Tuesday 12 June 2012

Sweden's beautiful but has been tough going......We arrived in Trollhatten on Friday and made camp......That night however it rained hard.....very hard.....Saturday I couldn't get the bike started.....I assumed I'd flooded the engine and slowly flattened the battery trying to get it going.....I changed the spark plug at which point I realised I wasn't getting a spark to the engine.....After some referral on the MT Riders site, I discovered the problem lay in the Kill Switch....Rain having got in and done some damage.....Saturday was mainly spent trying to find some WD40 in town, We also managed to see the waterfalls which are turned on at 3pm on a Saturday which were very spectacular......With the bike going, we discovered some further electrical problems ie no indicators or horn......which we can live with for the time being on the E45 in Sweden!......just one  long winding forest road with little traffic......Sunday's mechanical problems were added to by us riding in driving rain......Just as we thought our day was over, we found a campsite which resembled an overspill of Dale Farm so I suggested we look elsewhere.....As we were leaving we realised the back tyre had a puncture so the next two hours were spent roadside, fitting the spare inner!!....At last we found a campsite next to a beautiful lake and made camp.....We are now in Mora....just 600 miles of roads to the Arctic Circle, currently the only residents in a motorcycle camp site....We're taking 2 days in a chalet to rest after 9 nights under canvas....Having a matress was bliss!!!......

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