My work with Gabe............

[boboneleg]

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...........

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

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

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

and my personal tea mug ............... 

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

[XTreme]

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...........

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

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

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

and my personal tea mug ............... 

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

Great Bob! How did the business go?

[boboneleg]

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.

[Buckster]

37 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

 

He let me go long before the end which pissed me off a bit as he didn't really give me a reason.  

Image.

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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/

[boboneleg]

9 hours ago, Buckster said:

Image.

Probably , you're onto a winner though as you have the perfect image for a bus driver

[boboneleg]

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 ?

[XTreme]

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.