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Warm beer
... these guys are going to complete the ride in...
Never fear, the nearest pub is, well is 45 mins away..ah.....
Warm beer assured, the fridge was figured out, and the food finally cooked.....and the real adventure had started.......
Thought of the day..... do a dry run with said cmaper van equipment
Good luck with the ride ...
Blog catch-up time
Got off to a great start from Lands End after a rather emotional send off by Brenda Becky and Christina. The bike performed well but feels like I'm tugging a caravan. It's something arou 45lbs much more than I hoped to get down to but can't seem to reduce it.
Beautiful day and surprised myself at average speed of 9 mph.Rode along coastal cycle route to Marazion and the drama of 'the Mount'-this is the life I thought.
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Sammy Miller's & Land's End
Sunday & Monday 22-23 May 2011 - after leaving cousin Betty's at Southampton we rode to Sammy Miller's Motorcycle Museum at New Milton about 30 miles distance.
Sammy MILLER is a famous British motorcycle racer of the 1950's & 60's. He is well into his 70's and still competes in certain events such as the Isle of Man TT in 2009 when he famously crashed over a ...
No Turning Back.....
... Anne and Ken drove down from Co Durham, Andy Hammond and John Ellis came down from Cheshire, John Long, Mike Ives and I left from Leicestershire, David Gibson cycled from Haverhill to Cambridge and took the train to Penzance whilst Richie Hammond came all the way from Glasgow in Scotland. Its a long way down to Lands end, great spin in our big van.
Our ...
Time to get on that bike
... with it's beautiful bays, Newton Ferrers, Noss, Mothecombe, Stoke Beach, Holbeton with a cumulative gradient of 2500ft. and 1 in 4 rough track.This, I've treated as a 100m sprint. Whenever I slip into cruise mode I stand up on my pedals 'honk' until the pain barrier is reached! Completing this twice a week, with other activities, has hopefully got me to a good level of fitness (little over 21/2 hours). For company, two volumes of the Short ...


