Tag Archive | coast to coast bike ride
The Old Gits Bike Ride, day three
Another hearty breakfast awaited us on Sunday morning with kippers for Andy, always a highlight of any bike ride is watching Andy eat his kippers for breakfast just like in the Supertramp song, its a strange tradition but its meaningful for us all, its like watching the last relic of the British Empire right there [...]
Old Gits Bike Ride, day one
There is no doubt that the north east coastline of England is one of the most beautiful in the whole country and fortunately not many people know that fact, so don’t tell anyone ok, lets not spoil it for ourselves. What I didn’t realise until last Friday is that just across the border into Scotland, [...]
C2C – A Review – The Final Day
Ready to Enter Northumberland and still only halfway “The worst is over” I assured the boys over one of mad Hellens breakfasts the next morning, “there’s one more hill then its all downhill today lads” I assured them. How wrong I was, how the guide book lied to me. Turning left out of mad Hellens [...]
C2C – A Review – The Second Day
9am in the hotel car park, Blencathra beckons Day Two – Hellday, the day when a 2000 foot climb was waiting and everyone was desperately trying to get a peek at the route map to pick their ideal spot to pick up a minor injury, thus causing their withdrawal at the foot of Hartside, someone [...]
Meet the C2C Fools – Rodney
Look what happens when you reach “middle age”, see how the waist expands, see how the hair receeds, see how the hangdog expression remains long after you intended it to leave ? It happens to us all, Don Mclean can still sing his own superb lyrics though. But todays post has a dual purpose, for [...]
The blagging starts here…
Unashamedly I am on the scrounge. This summer, on the weekend of 17th to19th July to be precise, I and eight other 52 year olds like me will be riding the 147 mile Coast to Coast cycle route from Workington to Sunderland, Irish Sea to North Sea, on bikes of course, I’m sure you’d already [...]
Video Saturday – The Hollies
The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy (He’s My Brother), but the video message is more important this week. This video shows the journey that some random lads took, doesn’t matter who they are or which charity they supported, what matters is the route – the Coast to Coast Cycle Ride – C2C web site right [...]
