Hey, I hadn’t posted this yet as STW had promised to put it in mini movies so was holding off.
Some of you might know that I decided in a rather foolhardy way to have a go at Dave Buchanan’s WC2C route last year. Typically I was doing it for ‘charidee’ (you can still donate here btw 😛 http://www.justgiving.com/garyrideswc2c) raising money for Bristol’s Children’s Hospital – specifically the expansion of the premature baby ward.
I did it supported because I’d never done this sort of thing before, and being for charity, I felt I ‘had’ to finish regardless and going supported seemed to improve the chances in my mind. The upshot was that I was able to get it filmed and having gone back out and retraced the route to get more footage over the last year, I can now share that film.
It’s called “When Fools Ride” and it at least tells a version of the story of what happened that day. Anything that’s obviously live, is live, and happened as seen. Anything that looks like I probably had to go back out on the route several times and film loads of riding stuff, probably is! 😉
Anyway, I’d banked on a 24 hour attempt and it rather brutally turned into a 36 hour ride. Mainly due to weather (which doesn’t always come across in the film but it was a three seasons in August kind of day), navigation ineptitude, naivety and total inexperience doing long A-B challenges.
I hope you enjoy it because making the film has probably been more painful than the ride itself! (Hint, if you watch it on Vimeo, it is actually HD and bigger :D)
[video]http://vimeo.com/70842919[/video]
