The Iron Heart Forum Triangle of Terror Type III Trucker Tour 2018 - Updates thread

Alex

This just turned up. Thanks, Gav (No thanks for the packing peanuts, though ).

Giles is fekking off fishing again this week, so I will do the first south coast based stint before I shoot abroad for Christmas.

I am not sure if the letter for Flo was meant to continue round the world, in any case I can't understand it!

Alex

Some of you are pretty familiar with Gosport, but I moved to the good side of the water about 4 or 5 years ago, so catch the ferry each way every day. This is the view back home in the evenings at the moment.

A quick fit pic still with cycling shorts, will do better pics tomorrow.

Tonight I am cooking some Korean cauliflower rice for me & my flat mate:

And washing it down with one of these:

That's about as exciting as a Monday night round here gets!

neph93

Looks like a pretty good Monday to me. How are the temps going to be in P’mouth? Ok to wear the jacket?

Chap

Burj al Gosport? Have a great evening @Alex

Seul

How was that Verdant collab?..

Matty123

That’s a healthy meal Alex. You have Recipe for that? If it’s no trouble

Alex

The beer was good mate. A friend bought a couple round at the weekend. Still got one left if you want to try it? Matty, sure I will send it to you.

@neph93 getting cold, but I have room to layer underneath it so we'll be fine.

My weekdays start with a chilly bike ride down to the seafront where my gym is. As some of you may know if you follow me on IG my bike recently got stolen outside the gym, so I have just upgraded both my wheels and my locks.
Better picture of the bike to come when there is some light.

Tour jacket hiding under the layers there somewhere.

Alex

For those of you who still have hair, which rules out most of our older members (time served rather than actual age!) we are going to start stocking Wolfman hair products. He runs one of the best barber shops in the world based in Shibuya. I will dig out the article about them and some backstory later on…

den1mhead

^ Great idea

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Alex

My view for breakfast every morning:

It's usually a pretty straight forward journey (about 90 seconds), but this morning this bunkering vessel needed to refuel the hulk moorings, where to Wightlink ferries that go from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight refuel, so we went on a slightly scenic route and I grabbed a couple of pics of the harbour for those who have not made it down here yet.

The offending vessel:

Hulk Moorings

HMS Warrior

Bonus pic for @Chap of Burg al Pompey

Where my old office used to be before Ben Ainslie Racing decided they quite liked the land and kicked us all out to build this warehouse from which they have built their recent Americas Cup challenge.

The land on the horizon through the mouth of the harbour is the Isle of Wight

Alex

And finally, I managed to get a fit pic wearing other normal clothes too! Not the best light, sorry. I did it on self timer before the rest of the guys turned up this morning.

Seul

@Alex:

The beer was good mate. A friend bought a couple round at the weekend. Still got one left if you want to try it?

Many thanks - but I don't fancy IPAs during colder weather…

Matty123

Great start Alex! Hanks again for the recipe!

organisys

Alex

As promised, a better picture of the replacement bike. A Whyte Dorset, which is a little better equipped to year round cycling in the UK than the old Bianchi

I think all of you know what I do at work! The tour jacket is being pretty sedentary this week, with a lot of strategy planning about next year, and a small lull in new products. This is my view for most of the day:

For those of you with an eagle eye, there is a little spoiler somewhere in this photo (hint - it's not the J100) for something next year, though I will not be confirming or denying anything on it currently
Also, for the avoidance of doubt, I am not an SS supporter, I am trying to explain to the Obbi Good Label boys where their choice of lightning bolt design is not the most sensible for the western market ::)

And a little arm crease action to tide you over.

I will ask @Sam to take studio pics of the progress this afternoon…

Alex

Friday night I had a party at my flat, so yesterday was spent entirely on the sofa recovering. I needed some fresh air today, so went for a walk around the sea front this afternoon.

Portsmouths answer to Brighton pier, Clarence pier which bizarrely is not actually a pier.. It used to be home to a very very shit London eye replica, but it was recently decommissioned (read: someone pointed out how dangerous it was to have that sort of structure on a beach that gets winds of up to 100mph in a storm)

A view over the Solent, in the background you can see two of the forts in the solent which are part of the Palmerston Forts. One of them is now a luxury hotel and another (out of shot) is a slightly less luxury hotel.

Portsmouth is home to the last passenger carrying hovercraft in the world:

Alex

The Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Southsea Castle, built in the 1500s by Henry VIII as part of the Device programme, it now houses a brewery and champagne parties in the summer months.

One of the biggest tourist pulls for the town

The view looking back at Gosport from Eastney, the south-eastern most point of Portsea island