My Everest, delivered on 24 April last year is in today for its 60K km service. 60,500km on the clock in 16 months, and not a click outside the WA Hermit Kingdom.
It hasn't missed a beat.
In the last 10 weeks, since its last service a tad early prior to the first of three successive trips 'up north', each interspersed with about two weeks at home, I've stacked on about 17K clicks.
Have to love the wide open spaces over here in Paradiso St Marko
(TM).
1:
Brushing Broome to points further N
2:
Covid Revised: Roaming near Rudall River/Karlamilyi National Park
3:
A Western Swing – Wildflowers, Gorges, Coast
For the first two of those trips, I took a second spare. Of course, no tyre issues.
The last one, just completed, which was predominantly on bitumen, I decided to get the drag-inducing second spare off the roof. You guessed it: a punctured tyre on the dirt in Karijini NP. The tyre pressure monitor alerted me, so I didn't have a repeat of last year's little scratch:
I changed the wheel and shot off to Tom Price to get the tyre repaired. It looked like a single small hole in the middle of the tread, so easily plugged.
Errr... not so fast.
The repairer comes back after plugging the initial hole and says there's a second fine hole too close to the first on to properly plug. Oh well, another new tyre.
That was the downside; the upside was that the puncture occurred early enough in the afternoon to get to Tom Price by about 1615h and have it sorted before we left Karijini for Coral Bay next morning.