whoever designed the hydraulic braking system on the tandem, knows his stuff.
You mean that "Thing" had brakes, I thought it was just out of control.
There does seem to be an awful lot of pics of Colin walking though, did you ride up any of the hills?
The reason being, I'm not one of the fittest, so most people beat me to the top so I could not get no "Sweat and Blood" shots of them labouring up the hills, and Colin was always at the back, rounding us up so that no one was able to dodge the hills on his masochistic route.
One scary moment was after we left Hawes, and the Heavens opened up on us, Colin mentioned that we would have to come back down again till it stopped, I took one look at the hill and thought, if I climb that, there's no way I'm coming back down again to do it again, even though I might get struck by lightening at least it would be quick and swift and not the 32 minutes of suffering to travel 3.4 miles from turning off the main road at Hawes to the top of the climb of Fleet Moss.
If you look carefully though at the shots of us all at the top of Fleet Moss, that's not rain running down the road but sweat.
Most of the shots are slightly blurred, that's because I could not hold the camera still from shaking so much from the exertations of those hillsl.
The Dent Station climb took 36 and a 1/2 minutes to just travel 3.55 miles
My Maximum speed was 41.9mph, I was a bit reluctant to let loose with being unknown roads, and thanks to the Garmin, I could see them hair pins coming up, two of them would have caught me out near Settle towards the end as they was hidden till you was on top of them, plus my brake pads were a bit too worn out or so I thought, I changed them this afternoon and they was not as bad as they looked with still plenty of life in them, maybe I just had a build up of Silicone polish on my rims as I do spray it every where when I polish the bike.
I cannot even believe the only pic I'm in, Will aimed high, I think to get the rain clouds and missed my new £219 shoes, I'm gutted
Temperature wise, my Garmin recorded a maximum of 30C and that was just on that " Little Gentle Slope" as I almost got to Dent Station, an Avg of 21.5 and the minimum recorded was on Fleet Moss in the rain shower at 15C.
The local weather stations had a maximum of 23.6 and an Avg of 21.8
Anyway I'm out for this weekend as I have to work nights so it will be just a short club run for me