Well, today’s the day: Dave and Trev are off on their 320km adventure back to Colchester. You can track them here, and use the comments to wish them luck or take the mick. They’re planning to roll out at 5am and do the ride in 16hrs. You can also tweet them messages at @roadccdave and @trevor_ergon24 respectively. Good luck chaps!
Follow Dave and Trev on their 320km ride to Colchester!
16 hours is the target, but how will they fare on their West-East adventure?
Fri, Jul 01, 2011 04:27
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mattw 2 hours ago
I think the author is trying too hard to "both sides" this one. The basic error is Gove's - he was wandering across a pedestrian crossing on red for him with his head in a cup of coffee, and started well after it was on red. The Highway Code says "should not cross" in these circumstances. He then tried to excuse this by red herrings. Conservatives, including Gove, are supposed to have taking personal responsibility for their actions as a core value. Perhaps having the crooked coward Boris Johnson and Fruit Loop Liz as elected leaders demonstrates that this is merely historical. Gove is permitting a culture war being fought in the pages of his magazine; that is a war where Conservatives are demonising cycling because they hope it will save the rump Conservative Party. One example was their sudden reversal of support for the Welsh 20mph default limit. Should noodles have reacted less sharply - perhaps. A chat with Michael Gove to stop him wandering around the streets like a lobotomised koala may have been beneficial.
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@mdavidford Funny, as soon as I saw your comment on the ticker on another article I knew to whom you must be replying.
Backladder 5 hours ago
@mctrials23 People have been suffering for years because they have been unlucky enough to have been hired by bad people, or had the bad luck to become ill. This is just bringing the system more into balance. I don't have a problem with encouraging people to start businesses but I don't agree with doing it by letting them exploit the poor and the desperate, if they need encouragement then offer state benefits for small businesses and use the claims process to make sure that they are doing everything they should to run the business properly including paying and training their employees. If they just want to get rich quick by exploiting others then they should be in the USA.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
One may wonder why you've brought up DEI when it has nothing at all to do with anything in what Lappartient said. Or why you care about the state of the women's sport if you're so down on diversity, equity and inclusion. 🤷♂️
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
Not quite the first time, I rode over it back in the late twentyteens, just happened to see it was jammed nose-to-tail so thought it would be fun to filter along...turned out there was an overturned lorry at the eastern end blocking all carriageways. I honestly didn't know cycling was banned (the signs aren't very prominent), just assumed nobody rode on it because it would be suicidal in normal circumstances. Fortunately the weary copper at the other end who saw me just cut off my apologies and said, "Fuck off over there [a gap in the barrier to a slip road] and don't do it again."
Backladder 5 hours ago
They're not slalom barriers, they're Sheffield stands for parking your bike.
mctrials23 6 hours ago
@momove I would think that spending time training someone up, putting the time and effort into that only to have most people move on relatively quickly isn't a great business model. I know there is the argument that "if your business has to take advantage of people to run then its not a viable business" but thats the reality of some of these shops. Up to a point, thats exactly what apprenticeships have always been. A business get cheap labour that might help them a bit and the apprentice learns something.
MaxiMinimalist 6 hours ago
One may wonder why bureaucrat Lappartient wants to reinvent the wheel with a massive injection of DEI and drastic reduction of money. Let the best cyclists win, period. Meanwhile, women's pro peloton needs means and support to attract new sponsors, increase TV coverage, improve salaries and prize money.
momove 6 hours ago
So they want to pay people a pittance "for the experience", not record their leave accrued, have them ineligible for sickness pay, then complain about them not being experts on e-bikes, bikefitting and more?
mitsky 6 hours ago
No right-wing media frothing about this?
31 thoughts on “Follow Dave and Trev on their 320km ride to Colchester!”
I hope there’ll be someone at
I hope there’ll be someone at home in Colchester to let you in. You have told them you’re coming have you?
From the trace they look like
From the trace they look like they have taken a wrong turn! Colchester is East not NW.
That saddle looks a bit high
That saddle looks a bit high !! :O
Going good guys,Keep it up !
Going good guys,Keep it up ! 🙂
good effort so far gents,
good effort so far gents, making good progress
Looks like they’re hitting
Looks like they’re hitting Burford on schedule – I was hoping to ride out there myself to have coffee and cakes with them but sadly have been unable to get away from the house – well done gents, enjoy your break, and happy riding the rest of the day.
Great bike riding weather in this part of the country B-)
Good going…makes me pucker
Good going…makes me pucker up just thinking about being in the saddle for that long. I wonder if they’d be up for a little detour to join me for tea and cake on the seafront in Brighton this afternoon.
In burford enjoying a whole
In burford enjoying a whole foccacia to myself. Trev went for the croque monsiuer. We left 30m late so running behind a bit 🙂
I hope you went to Huffkins?
I hope you went to Huffkins? Best coffee shop in Burford.
Good luck today chaps
Croque monsieur? Sounds like
Croque monsieur? Sounds like an old school TDF cafe raid. Did he manage to filch a bottle of brandy and stash it in his back pocket?
Five hours in. Good going
Five hours in. Good going fellas. Just think of the bonus points you’ll score in July’s Metric Century Challenge!
Well done, lovely day for it.
Well done, lovely day for it. Hope there’s something in the legs for the hills in Colchester up to town centre.
Congratulations on finding
Congratulations on finding the secret Bicester By-pass.
Just out of interest, what
Just out of interest, what are you using to do the tracking?
Trev looks pro! You’re
Trev looks pro! You’re looking a lot thinner Dave! That road.cc jersey, is it Sportwool? Do Rapha know about it?
Nah, it’s actual wool. Black
Nah, it’s actual wool. Black is very slimming too.:-)
We’re using opengeotracker for the tracking, running from my phone.
Lunch now, lasagna and chips FTW!
dave_atkinson wrote:Nah, it’s
It’s very slimming when it’s a size too small all right… can I have it back soon.
When you arriving? I am off
When you arriving? I am off on holiday in that neck of the woods next weekend.
Husbourne Crawley for lunch –
Husbourne Crawley for lunch – did you ride through the safari park (I can recommend it).
Good luck with the rest of the ride.
Into the final hundred now I
Into the final hundred now I guess =D>
Lasagne, chips, Tangfastics. The food of gods.
C’Mon Guys you are doing so
C’Mon Guys you are doing so well, I reckon ya gonna do it well inside ya time ya set yourselves. Well done 🙂
Honey! I’m home!
Final scores
Honey! I’m home!
Final scores on the doors: 356.8km, 23.1km/h avg.
I have a beer in my hand & a fry-up on the way 🙂
Nicely done
Nicely done
I’m up to 356m at ave speed
I’m up to 356m at ave speed of 2.31 km/hr.
Well done guys, oh by the way the game crashed when you were away. 🙂
Well done Fellas. Nice day
Well done Fellas. Nice day out. That must have been one of life’s tastiest beers ever. What time do you start the ride back to Bath today?
simonmb wrote:Well done
I’m never riding a bike ever again
Well done gents! I salute
Well done gents! I salute you. Rest up and remember the recovery ride back to Bath to keep those legs loose 😀
Well done! Very impressive
Well done! Very impressive effort.
Thanks for all the comments
Thanks for all the comments guys, I am glad our little adventure seems to have provided some Friday entertainment for some.
I felt good when I got up for a ride this morning but as the clouds rolled in and the itv4 coverage of le tour came on my motivation evapourated. A touch of DOMS in the afternoon meant it was probably the right choice
An awesome ride from Dave who was strong as an Ox after the quadruple espresso stop at 265km – little did we know there was nearly 100km to go. This is definitely one of my most satisfying cycling achievements despite not involving a podium or podium girls. I hope Dave agrees too.
oh and simonmb – thanks for the comment regarding looking pro, I do try my best 😉
yeah, big thanks to everyone
yeah, big thanks to everyone for getting involved, it was fun, sort of 🙂
I can smell my mum’s fry-up from 100km out so that gave me a push. Trev was strong the whole way through, though we both got a bit bored of the lanes after lunch. you should have seen the pair of us TTTing down the A421 just outside MK, we hit 50kph along that bit and it wasn’t even downhill. much 🙂
Gonna try the ‘low’ route
Gonna try the ‘low’ route next time 🙂