Border Raid 600 2017

[madcow]

I've entered (last big push before LEL ) and I will be taking the motor home up to Kirkley so that I can be right on the doorstep for the start.
Mrs. M is also tempted to come up as well. Will there be anyone else around during the event?

[Bairn Again]

I had contemplated it given its my nearest calendar 600 to home in Edinburgh but wasn't sufficiently committed to get an entry in before they closed.

Im eying a DIY600 either the weekend before the Border Raid or the same weekend (unlikely to venture south onto the same roads though)

[Deano]

Looks like I'm stamping cards at Topcliffe.

Weirdly, we ran into Aidan last week in Sedbergh while he was checking out the route, so you can have a sneak preview of the food on offer at the control:



And he's off.

[Feanor]

This would have been my 600 this year if my holliberries had not got in the way.

Good luck to all riders, and kudos to all helpers.
The pizza looks like Teh Nom.

[Deano]

Only a fiver for that pizza, too.

FYI: the town fair will be on in Sedbergh so you'll have to fight your way past the bouncy castle to get there.

[Pingu]

Looking forward to the pizza :-p

That fair was quite entertaining last year. See you in Topcliffe, Deano.

[madcow]

I saw Aidan last Saturday as well. I was on my way up to Barney and he was ,well, somewhere along my route.

[Pingu]

July 2016 in Sedbergh hmm...

 https://goo.gl/maps/t9Dmds4XLFz

 

[aidan.f]

29 starters, 28 still on the road. I'm off to Lockerbie truck stop. The welcomer. 

[Graeme]

I wonder who the guest entertainment at Lockerbie will be this year.

[Deano]

Aidan's doing a medley of Songs from the Shows.

[aidan.f]

Gonna have to disappoint you. Turning in early. Warm room for £22 is hard to.turn down. Stephen and the staff are ready  for you other  guests i will see some of the riders at 5am. 

[Mrs Pingu]

Had a missive from Pingu at 0127 declaring it a horrible day for a bike ride. Hope everyone dries out today.

[aidan.f]

Weather on the up, sunny and tailwind at least as far as Seahouses.

[αdαmsκι]

Had a missive from Pingu at 0127 declaring it a horrible day for a bike ride. Hope everyone dries out today.

Similar messages were received from Papa αdαmsκι regarding yesterday.

He was at Wooler at about 3pm, from where it's about another 100km.

[Mrs Pingu]

I got a msg at 1539 about 'bananas and jelly babies part sea houses'. I presumed it meant somewhere after Seahouses.

[αdαmsκι]

7km left for Papa αdαmsκι at 8:25pm.

[madcow]

As Father Ted once said;- "a grand bunch of lads" If we hadn't joined up as a mini peloton making our way up Wensleydale into the wind ,
 then I reckon it would have been a lot,lot  harder as soloists.
It went a bit wrong after Sedbergh (my impatience), joined up again at Penrith and stayed together through the night up to Longtown.
 It was good to have a bit of company through the darkness. Thanks.
(That's an MGB GT V8 in the showroom behind them)

Border Raid 2017

The morning stretch from Moffat to Galashiels was magnificent (except for some dodgy road surfaces. If you like scenery, you should definitely put this on your list of rides to do.

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Cappercleugh

Thank you to Aidan and his team for the camping both before and after the ride as well as the beer and beans on toast at the end .

[Von Broad]

If you like scenery, you should definitely put this on your list of rides to do.

Not sure what kind of state my Audax career is in at the moment - finished or temporarily in abeyance - but I've always had a big, big interest in this ride, not because of the sense of the spectacular or the sexy, but because it just seems to encapsulate what a lot of big Audax rides are about - namely, you're out there in he wilderness on your own [often] with bugger all help, and basically.....that's it, deal with it or be done for. Get through that, then you're good to go for other things.

Would like to think I can make 2019 [if it's still running].