New Equipment: Orange (Jaffa) Alpkit Gourdon 20

So i recieved another Orange thing in the post today, an Alpkit Gourdon 20, having only ordered it yesterday. It even came with a handwritten note from Tom thanking me for the order. Here it is, next to a more traditional piece of luggage.


Without having had a real chance to use it (although i did wear it round the house for a few hours today) i can't give any kind of reveiw on the bag yet, but i can at least say why i bought it:
1) It's Orange. (Alpkit's orange colourway is referred to by them as jaffa)
2) It's a dry bag. So it should keep my stuff dry.
3) It has rucksack straps. So its more than just a drybag - i can use it as a daysack while in cities, for example, or for short hikes maybe.
4)It has an elastic accessory cord. I'll be using it as a washing line to dry wet clothes while on the move i think.
5) I like Alpkit. They have one of the most likeable websites that is designed to sell things, and their products all seem to be pretty cheap.

Go check out www.alpkit.com

So, I'll be strapping my little Gourdon on the top of my rear pannier rack, along with another (probably Alpkit) drybag, and they'll both be making my bike that bit more Orange.

Object Orange: Good Orange Art from Detroit.

Object Orange is an art project thought up and done by a few anonymous guys in Detroit, Michigan. It seems that they decided the way to help solve the problem of proliferating amounts of dangerous and unsightly abonded buildings in the city was to paint them Orange. They thought either the buildings will remain where they are but look good, which is good, or they will get noticed and knocked down, which is better. I like them.



In minor news related to my bike trip, I recieved a couple of Orange things for my bike in the post today: some Orange handlebar tape (annoyingly supplied with black tape for the ends) and an Orange car air freshener, which i shall hang somewhere on my dashbourd (handlebars).

Dulux's Let's Colour Project

Until i set off (or at the very least until i get my bike back from the powdercoaters in its fresh coating of orange) i shall have to simply look to other people for some colourful stuff to blog about. This is a project by Dulux to bring more colour to grey urban areas. An admirable effort, and hopefully it will catch on, so that there will be planty of orange walls all around the world for Willam Of to be photographed infront of.



There's a good amount of orange between 0.55 and 1.25.

Check it out in more detail at www.letscolourproject.com

First Post, an Introduction

This blog will be home to all the photographs of my orange bike, William Of, with all the orange things he and and i encounter as we cycle our slow way part way around the world.
This little project sort of serves as a continuation, or rather a reincarnation, of a project i began with one of my other bikes:



I may also use this blog to recount a few of the more colourful adventures we get up to (but a more in depth, journal like account of the trip can be found at www.orangebikeride.wordpress.com).

There may be reference to other people working with orange, or even comments on the nature of other colours, and anything else i think worthy of note.