COAST TO COAST

In aid of Bassetlaw A&E Trust Fund we rode from Runcorn to Hull, as a group of seven we did the 140 miles through the peak district. The first group of five set off about dinner on the Saturday and got to the Ladybower by the evening, then me and Paul Wardle went back to Runcorn to get a good nights sleep before setting off at 4:00am to race towards the Ladybower to meet up again with the others. We did the trip in 14 hours, the other guys did it in 17 hours over two days, they were Roy Tomlinson, Uli Schroeter, James Butler Shaun Rollinson and Steve Batty, we raised nearly 3 thousand pounds. Please take a look at our youtube video.

WHARNCLIFFE WEEKENDER 2006

The start of the very first Wharncliffe Weekender I'm number 90, Lee Bertram 47 in the nuns outfit went on to be masters downhill world champion Andrew Titley british champion 5 as a punk rocker and Tristan Tunstall Masters downhill british champion, not to mention Steve Peat dressed as a gorilla. Also in the field were Roy Tomlinson as a seventies throwback Craig Mckay as a bee and James Butler as a vampire. A really good event that raised a lot of money for Weston Park hospital in Sheffield, It would be nice to do it again if it can be started up again.

COAST TO COAST ONE

Myself and Paul Wardle did this in May 2005, I had this hair brained idea that it may be easy enough to do what was described as a four day ride in one day unsupported. We were going to do it for charity but did not in the end because another local team was doing a coast to coast at the same time over four days and I thought we might hamper their fundraising. I got my mate Chris at Edison Cycles to drop us off in the morning at Hull and booked a taxi to pick us up in Runcorn at 11:30pm that night. Why a taxi? Well up until a few days before a mate was supposed to be collecting us but he backed out with a more important task in mind, so..  taxi. We carried all we thought we would need for the day, food, drink, tubes, tyres, lights, chain, deraileur etc in our camelbaks, they were bloody heavy but we gradually lightened them by eating through them. We managed to do it in 17:30 hours just a few minutes late for our taxi, then slept like babies all the way home.