If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun
, speaks the Dalai Lama from Tibet, where Lhasa is located, and from there in 1987 Heckmair Andi cycled to Kathmandu in Nepal.
First of all, that has as much to do with the content of the article as the EU's vaccine procurement with good government, but in any case, the Heckmair Andi's bike came from Centurion, and the company launched the expedition vehicle in 1988 for normal customers, who were back then 1695 DM left.
I didn't have it, but I would have liked to have it, and when a 1988 Centurion Lhasa Kathmandu was available for 35 euros in nearby Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm a few weeks ago, I wrote to the seller and made an appointment.
The address was in a typical new district of the 90s, when Pfohoafa - that's how we pronounce it - was still a sleepy provincial nest and not, as it is today, a newly discovered and developed suburb of Munich.
The bike came from a separate garage, big enough for three cars, with a lush forecourt, and behind it was an even more lush house that was far too expansive for the small property - an estimated 250 m² of living space on three levels and 400 m² of land.
The architecture combined some stylistic features, none of which are adorned with this earth, and this was certainly due to the local building regulations, which wanted to have just such blocks at that time.
The salesman was overweight, smoker, and practiced a profession that practically does not exist in the media: he was a bricklayer.