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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 3 // March // Isle of Wight
There was much deliberation about this ride. Firstly I needed to work out if the Isle of Wight was part of Hampshire or not. If it was, then I’d be breaking one of the rules of the Tourist Trophy (only two neighbouring counties allowed, but this invokes a subrule that East and West Sussex count…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 2 // February // Kent
In the early 1990s I spent three years at art school in Canterbury, living in Whitstable in my first year, so for February I decided to return to Kent and ride some roads and visit places I once knew. The ride would take me over the North Downs to the north coast of Kent, along…
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Tourist Trophy 2013 // Stage 1 // January // Surrey
Way back in January my good friend Jo Burt, over at road.cc, posted a challenge for 2013: The Tourist Trophy, to ride in a different county, not including your home county, each month. There are some additional rules that you can find at http://road.cc/content/forum/72631-2013-roadcc-tourist-trophy Turns out the first weekend after reading about the Tourist Trophy…

