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.

Monday 6 June 2011

Spaced out....

Speaking for myself, all this seems to have happened on another planet. I can't believe that exactly a week ago we were huddled in a weird and wind-blasted pub called the Crask Inn - I swear it was the only building for forty miles. We were watching Jim fix his eighteenth puncture in the saloon bar, listening to a RangeRover-load of southerners bizarrely quoting kids' poetry at one another, and overhearing a leathery group of heavyweight bikers speaking a language Jeff insisted was Gaelic (it wasn't, it was Dutch, but Gaelic makes a better story). All this might have occurred in another dimension of space and time. Fascinating though it was, I don't think I'm really homesick for that parallel universe. The bike has been safely locked in the shed, and by way of exercise, I think maybe I'll saunter off to the coffeeshop and surround a civilised muffin or two....
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