It's for charity Monday 4th January 2010

[EasyTiger]

It's for charity on Monday 4th Jan 20101...
If any of you have been following Rob Edwards incident-packed circuit of the UK this Xmas, helped by a number of inventive and generous Tossers from Scotland, he's setting out on the last leg tomorrow (Carlisle to Llandudno).

He's on his way to from Glasgow to Carlisle today, where Dave from Storm Brewing will be meeting him with a loaner bike! (the original is currently dead for unknown reasons in Falkirk).

Rob will be setting off from Carlisle tomorrow morning Monday 4th January for the last leg. He'd be delighted if any of you wanted to join him for all or any part of what he hopes is the last day...

Timetable (The story so far, but keep watching for changes):

Carlisle: 7am - 8 Tilbury Road CA1 2SD
Blackpool Central Pier: 10am
Liverpool Liver Building: 12 noon
McDonald's Gateway Services A55 (W): 2pm

http://www.roundthecoastforcancer.co.uk/
Tel Rob on: 07527 795 958

 

[EasyTiger]

It's for charity on Monday 4th Jan 20101...
If any of you have been following Rob Edwards incident-packed circuit of the UK this Xmas, helped by a number of inventive and generous Tossers from Scotland, he's setting out on the last leg tomorrow (Carlisle to Llandudno).

He's on his way to from Glasgow to Carlisle today, where Dave from Storm Brewing will be meeting him with a loaner bike! (the original is currently dead for unknown reasons in Falkirk).

Rob will be setting off from Carlisle tomorrow morning Monday 4th January for the last leg. He'd be delighted if any of you wanted to join him for all or any part of what he hopes is the last day...

Timetable (The story so far, but keep watching for changes):

Carlisle: 7am - 8 Tilbury Road CA1 2SD
Blackpool Central Pier: 10am
Liverpool Liver Building: 12 noon
McDonald's Gateway Services A55 (W): 2pm CH7 6HB (37 miles, 48 mins by car to the finish...)

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=16&title=McDonald's Restaurant&countryCode=GB&qs=CH76HB
http://www.roundthecoastforcancer.co.uk/
Tel Rob on: 07527 795 958

Finish: car park on top of Great Orme
The Summit Complex, Great Orme Country Park, Llandudno, LL30 2XF
Oh, and then he's going to ride back to Macclesfield...

 

[EasyTiger]

Thanks to the help of all those on the way, Rob arrived tired but happy to stand on the Great Orme by 2.30. (Colder than he's ever been on the ride as he came over Shap...)

Now he's off riding back to Macc on the borrowed bike, back at the marina tomorrow, after a bath, bed and hopefully his kids tonight.

Ride safe, Rob...

Donations on his site are £1,509. He's got another £200 in loose change, and £100 in promises. Can we get him to two grand?
http://www.roundthecoastforcancer.co.uk/donate.html

You don't achieve the extraordinary by doing the ordinary...

 

[PW Cymru]

Great effort

 

[EasyTiger]

AND SO IT GOES...in Rob's Words...
"Mmmmm, hot bath, logs on the fire, homemade chicken balti, ----- was all I could think about on the way back from Llandudno, the last few miles seemed to take an age as the roads iced up before my eyes, but I made it and had all of the above. It's all over bar the Dead V in Scotland, so I guess another trip up is on the cards. I believe they are having a mild spell up north (only - so being as the weather is a bit soft up there at the mo, I`ll wait till it gets a bit worse - just to "keep my eye in" and make me feel at home. I will write a journal of the trip and if anyone wants a copy you are more than welcome.


Some stats for the Anoraks amongst you -
I slept on - 8 beds, 2 settees, 1 floor, 1 bar bench. Used 3 bikes, 7 buses, 4 cars and 3 transit vans. Mileage is a bit vague, the V was up to 2700 +. Transalp to JOG 390, Ninja will be 520, buses 750 approx, lifts 200. So a guess would be a TOTAL 4560 miles. Fuel stops 17.
Longest day, the last one - 475 icy cold miles. Most welcome stop was the hot shower after J.O.G at Johns house Inverness, it hurt at first but after ten minutes was so nice. Anstruther, The Great Glen and the barren J.OG. are favourites, with Mousehole a southern fave. Only 16 pints of Guinness !! - got some catching up to do there, 4 glasses wine, 2 champers and 3 bucks fizz (for breakfast new years day). 12 litres of water, 36 cups of tea, 3 latte`s, and just a paltry 4 wee drams, the majority of the alcoholic units were consumed at Johns Hooose !!! Inverness.
Funniest moment - the look on a postman's face as I came around a icy corner motoX style, crossed up sideways hollerin to myself.
Worst bit of the trip stuff was the demise of the V, the pain of J.O.G and Shap.
Best bit - The Finish Line.


However, the news of Terry's death from cancer knocked all of that into the bucket of insignificance, and there it shall remain.


"Do not go gentle into that good night". Dylan Thomas.
FIN
Untilthenextone. (Breast Way Round to fill in the bit missed on the bike, May)"

He's raised £2K so far - it's not too late to donate on his site.

 

[EasyTiger]

Rob can't post on this forum, so he asks me to pass on his thanks to all members for the messages of support, offers of help, donations, and beds/food/lifts etc.

He's raised £2,007.00 so far.

 

[EasyTiger]

There's a "short" account by Rob "The Iceman" Edwards of his journey at:
http://www.roundthecoastforcancer.co.uk/index.html

Thanks to the generosity of readers and riders, donations now stand at £2,367.