tourist trophy
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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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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…
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