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In 2013 I worked with Gabe who was going to open new premises for his fledgling company Zen Overland.  He got an old railway goods shed and we spent 3 months doing it up .  Here I am up on the forklift trying to sort out some electrics, not a lot of health & safety going on here ..........

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and Gabe cleaning the flourescent lights...........

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Things are startting to take shape.................

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Gabes XR400 , his supermoto and my KTM950...................

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Gabe on the phone taking orders..................

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and my personal tea mug ...............  :classic_laugh:

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This was at the opening day, Sam Manicon and Graham Field have there backs to me as they set up their stalls..............

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2 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

In 2013 I worked with Gabe who was going to open new premises for his fledgling company Zen Overland.  He got an old railway goods shed and we spent 3 months doing it up .  Here I am up on the forklift trying to sort out some electrics, not a lot of health & safety going on here ..........

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and Gabe cleaning the flourescent lights...........

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Things are startting to take shape.................

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Gabes XR400 , his supermoto and my KTM950...................

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Gabe on the phone taking orders..................

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and my personal tea mug ...............  :classic_laugh:

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This was at the opening day, Sam Manicon and Graham Field have there backs to me as they set up their stalls..............

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Great Bob! How did the business go?

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1 minute ago, XTreme said:

Great Bob! How did the business go?

It turned into a bit of a monster in the end, he didn't want to spend all his time just taking items in and just sending them back out again .  His real love is making one-off parts for overland bikes so he closed it in the end.

He let me go long before the end which pissed me off a bit as he didn't really give me a reason.  I still sold some stuff for him on a casual basis about a year after but I haven't seen him for a long time now.  He's a really nice guy, a good engineer and an ace rider but I've no idea what he's up to now as I don't do any social media.

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8 hours ago, boboneleg said:

It turned into a bit of a monster in the end, he didn't want to spend all his time just taking items in and just sending them back out again .  His real love is making one-off parts for overland bikes so he closed it in the end.

He let me go long before the end which pissed me off a bit as he didn't really give me a reason.  I still sold some stuff for him on a casual basis about a year after but I haven't seen him for a long time now.  He's a really nice guy, a good engineer and an ace rider but I've no idea what he's up to now as I don't do any social media.

If he's Gabriel Bolton from Wells he's still about.

Still riding bikes and shows his worK as Zen Overland.

Looks like he tried to do a DIY site on Wix.......http://www.zenoverland.com/

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2 hours ago, XTreme said:

If he's Gabriel Bolton from Wells he's still about.

Still riding bikes and shows his worK as Zen Overland.

Looks like he tried to do a DIY site on Wix.......http://www.zenoverland.com/

Yes, that's the guy, perhaps he's just bought the domain name ?

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8 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Yes, that's the guy, perhaps he's just bought the domain name ?

No.....he's owned it for 11 years: https://www.whois.com/whois/zenoverland.com

So like most setups in this market sector it's going nowhere fast. Virtually all the Adv writers/adventurers/tour companies have lacklustre home made sites.

The only one I've ever seen that I'd class as professional and fit for purpose is Rawhyde.

 

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