Where is Rob?
Date: Jan 11, 2010
We are 82km out of Bangalore but Rob is not. We don't where Rob is, truthfully. Rob, our team mechanic,
stayed with Team Batman whilst they struggled along. Stopped in a town, Team Kiwi drove in with their kiwi flag
flying. We chatted and we all drove off. Team Batman fell behind so we Greg and Nic stopped at the next town to
patriotically fix our Australian flag, if we were to be associating with New Zealanders. Team Batman drove
passed into the town. We drove through, didn't see them, so we carried on and caught up with Team Kiwi. We get
an SMS from Team Batman that they are at a mechanic, so we push on towards Bangalore in hope of finding a Bajaj
mechanic (very rare) or our hotel for the night. At 11:40 we get a message 'We're fixed! On route!' At 12:30,
82km from Bangalore we get a distress message 'Chaps, movement is pretty much not happening for us right now.'
We've still not seen another mechanic or solution. We assume they'll need to get a truck to Bangalore. Lots of
empty ones driving along the freeway. Not sure what else they can do.@
(Received at 07:05)
Less than 1000km to go. We are on the 1250km route from Hyderabad to Cochin. Yesterday we did 300km and
today we've probably done 70km today so we now have only 900km to go! Status update: we're stationary on the
side of the road rebuilding Team Batman's carby. All done now so let's hope all is well.@
(Received at 03:33)
Day 10, Breakdowns 1, 2 and ... We've got long straight roads this morning so Percy, in Team Batman, decided
to let Tom have a drive - for the first time since day 7 when Tom drove into a field. Within 2 minutes Tom had
stopped. We managed to get it going again. A few minutes later it stopped again. It's again on the road. As it
drives along it is spluttering and stalling. Rob has boarded their rick (whilst we're both in motion) to help
figure out what's wrong (ergo figure out what Tom might be doing wrong somehow).
(Received at 03:08)
