Tag Archive | coast to coast
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 Final Review
So its over, three months of planning and its over in three days. Was it hard work ? Not as bad as I thought it would be, back in the days when I used to do some of this stuff more frequently it was climbing the hills that really did me in, this time, eleven [...]
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 [...]
C2C – A Review – The First Day
The descent down to Bassenthwaite Lake And so we left the lighthouse-in-disguise behind and began our great adventure, five of us mounted up for this stage, two in the van, poor old Arthur the lawyer having dropped out of the trip at the very last minute due to the, quite frankly poor, excuse of being [...]
C2C – A Review – It Starts
By 9am we were all packed into the Transit van and Kevs car and away we zoomed, hail and hearty, up for two and a half days of riding a bike across the width of England, and it was raining too. We were meeting up with Rod the medic in Skipton and it was while [...]
