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  • McMoonter, Ton and the Sweary Northerners go touring to the Inner Hebrides
  • mcmoonter
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    I’m off with Ton and an unknown group of Sweary Northerners for a week long tour of the Inner Hebrides.

    Here’s a link so you can come along too.

    http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/mcandtheswearynorthernersgoislandhopping

    peterfile
    Free Member

    Sounds like an adventure! Where will you be 7th and 8th?

    mcmoonter
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    We catch the ferry over to Arran on the 6th so we’ll be on an island somewhere thereafter. I’m following the guys, if there’s a headwind, I’ve bagged Ton’s wheel. You headed that way too?

    skink2020
    Full Member

    I’m taking a boat from rhu to tayvallich around that time.
    I’ll keep an eye out for you lot.

    mcmoonter
    Free Member

    I don’t think we’ll be hard to miss.

    peterfile
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    You headed that way too?

    Not sure. No fixed plans as yet, but have an old friend arriving from Bermuda at some point over the weekend.

    I’d be more likely to join in an evening of boozing than riding this weekend 🙂

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Sumo contests in the evening ?

    mcmoonter
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    Top riding so far outrunning the midges and a few showers.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Enjoyable reading, sounds eventful so far!

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Tell Tony I’m envious!

    yunki
    Free Member

    😀

    Metasequoia
    Full Member

    The journal is great, I’m enjoying this a spectator and simultaneously planning a escape back to the Western Isles.

    Thanks for sharing!

    mcmoonter
    Free Member

    Sumo contests in the evening ?

    I’ve only heard the briefest of descriptions of this, I believe it’s somewhere on YouTube. Conniston Sumo?

    Jeez, how much ale can these guys get through and still ride?

    Day four and they’re still standing.

    http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/mcandtheswearynorthernersgoislandhopping

    Pics to follow when I get home, sorry folks

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Photo’s now or the big bloke gets it!

    Excellent commentary Mac, wish I was there. I’ve had to put your page on my bookmarks to save searching on here for it!

    mcmoonter
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    The incompetence on the pic uploads isn’t the big man’s fault, that numptyness is entirely of my own making.

    He was asking after you though.

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    *is very, very jealous*

    Diane
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    Will there be vids? 😀

    mcmoonter
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    https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=1&page_id=344962&v=8

    No wifi yesterday, normal service is resumed…..

    mcmoonter
    Free Member

    The big man kicked ass today.

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    This has been terrific reading about your adventures. 8) Well done that big man. 😀

    Almost sounds like a time warp there but in a nice way. Looking forward to seeing the pics.

    Thanks for updating us. 🙂

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Following it every day Mac & loving it.

    mcmoonter
    Free Member

    Cheers guys, I will get the pics up when I get home tomorrow.

    I’ve still to add the story of how Noggin convinced an American that Ton is the undisputed grizzly bear wrestling champion of Wakefield.

    mcmoonter
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    http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/mcandtheswearynorthernersgoislandhopping

    What an awesome week. Thanks to Ton for the invitation, if he ever asks you out on a ride with these guys, don’t hesitate to join them.

    I’ve added my pics to the blog, and I will add the other guys too when the forward them. My camera was in my jersey pocket in a dry bag but I think the lens may have had some condensation on it on some pics. They give you a flavour of the trip.

    leffeboy
    Full Member

    Great writing. Followed it most days and loved it. You appear to have edited out the swearing though 🙂

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    Wonderful stuff!

    sqweeeezzz
    Free Member

    Fantastic stuff. My folks own the shop in Ardfern a couple of miles north of Ford. It’s great to see this part of the world from a bike

    ton
    Full Member

    the trip was crap, the ale was rubbish, fried animal flesh is bad for you, midges drove me wild, the locals talk a funny language, my bum hurts from a weeks riding (fnnarr fnnarr).

    so when are we going again Moonter…………. 😆

    oh, and I have a ton of photo’s to add once my drowned phone starts to work.

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    Really enjoyed reading that, thanks.

    user-removed
    Free Member

    Ace! Brought back some memories – also really enjoyed that!

    I like the fact that someone has painted out the apostrophe in the ‘Cyclists’ sign 😆

    LadyGresley
    Free Member

    Very, very jealous! I’ve not done any cycle touring this summer 🙁
    Great reading, thank you 😀

    adjustablewench
    Free Member

    Good sunday morning read, beats depressing myself reading the papers

    Will add it to my never ending list of places to ride – again I find myself wishing I could win the lottery just so I could spend my time powering myself around the world on two wheels and living with the very bare essentials -ok I would treat myself to some very expensive lightweight stuff, but it still seems and odd wish

    grim168
    Free Member

    It’s pouring down outside as i read your tour report. Im sat here drinking coffee and eating cake rather than going for a ride. What a poof, call myself a northerner, I feel ashamed. Thanks i enjoyed reading that. 😀

    ton
    Full Member

    here are a few of my faves from a fantastic weeks tour.

    moonter with arran in the background

    steel behemoth on arran

    sweary northerners elderly drinking section

    least efficient touring bike ever, but he will beat you all.

    breathtaking place

    I hate busy beaches

    salty old shed

    produced by the old shed

    lochranza castle

    old bob

    I will get you deary………… 😀

    rapha……my arse!!

    butcher
    Full Member

    Quality pictures. Looks amazing.

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Aren’t they the Sweary Northerners’ Dads ?

    themilo
    Free Member

    Cheers – enjoyed the blog very much 🙂 Looks like great fun.

    zokes
    Free Member

    Enjoyed muchly – I’d love to do something like that sometime

    kimbers
    Full Member

    rapha my arse

    😆

    looks awesome – I need to escape somewhere too!

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