It's for charity on Monday 4th Jan 2010...

[EasyTiger]

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]

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...

 

[Les Wassall]

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...

Best warn him the snow is bad in Macclesfied and has not been gritted, just ice on the roads now

 

[EasyTiger]

Thanks for the warning, Les.
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...

 

[Les Wassall]

I can't believe I have not seen this before as i live in Congleton I am hugh supporter of Christies for all that they did for my Wife last year, I have just tried to donate but the site is down but I will make sure I get to it this week.

Well done Rob

 

[EasyTiger]

Cheers les - this is for you in particular..

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.

 

[EasyTiger]

Rob Edwards has been nominated for the Cherry Prize - awarded to the person judges deem to have made the most intrepid journey during the big freeze, to commemorate the centenary of Captain Scott's doomed trip to the Antarctic.

The Royal Society of Chemistry <http://www.rsc.org/> is looking for contenders who have shown outstanding fortitude and resolution or selflessness in the face of snow and icy conditions.

They want accounts and pictures, if possible, from people who have fought their way (to, or from, their workplaces) undeterred by deteriorating weather and transportation.

If you have any evidence demonstrating Rob’s pluck, selflessness, and patience send it as as emails, letters or images, still or moving to:
Brian Emsley
Media Relations Manager
Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA
Tel: +44 (0)20 7440 3317 or +44 (0) 7966 939257
Fax: +44 (0)20 7437 8883
You can email him through the Society's site
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/contacts/

The one-off Cherry prize is named after Apsley Cherry-Garrard who worked on the Scott scientific expedition but who missed out on joining the last, fatal leg that led to the deaths of heroes Scott, Bowers, Oates, Wilson and Evans.

Cherry-Garrard, who wrote The Worst Journey in the World about the 1910-1913 expedition, was in the team that found three frozen bodies of the polar party only 11 miles from shelter and with Scott’s diary that bore witness to his uncomplaining patriotic fellow sledgers.

Closing Date 21 January.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/w...he-big-freeze-in-honour-of-Captain-Scott.html

 

[EasyTiger]

An update about Rob's bike, "the Hog". The good news is it has been fixed by Kawasaki in Glasgow. (In my lay-speak, the electrics pod at the bottom of the ignition switch proved to have failed.) The better news is that D&K WILL pick the bike up next week and bring it back to Stoke for free -- nice one Kawasaki!
The momentum is dropping off now, what with world events and the terrible situation in Haiti. Sponsors have given £2,437.00 in donations so far. So, to push the total a little further, next week Rob's arranging an auction of memorabilia he gathered on the ride. This treasure has been locked inside the abandoned panniers abandoned with the bike...I'm sure he will take bids by mobile!
Rob's changing his website at the end of the week to focus on the auction, his aim to do the bit he missed by bike with the Breastway Round riders on the 27/28th May onwards (you can bid for place, guys, but I think you have to wear a pink bra on top of your leathers), and some astonishing future plans ...http://www.roundthecoastforcancer.co.uk/