You got further than we did (the deathly silence was probably a clue). It was nowt spectacular that stopped us, just being a bit slow, and both of us getting struck by can't-be-arsedness at the same time. We got as far as Dunoon, but when we were in the cafe we kind of agreed that we weren't going to make it back before the last ferry.
Shame you didn't finish. I did think of you when we were in a chippie in Dumfries (The Noble Hill chippy, just about perfect fore this ride, as it has seats and a toilet, is on the main road and far enough out of the town centre to be fairly quiet). How was Erskine Bridge?
If I did try this ride again next year, I'd want to miss the huge leg on the A76. I hated that road. All the pissheads were out on the streets in the crap towns en route, and it wads just depressing. It was flooded on the way back south according to radio reports, and we couldn't be bothered to ride the whole distance back to Darlo, so we got a train as far as Carlisle, then came over Yad Moss.
Which turned out to be a lovely ride - we got hit by a massive rain shower and sidewinds descending Yad Moss, which was fun, then that shower's bigger brother caught up with us at Folly Top, and we had a mahoosive tailwind and some of the wettest rain I've ever experienced for the twenty miles back to Darlo. That was utterly bonkers - the rain was fountaining out of the drains. By the time we got back to Darlo, we were so wet that I told MSeries to go back through one of the puddles, so I could try to take some photos. The photos were crap, but the video's worth a look:
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/2tQ7dQv0F1s&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/2tQ7dQv0F1s&rel=1</a>]]>Try again next year?
