This page covers activity in 1996
There were four rides, all successes, yielding five records.
1996 RRA #16 Cardiff to London solo tricycle 6h 45m 59s for 150 miles
1996 RRA #17 York to Edinburgh solo tricycle 8h 39m 43s for 186 miles
1996 Southern RRA Purley to Eastbourne and back solo tricycle 4h 35m 45s for 99 miles
1996 RRA #18 12 hours solo tricycle 266.3 miles
1996 RRA #19 Land's End to London solo tricycle 13h 16m 13s for
290 miles
Report for Cardiff to London Schedule for Cardiff to London
Weather charts, split times etc
This next one was a bit intimidating. The record was broken 4 times in the early 1960s. John Parr, John Pardoe and John Parr again took it down from 10h 28m to 10h 4m. Then John Arnold came along. He produced a stupefying 8h 48m to scare everyone off for a few decades.
Report for York to Edinburgh Schedule for Edinburgh to York or reverse
Actuals, weather charts etc RRA Ledger extract for the early 1960s.
And then, for reasons outlined in the report, we re-awakened the Southern RRA
Report for Purley to Eastbourne and back Schedule for Purley to Eastbourne and back
(at the start of the report, I say that this was my first 'regional' record attempt. This seems to have forgotten the Scottish stuff in 1993)
And just a few days later, this:
Report for Land's End to London Schedule for Land's End to London
I was making my way through the solo tricycle records quite nicely, and was getting to the point where I needed to diversify before I ran out of options!
Unsurprisingly, record attempts on a tandem-tricycle suddenly became of interest again. I wasn't likely to ride with Dave Pitt (as was planned 10 years earlier), but Gerry Lewis had both the machinery and the enthusiasm to give such ideas potential to become reality.
Accordingly, I submitted a Schedule for Land's End to London with Gerry Lewis on tandem-tricycle. Nothing came of it on this occasion, but we did get some rides done in 1997.
Continuing the tradition, this was my fourth year of submitting paperwork for the (solo) London to Brighton and back.