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as you crest Chapel Hill…
Look left you’ll see probably my favourite view in Sussex. I never tire of the view west. It’s up against some stiff competition – Steyning Bowl, the Weald when you look out from the false summit on Ditchling Beacon, the view north from just below the summit of Firle Bostal, the Seven Sisters from Seaford Head,…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 9 // September // The Black Mountains
The YHA weren’t lying when they said the Wye Valley hostel was at the end of a “a steep unsurfaced road with a hairpin bend”. The first few hundred metres of the September TT ride was back up that steep driveway more suited to a ‘crosser or MTB. The hostel lies next to the River…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 8b // August // Norfolk
The next day I ride north into Norfolk to meet my friend James. I’ve not actually met James before, or even spoken to him, but he’s part of the Twitter cycling community and we’ve chatted (typed) online a fair bit. After zigzagging along some quiet lanes I pick up a main road north, through Dennington…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 8a // August // Suffolk
Riding the coastal flat lands of Suffolk, an edge of England made from clay and sand, being slowly reclaimed by the sea, it’s so flat that it is like actually riding on a map. The edges of the paper can’t be seen, extending away in all directs. The map isn’t completely flat though, it ripples…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Etape 7 // July // France
No words for this one yet, just some pictures. A combination of Tourist Trophy foreign country wildcard and Rapha Rising. Words will follow at some point in the future.
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 6a // June // Bath to Salisbury
a.k.a Getting lost in the mid-West The original plan was to travel by train to Salisbury on a Saturday morning followed by a leisurely meandering ride to Bath over two days. However a few days before the ride I realised that I’d planned the ride for the same weekend as the annual London to Brighton…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 6b // June // Salisbury to Brighton
a.k.a A morning to forget, an afternoon to remember. Day 2 I woke up and didn’t hear the sound of rain. This was promising as the forecast in the few days before the ride had been bad. After filling up on the YHA buffet breakfast I retrieved my bike from the shed and pointed the…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stages 5b to 5f // Scotland & the Lake District
Stage 5b – Fife: Tayport to St Andrews and back again [flat] A pleasant, flat 35 mile recovery ride from Tayport to St. Andrews via the Fife Coastal Route through Tentsmuir Forest, Leuchars and Guardbridge. Tea and double Tunnocks at West Sands in St. Andrews before heading back to Tayport. Strava link: http://app.strava.com/activities/53979529 Stage 5c…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 5a // May // Etape Caledonia
I rolled down the road into Pitlochry from the campsite to be confronted by people lining the pavements and about 5000 cyclists crammed onto the main street. It was 6.20am. I made my way down the pavement looking for somewhere to wait until wave M was called to the line for our 6.54 start time.…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 4 // April // Dorset
It must have been spring, as not only was the April TT ride the first proper full day ride of the year, it was also the first camping weekend of the year. A mate and his kids were coming along too so on Friday afternoon we jumped in their campervan/caravan combo and headed west. The…
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