North Coast 500 | Day Seven | Thurso
A day of changing plans as we are forced to divert from our route…
A day of changing plans as we are forced to divert from our route…
Another day of changing plans on our NC500 trip. This time the beach was too tempting to ignore.
Today we tackled over 24 short, Sharpe climbs, climbed 2,000 metres, met with masticating midges. The memory of these days improves with time.
A later start to a seemingly easier day with just three noticeable climbs in the offing.
Day Three of the North Coast 500 turns out to be a day of contrasts. Short, steep hills in the first half turn to long, easy climbing in the second.
Day Two of the North Coast 500 sees us tackling the highest mountain pass the route had to offer.
Cycling the North Coast 500. Starting out in Inverness and trying to get to Applecross, follow us on the first day of our trip to see how we got on.
With the most exciting Tour de France since the last most exciting one, we had to get over to Paris to be part of the background. This is the UK leg of our journey.
Despite waking in our own beds, we put thoughts of forgetting the whole thing to one side and were on the road by a respectable ten past nine. With another short day and with no more than 900 metres of … Continued
With our now well oiled morning routine held up as an shining example with which to shame our dried out bicycle chains and my treating the bikes to a little lube being likened giving our rides breakfast, the start of … Continued