Squeaky Wheels the Rationale

Team Squeaky Wheels came together by accident following a drunken conversation about the possibility of riding from Lands End to John O'Groats. The result was the accumulation of a quarter of a millenniums worth of accumulated wit and (arguably) wisdom in the guise of Jeff, Tim, Don and Michael. To give us all an incentive to accomplish this route we decided to make the journey a sponsored ride for McMillan Cancer Support, and run this Blog for our friends and supporters. Hopefully we will provide daily reports of our progress and events during the ride. These may become more terse as exhaustion and saddle sores kick in. So watch this space.

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Day (11)

Abington to Stirling 62 miles. Again the weather was grey, cold and windy. Fortunately the wind was mainly at our backs and made for relatively straightforward cycling. Intermittent rain caused drops in temperature from cool to cold. Landscape varied from hilly to post Industrial Wasteland, where we skirted Glascow. The climb from Cumbernald to the moor above Stirling was hard, and we did not benefit from the view, of both Glascow and and Edinburgh, was occluded by the weather. The joy of the countryside was spoilt by considerable evidence of fly-tipping. Whoever said "Bonny Scotland"???

2 comments:

  1. Is that really you Michael on those pictures? Don't recognise you. Who's the stand-in? Just to prove that we're thinking of you, we putting in our two penneth:

    What with strong gales and Icelandic dust
    Our hearties you know won't be fussed
    If on reaching the end
    When they round the last bend
    They are met by a plague of Locust

    From you local support team in sunny Schwyz

    Chris and Jürg

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  2. You guys are really persistent on reaching good results. Whenever I woke up on a bleak weather I find it hard to get away from my bed, and so lazy to do even the simplest things!


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