasmania with his wife Lynne, rode his 1910 four cylinder single-speed F.N. 14,606 km from Kathmandu to Herstal, Belgium, where it was originally built, via such dodgy places as Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, thence through Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and Belgium. He carried only spare fuel and oil, a modest selection of tools and spare parts, used a dozen spark plugs, three rear tyres and broke 120 spokes. Why begin the journey in Nepal? “Because, I will be riding all downhill from here.” Despite the ever-present dangers, Ron pressed on, and reached his destination more on less on schedule. The record of his trip makes very entertaining reading, and the book is contains many very good colour photographs. He signs off with a very apt quote from E. James Rohn. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”