Website of tours in Italy and the English Lake District

Hi
I have recently joined this forum so thought I'd post up details of my web site.
This has info on tours I've done in Italy since 1998, some info on English Lake District rides (where I live) and its also the home of 'Cycling before Lycra' - a look back at how it was here in the 1930's and 1940's for my parents.
The address is...

http://www.bikeit.eclipse.co.uk

Cheeers... Allan.

Nice website Allan. It was very usefull for me when I visited the Lake district last year!! Welcome to the BIG-challenge.
Greetings,
Martin

Thanks Martin. Glad you found it useful. Hope you had a good time over here? Are you coming back to bag Hardknott?

I can't beleive some of the totals some folk have on this BIG site. Amazing! Don't they work?

Thanks again... Allan.

My first job is president of the challenge B.I.G
Second job : cycloclimber during some holidays
third job, the work : teacher 5 days a week
Welcome in the crazy group, Allan

a-nelson wrote:

Thanks Martin. Glad you found it useful. Hope you had a good time over here? Are you coming back to bag Hardknott?

I can't beleive some of the totals some folk have on this BIG site. Amazing! Don't they work?

Thanks again... Allan.

I certainly hope to come back to do the Hard Knott and Honister (and more climbs in GB) . It's a pitty that I couldn't climb those two killers in Cumbria because of a silly accident with my bike near Ambleside. I had a serious knee injury and it was impossible to do 2 climbs on 1 day. One climb was allready a hell of a job!
I liked the area very much. Kind people, lovely landscape and beautifull clmbs!!

daniel gobert wrote:

My first job is president of the challenge B.I.G
Second job : cycloclimber during some holidays
third job, the work : teacher 5 days a week
Welcome in the crazy group, Allan

I don't see the job 'Married' there

Martin Kool wrote:

It's a pitty that I couldn't climb those two killers in Cumbria because of a silly accident with my bike near Ambleside. I had a serious knee injury and it was impossible to do 2 climbs on 1 day. One climb was allready a hell of a job!
I liked the area very much. Kind people, lovely landscape and beautifull clmbs!!

That's a real shame - as you know, Hardknott is just over the 'hill' from Wrynose

Really has to be done from the other side though (Boot). That's the real tough side.

You'll have to get over and ride the Fred Whitton Challenge (112 miles). That'll give you Kirkstone, Honister, Hardknott and Wrynose on the BIG list, plus lots of others that aren't!

a-nelson wrote:

daniel gobert wrote:

My first job is president of the challenge B.I.G
Second job : cycloclimber during some holidays
third job, the work : teacher 5 days a week
Welcome in the crazy group, Allan

I don't see the job 'Married' there

Oh, so sorry ! Yes, I'm; but it's of course the first job of all and the hardest (I had the wish to write the steepest) one. Does she love the challenge ? It's another question

Well, let's be serious ! I had a fantastic souvenir of the succession with Wrynose and Hard Knott Pass. Tremendous 1:3 gradients

daniel gobert wrote:

Well, let's be serious ! I had a fantastic souvenir of the succession with Wrynose and Hard Knott Pass. Tremendous 1:3 gradients

A great souvenier indeed. I live nearby but still limit myself to riding Hardknott from Boot to 2-3 times a year - that is enough!

Perhaps you too should consider coming over for the Fred Whitton Challenge. It's a great event - run for charity and is regarded by many as the hardest sportif ride in the country. My friedn from Italy came over this year to ride it and thought it was beautiful.
I've done it 3 times now (the last time was a disaster and I really struggled). I think I may give it a rest next year. Once my friend is back to full fitness, I'm sure we'll do it again. We did it on a tandem and that was great fun - though Hardknott is brutally hard on a tandem

Do you know that the official BIG's rendezvous in 2010 is in your region ?

daniel gobert wrote:

Do you know that the official BIG's rendezvous in 2010 is in your region ?

No, I didn't know that Daniel. Are there more details somewhere on the web site? I'll have no excuse not to attend will I
I posted a message on a bike forum about this site the other day and I see that a few have signed up and started putting their claims in.

Click on "england 2010" in http://www.challenge-big.eu/meetings.htm !
The manager is Kevin Speed and he will be very happy to meet someone like you for this event.
Thank you so much for your help to welcome new and good english or scottish cycloclimbers in our challenge.
Great luck for us to have met you somewhere through Internet.

a-nelson wrote:

Hi
I have recently joined this forum so thought I'd post up details of my web site.
This has info on tours I've done in Italy since 1998, some info on English Lake District rides (where I live) and its also the home of 'Cycling before Lycra' - a look back at how it was here in the 1930's and 1940's for my parents.
The address is...
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http://www.bikeit.eclipse.co.uk

Cheeers... Allan.

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