On 1 Nov, 00:23, useth...@stedtelephone.invalid (Paul Cummins) wrote:
> We were about to embark at Dover, when
nos...@ntlworld.com (Rob Morley)
> came up to me and whispered:
>
> > You said "I was able to put miles on that like you could not
> > believe, including Lands End to John o Groats in 10 days" but I
> > have no difficulty believing that you did LEJoG in 10 days.
>
> And I was not claiming to be exceptional, merely that the mileage I did
> may have been at the time for a 17 year old amateur cyclist.
>
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Dad also says he managed an average of 80 miles a day at 15/16
despite not being an enthusiast or club rider. No spare clothes, food
or water taken, just rode off with pair of shorts, plimsoles and a
sweater, with a saddlebag and a sleeping liner for the Youth hostels.
He was accompanied by a good friend who had engaged with a cycling
club and knew the limitations one could bear. Two others bottled out
from the holiday. He had a Lenton, which from what I've heard and
read, were a well-sorted light touring bike. It was summer so I
suspect he may have been picking fruit as he went, he would unlikely
have had any money, what with paying for the bike, possibly financed
from money he earned him bringing in the dairy herd each morning which
he had done for a number if years before school. Perhaps it was his
necessary dawn rising, and butcher's delivery boy, which was key to
his basic fitness. Those trade bikes were heavy and although living
on the Lancashire plain, de village is in the ley of a hill and he
would have to rise de ill to get to de posh 'ouses.