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@wikey
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"I need to hear jolly stories of your cycling exploits."
well heres one
when i was 16 my mate Tim and i were bike mad, belonged to cheltenham and gloucester cycling club.
in the summer his father died and at the funeral his cousin who was about thirty started ribbing us about cycling
tim's mum had invited me to join tim and his young brother and her on a weeks holiday in a cottage near stranrear in scotland
tims cousin knew this and said if we were so good we could ride there. tim said we would and then got over excited and said we would do it in 2 days. his cousin said he would bet us 15 pounds on that - a lot of money at the time. so a week and a bit later we set off from cheltenham on our dawes red feather 5 speed bikes. we pulled into kendal mid evening and had a meal at a b and b and walked into the town a little way and had a couple of underage beers
next morning up early back on the bikes , up shap and down to carlilse gretna, dumfries lockerby and that evening into stranrear or at least nearby where the cottage was . done in 2 days, 420 miles we got our money and we put the bikes on the train to go back home !!
wikey