Chris G’s cycling blogs. They’re for me, not you!

It’s that time again! After the absolute carnage of my jaunt to North Wales earlier in the year, I’ve decided I can’t be trusted out on my own for now, so decided to invite myself along on Frankie’s long planned trip across Hadrian’s Wall Way from Ravenglass in Cumbria across the top of England finishing in Tynemouth 3 days later, a jaunt of 170 miles or so mostly on quiet roads and bike paths. We’ll get to that anon…🤣 joining us early doors is Frankie’s biking buddy from Manchester Andy “the whippet” Francis, who is in for a proper baptism of fire as his normal routine is smashing round the Manchester hills at 18mph usually with Frankie and occasionally me, left floundering in his wake! Let’s see if we can break him and bring him down to our level over the 3 days! With Frankie doing all the organising, route (just you wait for this…) train times, dates and places to stay, and the route being at least partially in the North East, other interlopers from the previous debacle’s will be j...