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This is the homepage of the Consett Clowns - a group of drinking buddies mostly from Consett or the surrounding area. This website chronicles our cycling exploits from re-learning to ride in early 2006 to our first Coast to Coast ride and beyond. The group has expanded from the 7 original riders to 13 riders in 2008 as we tackled our third big ride from Whitehaven to Tynemouth via the Reivers Cycle Route and settled at 9 riders for the fourth big ride from Edinburgh to Newcastle on the Coast and Castles route. Since starting has notched up over 15,000 miles in the saddle between them (that's over half way around the Earth!).

News

21/06/2009: I believed in Simon... Pics online.

18/06/2009: sic infit...

23/05/2009: Less than 4 weeks to go, hope you lot have been training...

18/01/2009: The Coast and Castles route info is now online.

2009

With the dark nights and cold weather, thoughts must turn to what we'll be doing when it gets warmer in 2009. Voting has finished and the Coast and Castles won with a landslide:

  • 1 vote for Hadrians Cycleway
  • 8 votes for Coast and Castles
  • 0 votes for Three Rivers
  • 0 votes for Isle of Arran
  • 2 votes for London to Paris
  • 0 votes for Coast to Coast (2 Days)

Always gluttons for punishment, Graeme D, Banners and Martin P are going to do the Hadrians Cycleway unsupported in September, making the Coast and Castles just a little warm-up. It's going to be the most alcohol free bike ride ever!

2008

With the 2007 ride out of the way, thought turned to what we're going to do in 2008. The People's Democratic Republic of Consett voted in their tens and the Reivers Cycle Route won in a landslide victory even a tinpot Central African dictator would be proud of. Having already ticked off two of the major Cumbria to North East routes, it would have been a shame not to head west one more time.

He's more machine now than man, Banners spends a day in the saddle to knock off the W2W.

2007

11 unfit blokes think they're clever and do the Walney to Wear route for a laugh. They're not laughing by the end of day one!

One man, one bike, one day. Guest rider Banners shows how it's done with the one day C2C.

2006

7 unfit blokes, some dangerously close to a mid-life crisis, decide to cycle across the country. Read about the Coast to Coast 2006.

Recent Changes

Jun 2623:15 - Coast And Castles/Bike Ride2009/Photo Gallery new
 23:14 - Coast And Castles/Bike Ride2009/Top Menu 
Jun 2223:30 - Coast And Castles/Bike Ride2009 
 23:04 - People Page 

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Edited June 21, 2009