Like the sdw double i'm not sure why- but obviously Ballater local Wayne sees something and it's all the more mental of a challenge to ride past the finish point once.
Follow him here
https://www.spottrackerrental.co.uk/wayne-blair-hc1000/
HA! "insane Wayne" from BITD.
Sooner him than me.
Plenty traffic on the route now.
Watching. 🙂
Careful Trail rat, you'll have him lynched, he's an Abine loon ken?
Doing well so far. He's mental enough to complete it. Went to Ride Sierra nevada last year with Wayne and Banana his wife. He rode his hard tail up the local road climb every morning and night, as well as the daily trails. Quite amusing watching him catch and overtake a roadie in full team lycra as we went past in the van.
I think his dream would be to do the coast to coast across America or the Great Divide, if he could finance/be sponsored.
Unfortunately I think a lot of that would not be a nice ride at all, especially with the good weather we're having at the moment. A relative of mine was up that way recently and got stuck on the route while the drivers of a van and a camper, travelling in opposite directions, had a set-to in the road for 20 minutes.
I was lucky to cycle some of the route as part of an Audax, just before the NC500 thing took off, but I'm not sure I'd want to go back and do it now.
HA! “insane Wayne” from BITD.
My reaction too as soon as I saw ballater 🙂
It's really not as bad for cycling as many folk are making out. Many of our customers have been doing it and are coming back with great stories.
That's not to say it won't be even better when the current hype has died down a bit ......
I was driving round much of the NC500 Western sections last week immediately after the bank holiday. Can't say it was that busy at all, and I'd have no reservations cycling it.
Could be a different story in August.
Could be a different story in August.
Local businesses have been telling us that mid-May to end-June is the busiest, certainly for the car clubs, motorcyclists etc. They tend to avoid the regular holiday season.
A relative of mine was up that way recently and got stuck on the route while the drivers of a van and a camper, travelling in opposite directions, had a set-to in the road for 20 minutes.
Ha, my parents got stuck in a queue behind two groups of Clarkson wannabes who had come head to head on a singletrack section and neither group would give way. I was up at the bank holiday weekend and it wasn't as busy as it is later in the summer. I don't think I'd want to cycle it in summer anyway, some terrible driving sadly.
Wayne is doing fantastically and is nearing Ullapool.
Keep on dot-watching everyone!
climbing out of torridon this morning
Climbing out of torridon again this morning....
Still going strong. Probably be finished early tomorrow morning
And the tracker jumped just after you posted, TR... currently going well and in Poolewe.
Just seen a photo of him still smiling through the midges.
@rugbydick. That's because he's a cybernetic organism consisting of living tissue over a robotic endoskeleton. 😂🤣😂🤣
He is having knee issues but that's only human after that milage. He's still pushing on
He's just at John O'Groats. 880 miles in. Not far to go now!
Under the ton to go. Last update near Lybster.
1006 miles 21,695ft of climbing in 95 hours total.
Gobsmacked.