It has been a while.....

So, it has been a while since we have posted and therefore it is now time to start again.......

Daily Picture From Each Day's Ride

Last Night Bar Bill

Is any proof required that we are the pub cyclists??????

My Trek Bike - Madone 4.7c

The bike I used for the trip was the Trek Madone 4.7c. I think I know now why the brand is called Trek since that is what you are going to be doing a lot of the time!! As can be seen in the photograph I have had to duct tape the base of the seatpost to the frame to stop the saddle from spinning around. This event happened on day 8 when the inner metal sleeve of the carbon frame sheared off at the point where the seat post clamp holds everything together. The result was that the seat post was just sitting in the frame and whilst the clamp stopped it falling down there was nothing to stop it spinning around.
The bike is also a very hard ride. The slightest bumps are transmitted through to the rider and at times the bike feels very nervous over bumpy surfaces such as a cattle grid of which we met quite a few.
At high speed the bike is fairly stable but could not help wondering if there was gong to be a catastrophic failure of the frame!!
I have the compact groupset so no girly triple for me. The compact handled all the hills I encountered although I did need to go up some hills a little faster than I would have preferred.

The frame is now probably scrap because of the seatpost issue. I will be taking the bike back to the shop of course under warrantly. Would I buy another Trek?????

No!!!!!!!

Team Photo

Team photo at John o' Groats of Helen, Rob and Simon. If you click on the photo then it opens in a larger window and you may even notice that Rob appears to have 4 navels and some 'man boobs' under development!!!!!