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The Great British Adventure

Peak District 22 June 2014

 

70's Phillips Phantom - loving restored and gifted to me by my team partner DPS (big bro)

 

top gear

 

Tuscan clobber from the Autumn... it's almost like I'd planned this...

 Friday Night Dinners

 

On The Road : Chippy Tea on the Village Green, Catterick

 

 2 hour detour... 

L'Eroica Team politely say they will wait up

All Roads Lead To Barnsley... then they're closed

Saturday comes!

 

et Bonjour Les Français!

 

and the Brits

 

 

so much great vintage gear

  

 

what a find! 

 

 

took me an age to understand why my bro kept vanishing solo to the rummage stalls.

He's looking at *cogs* 
 

first real banana sighting.

sun's out togs on bikes out

Saturday Warm-Up

 

All My Own Stunts

 

6.30am Sunday... good morning campers

 

le Départ : Bakewell

Bakewell S-tart 

8.30am - 55 miles (88k if you're not properly retro)

 

bit of a wobble... and we're off!

 

 

start of the stunning Monsal Trail

Expresso/wee stop in Millers Dale

 

  

 

 

team bro... we're good you know

 

Banana Peleton heading for Tideswell
 

 
Hartington welcomes L'Eroica. Brilliant hospitality

 

9.30am : first fuel stop. Immense. Sausages. Beer.

Egg sarnies. Biscuits. Bananas. Beer

Morris Dancing outside the Cheese Shop... I'm in a Kinks song

 Ciao Matteo! 
Matteo from Milano. An outstanding moustache, sir.

Have a biscuit!

 

 

Heading for the Edale Valley. Perfect

Derbyshire Strada Bianchi : 

on towards the Tissington Trail

 

 

Cromford. MORE food.

More biscuits than you can shake a stick at

Heriocally, King Biscuit takes one for the team. 

That's one of EVERYTHING

 

 Legs tiring... last stretch to Chatsworth House.

Brief photocall... then return the favour

 

Chatsworth House. Nice pad, Mr Duke. 

Only 4 miles to go, so time for serious snacking. Pimms, fizzy plonk and potted meat sarnies.

Outrageous. No strawberries...? 

So we conducted a wee experiment to find out how many 'Pimm' it takes to make the plural...

I forget the answer, but it concluded with bro having to push me up the final two ascents...

cheers bro... 

The Finishline! 

Unbelievable. They hand over yet more goodies, and try to make us eat yet more food... pork pies and L'Eroica beer.

A challenge too far... mind, the beer looks tempting...

 

So this fella may look cool - but he finished half an hour AFTER me

Team Bro... we did it!

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All Photos © Iain Stewart 2014