Month: January 2018

  • Naruto-Minami Awaji Whirlpools Fan Ride

    Naruto-Minami Awaji Whirlpools Fan Ride

    The Naruto-Minami Awaji Whirlpools Fan Ride is a couple of courses, one 65km and another 120km, to be run on March 18. The Naruto Whirlpools are found in the Naruto strait between Shikoku and Awaji in the Seto inland sea. Onaruto bridge offers an overhead view of the whirlpools to pedestrians. The ride is at…

  • Shimanami Kaido

    Shimanami Kaido is a route bridging the islands between Hiroshima and Shikoku in Japan’s Inland Sea. It’s also a very popular cycling route for beginners on up, with cycle rentals and cyclist-friendly stops all along the route, as well as ferries between various islands. With the quality rental bikes available, you don’t even need to…

  • Beaumont to tackle hour record on penny farthing

    Beaumont to tackle hour record on penny farthing

    Mark Beaumont, just back from a blistering 78-day round-the-world ride, has set his sights on the hour record on a penny farthing, The Scottish Sun reports. The current record of 23.5 miles was set by Frederick J. Osmond in 1891. While Mark admits he gets some funny looks when training around the parks of Edinburgh,…

  • I’m really sorry that you can’t be here

    I’m really sorry that you can’t be here

    Alee of CyclingAbout.com, previously featured here, has released Episode 1 of his tour CyclingAbout the Americas. Make sure to watch the tour of the bus shelter, and marvel at the winds that hold our intrepid rider down to a mere 5km/h of progress … nay, even force him to walk! Despite the massive winds, and…

  • Ready Spready Go

    We’re planning on reaching Scotland in late June or early July, so we probably won’t need to consult Transport Scotland’s Trunk Road Gritter Tracker. However, I’m not quite willing to leave this to chance, so I’m saving the link here. Many of the gritters have been assigned names by schoolchildren, and the tracker allows you…

  • lejog in 4 days

    The Hogmanay LEJOG team have made it! We’ll let a trio of tweets speak for themselves: We made it at 5am. Last 50 miles were horrendously icy. 1,401km in exactly four days. Thanks to everyone who supported us. #hogmanayLEJOG pic.twitter.com/sKGBemqTi4 — Emily Chappell (@emilychappell) January 2, 2018 Well done team. Winter LeJog in four days.…

  • Hogmanay LEJOG

    Jenny, Huw and Emily are on track to arrive in time for the Hogmanay New Year’s festival in Scotland, having ridden nearly 1,000 miles in four days. Meanwhile, they’ve raised more than £2,300 for the homeless. We rode exactly 400km yesterday, through wind, rain, hail and darkness. Enjoyed fine food and 3.5 hours sleep in…