Oops! Looks like I've got behind with my correspondence.
A few days tidying up, a quick spin to the coast in the rain, and suddenly I'm way behind on this thread. Apologies.
dmoan said:
Thank you so much for taking the effort to post your reports.
Thank you kindly. Your glowing comments may have just earned you a place on the back cover of the forthcoming print edition
MacB said:
Fantastic Andy, the most entertaining write up I've enjoyed, but came to an end too quickly.
Ah.. Mac. Missed you on Friday. If you're a fan of things that go on almost indefinitely, you'd certainly have loved the Brighton run. I think we got there at about 9am! Character building stuff
Browser said:
I knew night shifts were good for something, and this is it, reading epic posts like this in one sitting. I couldn't help reading your post about seized cables and thinking about the hydraulic cable oiler in my garage, and the fact that it would have had you sorted in a few minutes, had I but known you were passing so close.
Well done for making it through in one go. If I'd known you were local, I'd have dropped in. Stamford Road, Stowgate Road, Station Road, Crowland. 9 mile detour from the route, but oh so worth it
Keith Oates said:
Like many others here Andy I've been following and amazed at the ride and the report, both of which are worthy of seperate and high praise. I also thank you for giving a distant ex pat a few hours of relaxation and pleasure in getting such an insight of what it takes to complete an L - E - L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Keith. Very much appreciated. Wahey! I'm being read in Vietnam.
Tynan said:
excellent work fella
to do this is amazng enough but to do it in ever diminshing gears and bad weather and barely working drive train is just silly
bravo
LOL. You're not wrong. To be honest though, I don't know any other way
OK. And now onto the titles.
dmoan said:
There and back again (150 cableties later...)
I quite like that. But you're already on the back cover. Can't have you on the front too
Auntie Helen said:
Laid Back LEL.
From London to Edinburgh and back in six days... on a recumbent bicycle.
Helles, your maths is awful.
From London to Edinburgh and back in
4 and a half days... on a recumbent bicycle.
Hmmm... We're gonna need a bigger spine
I'm still favouring something slightly abstract and snappy for the main title, with a necessary and descriptive subtitle to round it out for the unfamiliar.
I think paraphrasing
Lee's post, then combining yours might just do it:
...Barring Mechanicals.
From London to Edinburgh and back, on a recumbent bicycle.
