One Gear - No Fear

Simon Watkins from Bristol is cycling on behalf of his favourite charity Clic Sargent.
He is attemping to cycle from John O' Groats to Lands End using only one gear. Yesterdays journey saw him travel from Ardrossan to Gretna Green a distance of almost 100 miles (the furthest he has cycled in one day).
His favourite part of the journey so far has been the Isle of Arran, where the roads were quiet and the hills were high. It must have been quite an achievement with only one gear.
Simons adventures can be found on One Bike One Gear No Brain

Black Pudding

Our two visitors last night were Tim Maton and Ross Flemming who hail from Bristol. They are cycling from Lands-End to John O' Groats to raise money for the MS Society and Naomi House Childrens Hospice. The pair rode up from Kirkby Lonsdale yesterday and will be staying with relatives in Kilmarnock tonight. They were delighted that we had black pudding on the menu for breakfast. Details of their journey can be found on their Lejog blog.

Night Rider

Yesterdays arrival was Babajide Bammeke who cycled from Liverpool to Gretna Green in order to raise money for Service International. It is a charity that he feels passionately about, so much so that he cycled through the night. Babajide began his journey on Friday evening at 6PM and arrived in Gretna Green at 11AM on Saturday morning. Babajide and his friend Elizabeth are looking forward to doing a bit of shopping before returing to Liverpool today.

No time for breakfast.

Yesterday saw the arrival of seven cyclists and a support driver.
The full team was Chris, James, Tom, Lizzie, Andrew, Nige, Yorky and Mary the driver.(Im not sure if they are standing in order.) Yesterdays journey from Kirkby Lonsdale to Gretna Green was fairly blustery but today will be even worse. There are gale force winds forecast for today so the group began the journey at 6AM in order to beat the weather. The groups blog can be found at lejogbikeride.blogspot.com. They are raising money for Cystic Fibrosis

A few problems.

Aaron, Clare, Pauline and Steve were back on schedule. Unfortunately they had a few problems on the way back here from John O' Groats. They were having several punctures a day. The satnav went haywire and took them right through the centre of Glasgow. Then Clare hit a pothole and came flying off her bike a few hundred yards from our guesthouse. On the bright side the weather has been good and they liked the scottish scenery.
Lets hope the journey to Lancaster today will be problem free.

We'll be back.

Aaron, Clare, Pauline and Steve, were last nights visitors. They are doing a 2,000 mile round trip. Driving up to John O' Groats by car then cycling back again with Pauline as support driver. They will be spending tonight in Wick and then starting the cycle ride on Sunday morning, hopefully arriving back here in Gretna Green next thursday.
The four of them are riding to support the Precious Lives Childrens Hospice in Cornwall.

Family Holiday.

Last nights cyclist was Mark Johnston from Bedfordshire
Mark is cycling from Lands-End to John O'Groats, and wife Susan and daughter Fiona are driving along for the Holiday. So as Mark cycled up from Lancaster yesterday, the two girls enjoyed the splendour of the Lake District.
The highlight of his journey so far has been the great views over Shap in almost perfect weather conditions. The low point was the begining of the journey travelling into 35 mile an hour winds and rain over the Cornish hills. Next stop Ayr and a days rest from the journey.

Coffee Please

There was a knock on the door and there was two wet and injured cyclists wanting coffee. I swapped them a free coffee for a photograph.
Luiz (left) from Brazil and Duncan from Australia, met a while back whilst cycling in East Timor. Duncan has sustained an injury so they are parting company for the day and meeting up later in Glasgow.
The two are cycling just for fun and the highlight of the trek has been the beautiful Wye valley.
Good luck Luiz and Duncan (our first cycle visitors this year).