One tough day ahead of us today, the biggest mileage of the whole trip, 102 miles says Andy (that’ll be 115 miles then, or 125 if you’ve got Neils navigation skills!)
At the start of the day Arthur had problems with a sheared screw in one of his pedals that was fouling the clip mechanism. The boys set off at a brisk pace from Kilmarnock while Paul and Guy headed off to find a cycle shop for a set of new pedals for Arthur. The van caught the boys up about 10 miles from Paisley, Arthur was at the back of the pack but a change of pedal generously donated from Paul’s bike soon put that right. Paul and Guy then called into another warm welcome at Barrhead fire station, thanks to Hugh, Watch Manager at Kilmarnock who communicated the message across Strathclyde that the WFG08 boys were here, thanks Hugh. Unfortunately we had to turn down the offer of a breakfast at Barrhead ‘cause the peleton had already sped ahead of the station, so we dropped down to Paisley and feasted in Morrisons Caf’.
After brecky with some big miles to go the boys headed straight off over the Erskine bridge and up the A82 to the Highlands, whilst Paul and Guy called in at Paisley fire station where Paul met up with Lesley Muir, for some fire service cycling nostalgia. Lesley pointed us in the direction of a decent cycling shop where we picked up some new pedals also thanks to Paisley for letting us use their internet to post the blog.
Meanwhile the peleton are storming ahead with some good weather, Alan scores 8.3 for a great bit off diving, double somersault with pike but gets off lightly with no injuries, though his bike suffers shortly after with the first puncture of the trip. Neil cycled back to help Al whilst the van caught up then Neil speeded ahead while Guy dropped off and joined Alan on the trip up to Tyndrum for the lunchstop. After lunch the boys headed up through some stunning scenery to Glencoe, with the temperature dropping and the wind picking up and driving against us. A demanding finish for the day, even going down hill was hard work, arriving eventually at Onich where the hotel was a welcome sight.
At the start of the day Arthur had problems with a sheared screw in one of his pedals that was fouling the clip mechanism. The boys set off at a brisk pace from Kilmarnock while Paul and Guy headed off to find a cycle shop for a set of new pedals for Arthur. The van caught the boys up about 10 miles from Paisley, Arthur was at the back of the pack but a change of pedal generously donated from Paul’s bike soon put that right. Paul and Guy then called into another warm welcome at Barrhead fire station, thanks to Hugh, Watch Manager at Kilmarnock who communicated the message across Strathclyde that the WFG08 boys were here, thanks Hugh. Unfortunately we had to turn down the offer of a breakfast at Barrhead ‘cause the peleton had already sped ahead of the station, so we dropped down to Paisley and feasted in Morrisons Caf’.
After brecky with some big miles to go the boys headed straight off over the Erskine bridge and up the A82 to the Highlands, whilst Paul and Guy called in at Paisley fire station where Paul met up with Lesley Muir, for some fire service cycling nostalgia. Lesley pointed us in the direction of a decent cycling shop where we picked up some new pedals also thanks to Paisley for letting us use their internet to post the blog.
Meanwhile the peleton are storming ahead with some good weather, Alan scores 8.3 for a great bit off diving, double somersault with pike but gets off lightly with no injuries, though his bike suffers shortly after with the first puncture of the trip. Neil cycled back to help Al whilst the van caught up then Neil speeded ahead while Guy dropped off and joined Alan on the trip up to Tyndrum for the lunchstop. After lunch the boys headed up through some stunning scenery to Glencoe, with the temperature dropping and the wind picking up and driving against us. A demanding finish for the day, even going down hill was hard work, arriving eventually at Onich where the hotel was a welcome sight.
2 comments:
Good luck lads for the last day of riding, keep peddling fast Matty, cant wait to have you home for good xxxx miss ya xxxxxxxx
Good luck for the last leg lads. Great to see the photos. Can we have some of the diving?
Keep pedalling!
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