Rides in 2001

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This page covers activity in 2001

There were six rides, attempting 10 records, seven successes with three failures.

2001 Southern RRA
Purley to Eastbourne and back tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 4h 45m 20s for 99 miles

2001 Failed Eastern Counties RRA
London to Cambridge and back tandem-tricycle with Dave Johnson missed it by 4 minutes

2001 RRA #25 London to Portsmouth and back tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 6h 35m 5s for 146 miles

2001 RTTC 100 miles tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 20 minute beating of record but course 100 yards short

2001 Failed RRA London to Bath and back tandem-tricycle with Dave Johnson abandoned at 160 miles

2001 RRA #26 London to York tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 8h 56m 4s for 204 miles
2001 RRA #27 12 hours tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 265 miles
2001 RRA #28 London to Edinburgh tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 19h 40m 40s
2001 RRA #29 York to Edinburgh tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 10h 44m 20s
2001 RRA #30 24 hours tandem-tricycle with Marina Bloom 451 miles

We started brightly,

Report on Purley to Eastbourne and back with Marina Schedule for Purley Eastbourne and back

Marina's version of the ride - viewed from the back seat.

But then this...

Report on London to Cambridge and back fail - with Dave Schedule for London to Cambridge and back

We got quite a good day for this

Report for London to Portsmouth and back with Marina Schedule for London to Portsmouth and back

Marina's take on this, and a press cutting

But we weren't so fortunate here

Report of the Almost 100 - with Marina

Or here...

Report of London Bath & back, failure - with Dave Schedule for London Bath & back and 12 hours

I had quite forgotten the plan we had for attempting the 12 hour record off the end of the Bath & back.

Seems like a crazy idea, but we never got to test if it was plausible.

Mind you (and this really a digression), the combined attempt has been successfully delivered in the past. And frankly if you can read this story without a little smile on your face, you really are hard to please. It dates back to 1942 and is a magnificent illustration of how success can be achieved even in the face of inevitable failure.

Historic Bath Disaster (extracted from a recent Tricycle Association Gazette - I hope nobody minds it being included here)

I seem to remember George Lawrie telling me the story first hand back in the early 90s. Glad to have met him, 50 years on.

And now we reach that ride where we tried to do as many records as possible in one go. I'm aware that we could only realistically do this because most of our target were Lowest Standards rather than actual records, but we didn't take it easy. Indeed, as my Deadly Rival Dave Pitt said some years back, "It's not about how easy it was to break the record, it's about how tight a record you leave behind."

In this case, I think we left 3 good ones, one moderate one, and one easy one.

Report of London, York, Edinburgh, 12, 24 with Marina Schedule for London to Edinburgh, via York, 12 and 24

Actuals, Mike Bloom's account, weather, and a letter

As if that wasn't enough, Marina and I also had an unused schedule in for Birmingham to London.

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