So... I cycle 892km from Cardiff 2 Amsterdam 2 London & I actually GAIN a pound. How is that possible?
15 September 2008
I'm home, but the frigging gps tracker didn't record the last 40k from Epping.
15 September 2008
Lunch stop in Epping. Never have I needed calories more.
15 September 2008
That's it. My last energy gel gone. Nothing to eat but roadkill from here onwards.
15 September 2008
Down 2 3 now. Oly took the train from Harwich and Nigel has just good solo.
15 September 2008
My ferry cabin smells rather mysteriously of fried chicken.
14 September 2008
On the ferry and just one very long day of cycling before I'm home.
14 September 2008
And now yo are 5.. We've just been joined by Oly who made his own way to IBC BY bike and is also on his way back.
14 September 2008
Rhys has fallen again! A hard one, this time. He went into the sand at 40kph, squiggled a bit, then hit the pavement.
14 September 2008
Gabriel has just arrived via the airport shuttle, having given up trying to find us by bike.
14 September 2008
Hanging out at the hotel, waiting for Gabriel who is lost, but hopefully still somewhere in Holland.
14 September 2008
It's a gorgeous sunny morning in Amsterdam. The perfect kind of morning for going on a nice long bike ride instead of wandering around a ...
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14 September 2008
Ok, we've arrived. Where are the dancing girls, acrobats, and champagne?
11 September 2008
We r about 2 have lunch in the nicest place we've run across & evil Rhys won't let us have any starters cuz we're on a schedule. May his ...
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11 September 2008
We've stumbled upon a very posh restaurant in the middle of nowhere. It's so posh that none of the other guests are wearing lycra.
11 September 2008
Hookess on houseboats. Interesting.
11 September 2008
Dutch bike shops Rule! Popped in 2 buy a tyre. They gave me 25% off for CIN, & a coffee, & a cool little brass fitting to pump up presta ...
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11 September 2008
I don't feel like such a klutz now as even the great Rhys has tumbled off his bike.
10 September 2008
We're having our 3rd apple pie stop of the day. I suspect the fiendish Dutch of spiking them with some addictive substance in an attemp ...
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10 September 2008
Now I know what happened to the British summer... The fiendish Dutch have stolen it!
10 September 2008
OMG! My cycling shoes stink! It's like I've just pulled them out of the belly of a decomposing buffalo!
10 September 2008
Fiendish Dutch! Pretending it's 7 in the morning when any right-thinking Englishman can plainly see it's only 6.
10 September 2008
We've made it! Coast to Coast across all of England! (and a tiny sliver of Wales)
9 September 2008
It appears the name 'Chris' is cursed. Chris Hulme has just taken a tumble -skidded on a wooden boardwalk in the rain.
9 September 2008
We lost one folding bike at Epping when Wes and his Brompton left us, but we've gained a replacement with gabriel and his Airnimal.
9 September 2008
I can't believe I fell off my bike again! At least I didn't break anything this year...
Yet...
9 September 2008
And then there were ten..,
9 September 2008
I've just read that Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement to win an 8th Tour de France. We must ask him if he'd be interested in j ...
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9 September 2008
Puncture #4 goes to Adrian, his 2nd of the trip.
8 September 2008
The need for shorts has proved powerful enough to warrant a detour.
8 September 2008
Paul may have a yacht, but what he doesn't have is padded shorts, and The only cycle shop in Thame is closed for their annual holiday.
8 September 2008
Paul, sitting in the Pub here in Thame, has just bought a yacht moored 20 mins from Amsterdam. Guess our ride home is sorted.
8 September 2008
We've stopped in Thame for Nurophen and lunch.
8 September 2008
Score! We stopped at a light, little old lady in a taxi next to us, asked what we were doing, I told here we were cycling to Amsterdam & ...
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8 September 2008
Blergh... My legs want to sleep some more.
8 September 2008
We have arrived in Swindon. Praise be to God!
7 September 2008
Last pub stop before Swindon - the 3 cups in Malmesbury. We're in the cool half of the pub with the dreadlocked kerchief-headed youngste ...
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7 September 2008
Well... A new tyre for Adrian and 5 miles later, i blow a tyre.
7 September 2008
Wes just happens to have the phone number of a bike nut who lives in the village we happened to have stopped for lunch in. We're now off ...
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7 September 2008
Lunch stop in Alveston at the Ship Inn which is already advertising their Gala New Year's evening for 2009.
7 September 2008
The tear is getting bigger in Adrian's tyre. He'll be lucky if it lasts until Swindon.
7 September 2008
And the second puncture goes to... Paul!
7 September 2008
And Adrian gets the prize for the first (and loudest) puncture. I thought for a moment he'd been shot. May have something 2 do with the ...
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7 September 2008
I LOVE our team shirts! Thanks Fat Face!
7 September 2008
Wes & I are now at the Cardiff hotel. It's hosting a wedding which reminds me... Forgot to bring ear plugs. Well, if I can't sleep I'll ...
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6 September 2008
Bath looks quite pretty from the train. I wonder if we go through it on the bikes. One of these years I should really look at the route ...
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6 September 2008
I wonder what kind of posh mini-cheddars Wes is getting up in 1st class. Gold ones, probably.
6 September 2008
Time to carbo-load! With mini-cheddars and tea!
6 September 2008
Not the best start to the trip. Missed the train I'd booked to Cardiff. Now taking the 1545 with Wes. He's taking the Brompton and sit ...
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6 September 2008