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My Tricross with 32mm Landcruisers would be the ideal bike for this... fast enough and dead comfy.
Right Si, will see you at Reedley Marina tomorrow morning.
Send us a text or email with your mobile number and we'll see you between 10 and 11 hopefully.
If there's anything you need, text me and we'll bring it along.
Good luck!
Pete.
Well, we did it.
LOTS of punctures including a complete tyre disintigration resulting in a delivery of an emergency replacement.
Tougher than i thought it would be, especially as we were all on various forms of rigid commuter/hybrid types. The fields from foulridge to the far side of Skipton really took it out of us and the lad who's organised it had a sense of humour failure along that stretch, bike thrown into the bushes etc!
Moved very slowly at some points as the newbies s started to flag, came in at 11:36pm after rolling for 19.5hrs.
Very proud of them all, especially the organiser who only bought a bike in Feb after not riding since childhood.
Many thanks to Rusty Spanner and his lovely wife for meeting us before foulridge and providing us with cake and encouragement.
We have some very sore people here now. I don't feel that bad although my wrists and neck are stiff.
Good effort! Let's hope the return leg's a bit easier 😀
Well done...not an easy thing to do and can be especially demoralising as you cycle round in circles near Skipton
That was my worst point too!
Well done. I thought punctures might prove a problem,the other year I had to show someone to the bike shop in Ormskirk as He'd ran out of patches,would'nt mind but he only set of from Liverpool!
If I ever do it I'll run tubeless & slime..
Well done lads.
It was a pleasure riding with you for a very short while.