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Dwight and Lewis entertain on: Summer Cycling Tour of the UK: 49 days +  2000 miles = all for nothing?!
"All that way and we ended up in the same place" (Lewis, aged 11)

Hear more about our adventures, a UK record, at this 'open house' event at a great venue:

Where:       Wanstead Cricket Club, Overton Drive, (nr. St Marys Chuch)

When          22nd November 5.30pm   finish by 8pm 

Who:            Dwight (Chair of Wanstead Park) and son Lewis (aged 11)
What:         An entertaining couple of hours on: who, how, where and why. Including a selection of the best stories, pictures, video clips, and interviews with hosts and people we met on the way.  Get interactive with the actual bikes & gear and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers! 

Added bonus of good news about Wanstead Park to be announced. 
Nibbles available with a pay bar (so can't be that bad!)

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07973 131 429

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Last last blog

Sooo this is my last post I'm told by mum and dad. So thank you to all the people who have put us up or have had interviews with us. Thank you to all the people who have followed our blog even only for a few days or put comments on. Thanks to mum for letting dad drag me on this trip and thanks to dad for dragging me and its been a pleasure annoying him. We've had a great time meeting new people and going new places. Can I also remind anyone who put us up that there welcome to stay. Some of my favourite times were going in the campervan with Gabrielle and Chris and three nights in Ullapool. This is my last blog unless its some little things from dad. Bye.

Dwight and Lewis's Big Adventure Summer 2014

Cycle red lines
Train green lines
Rough Guide

Probably last day

Today our last or maybe even second last I'm not sure we cycled 52miles from Peterhead to Edinburgh. This morning we had something special for breakfast we had something called veggie butteries they were basically just a squashed crossiant made of literally just sugar and fat stuff I have to say it wasn't the best. We didn't really stop today apart from the trains we cycled straight to Aberdeen a few light showers we arrived at 12. Then we got to the station and bought lunch which consisted of crisps each, a sandwich each, a big cup of coffee for dad and and orange juice for me. We got on and off it at Dundee for dad as he wanted to see the boat exibition discovery centre it was a rip off but we learned quite a bit and went on the ship itself dad was happy about that then we got on to another train and it took us then to Inverkiething. It was raining then but we had to cycle and in the end it stopped anyway. We came to The Forth Bridge and dad was happy crossing that and seeing the railway bridge not faraway as well that was interesting and the railway bridge looked complicated. In the present now I'm at home after gran's funeral on Saturday I'm now continuing this from where I left off. Any way we cycled in to Edinburgh and found a reastuant for dinner on the top of a building with a nice view and dad said he had been there before when it was a different reastruant. We had an excellent dinner and met some TV sort of people called Nick and Marina, we did an interview with them and as they were meeting someone and were to busy they gave us some tickets to a stand up comedy! We went to watch it and it was quite good but near the end the guy kind of lost it and just talked but it was good. It was 10:30ish so we basically got our bike to the station bought some food and waited for the train we got on without to much fuss apart from some kind of aurgument I think dad had with the woman train person and we got moved to a different sleeper cabin. Before bed we also had a cheese board in the buffet car then we went to bed. We got to London and the trains weren't working in Stratford or something so we cycled 8 miles back to home which felt very easy and I have to stop now to get to bed and maybe tommorow I can finish some other stuff. Bye

Stats

Bike repairs===

1 puncture ! Amazing.
1 bottom bracket on Dad's bike.
1 derailleur and bracket (Lewis bike)
Please refer to swearing incident. ...

1 bike sat-nav (rubbish bits of kit)

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Distance actually cycled  2000  miles (200 hours riding!)
Trains taken 5 covering distance of approx 250 miles 
Distance not covered due to stopping in Edinburgh 400miles or so.
Average mileage 47 miles per day.
Total days 49
Rest days 7
Max in 1 day 87 miles
Average speed 10 mph including tea photo direction breaks.
Max speed 43 mph/68.8 kph
Steepest climb 30%
Steepest decent 40%
Slowest speed walking. climbing and beach combing!
Fastest 1 hour average 20 mph

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Weight lost 2kg by Dwight Lewis none

maximum cycle bag weight 9kg

water carried 3 x 750ml plus 1nos 500ml

special diet vitamins and malt loaf!

sweets eaten ...loads.

meals per day 4!

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Most expensive b&b £75
Cheapest £50 (apart from those kindly paid for so generous others. 8 places)

48 nights:-
- 1 overnight train. plus 1 night at home!
3 hostels
2 camping

1 mobile home.

8 Warmshowers / Couch surfing hosts
17  Friends and friends of friends etc (6 of those for 2 nights ie rest days.)
8 Nights paid for by friends and family

All places offered except 8.. incredible.thank you all.

trip cut short by 11 days including 2 rest days.

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Toughest cycling Devon and Cornwall.(many steep ascents and having breaking on descents)

All of the rest of UK was relatively easy.

Most fun day for Dwight Blackpool.... but so many good things hard to say.

Lewis voted best night Woolacombe.

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photos taken 1200 plus.

1 minute interviews. 40 plus.

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best animals:-. tortoise. hedgehog. seal.?? but met loads of dogs cats horses sheep cows. birds. insects/bugs

Euston arrival