Hitchin Exile
Winger
On request of Rocktop to differentiate from the girl's 3 day C2C, this thread is for the real men (and lasses?) who are up for a repeat of the C2C in a day. Rocktop also has suggested that Manuel is up for organising this in the absence of Flav, who is off gallivanting with ladyboys (allegedly).
The logical date seems to be Saturday 10th May so that us exiles get to a home match on the day after the ride (Swansea at home, last match of the season on Sunday 11th May).
For those of you who weren't privileged enough or hard enough to take part in last year's epic, the format was to drive over to Whitehaven on the Friday afternoon (leaving the SOL @ 3pm as I recall). We stayed in a cheap, slightly strange B&B and ate in an acceptable Italian in metropolitan Whitehaven (it was mainly acceptable because of the 'wad' waitress!). We set off in the pissing rain and continued in the pissing rain for @ 6-7 hours until we crossed the border into Co. Durham where, being God's Country, the sun came out.
My Garmin registered 125 miles with 3,500 metres of climbing for the ride but we took it reasonably gently with lots of stops (some planned, some mechanical) and everyone finished together and had a pint or two in the Smugglers. It took @ 11-12 hrs from start to finish.
The ride was brilliantly supported in a van by Malcolm X & Rocktop, that we all chipped in for (plus the van that transported the bikes over on the Friday).
All in all it was a fantastic day and excellently supported and organised. If you're interested sign up below and, hopefully, Manuel, or CeeJay will step into the Flav sized breach!
The logical date seems to be Saturday 10th May so that us exiles get to a home match on the day after the ride (Swansea at home, last match of the season on Sunday 11th May).
For those of you who weren't privileged enough or hard enough to take part in last year's epic, the format was to drive over to Whitehaven on the Friday afternoon (leaving the SOL @ 3pm as I recall). We stayed in a cheap, slightly strange B&B and ate in an acceptable Italian in metropolitan Whitehaven (it was mainly acceptable because of the 'wad' waitress!). We set off in the pissing rain and continued in the pissing rain for @ 6-7 hours until we crossed the border into Co. Durham where, being God's Country, the sun came out.
My Garmin registered 125 miles with 3,500 metres of climbing for the ride but we took it reasonably gently with lots of stops (some planned, some mechanical) and everyone finished together and had a pint or two in the Smugglers. It took @ 11-12 hrs from start to finish.
The ride was brilliantly supported in a van by Malcolm X & Rocktop, that we all chipped in for (plus the van that transported the bikes over on the Friday).
All in all it was a fantastic day and excellently supported and organised. If you're interested sign up below and, hopefully, Manuel, or CeeJay will step into the Flav sized breach!
