London to Auckland

Today The Ultimate Ride team has proven that should they go bust as ‘cross the world adventurers, they would have a promising future in the trailer modification business.
As Jeremy mentioned in his last blog, our friends from Becton’s Trailers refused to travel a short distance to come and fix our un-roadworthy trailer. In New Zealand and with the right amount of time we would be crying foul using words like Consumer Guarantees Act and threatening commercial ruin for the company in question. Red flags were raised when 5 minutes down the road from the trailer purchase all of the lights fell off the back of the thing. BUT…. we are here in the UK with bigger fish to fry and a countdown of just 4 days to departure.

Within 60 seconds of seeing the long and woeful trailer, Ivan had a blueprint in his mind of how he could change it so Jed and I (which makes us Jedi) were retained as his labourers and away we went unbolting this and that while our project manager attacked things with a grinder.

The remodel took us just 5 or 6 hours and was achieved using only the materials on the existing trailer. The long and short of it is that our long trailer ended up being a much shorter one and it wouldn’t have been too tricky or too unreasonable to expect the manufacturer to be responsible for this. We were sure to remove the Bectons Trailers stickers from our handiwork so that they couldn’t steal any credit that this improvement will surely generate.

Amongst friends Ivan is usually known as Oto , and will probably be referred to as such from this blog on but things might get confusing for you because he has also already collected himself two extra nicknames, “The Transformer” (see trailer pictures) and “That Crazy Croatian” (more evidence later)
With all the excitement of day one at our new trailer building careers, we missed the opportune tide to get the machines in the water for a bit of a play, but we will be setting out tomorrow bound for France on a bit of a test and shakedown (you can watch our progress with the tracker on our site).
We will let you know how it goes!