Birmingham to Berlin - Join Us On One of the Legs!

Not clear from that post :/ I thought maybe accommodation, but not sure.

So, they're doing this ride without planning routes or accomodation? Fun way to do it but I was under the impression that these guys had been preparing for months!

touring always going to very very demanding on the bike, even for a 9 days tour, I'm not surprised such thing happen!

Yes but on day 2?

As far as I know, they've got camping gear. 3x 2 person tents is what I remember being told.

quoting "my stem has completely snapped in dover, but will be fixed tomorrow"

gaffer tape?

must've been scary at the time

Sounds like one of those failures that happened either at a stop or low speed and you feel very relieved that it didn't happen at speed or on a downhill!

Burton Dasset is a great place! That photo is surprisingly lacking in sheep though!

Jess has put out a request on Facebook about an hour ago, any one help out with this?

as a Banbury boy have spent many family picnics on those hills. great place to run around as a kid.

i have a good mate in Brussels - do you know what they need?

I'm a Coventry boy. Spent many a time driving up their with mates and dossing about :)

No idea what they need in Brussels at the moment. Will keep an eye out on FB etc...

^ cool. drop me a pm if you hear anything. tho will check back in here throughout the day.

From Twitter:

brumtoberlin
Eating jelly babies on the belgian border. Country number 3.

Hey wait guys, I'm coming!

Oh.

^i'll donate some more i you catch them up

^i'll donate some more i you catch them up

By bicycle...

I'll stump up £200 if 6pt can catch them before berlin if he leaves on saturday...

gaffer tape?

thats how they fixed the snapped rack on day one, great ride with everyone. damn id forgotten about the magical avon dassett ice cream van. that hill was a superb climb, will defo be doing that again to visit the top.

good luck to the berliners

top work ashley. two days contribution, after a long ride on monday too.

today is defo my rest day, 10 miles of riding, im letting the polski's do it catchin up with the tour du polongne

I'll second that, nice riding ash. Come on the M25 ride!

could do it in 4 days if I used the (highly unsuitable) route that google maps suggests right off the bat.

I'd give you five to be kind. I'm not working either.

Seriously Tom, do you fancy it?

As in I could be tempted to come with.

Organisationally I couldn't cope, financially I can't afford it, but I've got the legs for it and plenty of shit to work out of my system if someone takes care of the doing and the thinking. Not carrying anything on the bike though. Loaded touring can fuck right off.