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Since returning from the \u2018big ride\u2019 \u00ad over two years ago now \u00ad I’ve been clocking up quite large\u00a0<\/span>mileages. What with 4\u00ad – 5 sessions a week of cycle training with schools during term time, occasional\u00a0<\/span>rides up to Scotland to visit a Buddhist Centre and trips to visit friends and family, I\u2019ve been\u00a0<\/span>covering about 8,000 miles a year. All very well for maintaining cycle fitness and my green\u00a0<\/span>credentials as a cycling commuter but it\u2019s not exactly touring.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve been passing myself off as a \u2019seasoned\u2019 tourer since finishing the circumnavigation [Ernie cycled around the world in 2005] but have\u00a0<\/span>not yet completed the classic, must do tour in the UK, namely the Land\u2019s End to John O\u2019Groats, or\u00a0<\/span>vice versa, ride. So, the long summer holidays of 2009 are approaching; the last School courses\u00a0<\/span>will be finished by the end of July; it\u2019s time to \u201cknock the bastard off\u201d as Sir Edmund Hillary said\u00a0<\/span>in 1953 on his return from the summit of Mt Everest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Having talked to all and sundry about doing the ride (I always find this the best way to motivate\u00a0<\/span>myself into getting started; it sort of \u2018locks\u2019 one into it with so many people informed) the choice\u00a0<\/span>of route crossed my mind. Should I do a north\u00adsouth or a south\u00adnorth? I chose the latter based on\u00a0<\/span>the rationale that the prevailing wind would be behind me. Although just as many people seem to\u00a0<\/span>do the ride the other way and don\u2019t report it being any more difficult. Since it\u2019s such a well\u00a0<\/span>traveled journey, and not wishing to reinvent the wheel, I decided to download the CTC\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>recommended route and use that as a basis for my ride. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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My map preference since army days has\u00a0<\/span>always been 1:50,000 OS sheets. These are ideal in terms of detail for both walking and cycling,\u00a0<\/span>although on a bike, the distances covered mean carrying lots of maps. On walking trips in days\u00a0<\/span>gone by, eg Pennine Way, I’ve often cut up strips of OS sheets showing just a few miles either side\u00a0<\/span>of my route in order to keep the weight down. This can become rather wasteful, not to mention\u00a0<\/span>expensive, though. CTC recommend purchasing a Philip\u2019s road atlas with loose leaves and one of\u00a0<\/span>those plastic spiral ring binders. These give ample detail for road cycling and, 22 of the appropriate\u00a0<\/span>pages taken out and carried in a plastic folder, doesn’t add significantly to ones load. \u00a0<\/span>Apart from\u00a0<\/span>minimal shading and the occasional \u2018crow\u2019s foot\u2019 arrow on the roads, there is of course no contour\u00a0<\/span>detail, so some of the hills come as a bit of a surprise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Train was the obvious mode of travel down to Penzance, the nearest station to Land\u2019s End, so on\u00a0<\/span>the 13th July off I went to Piccadilly Station in Manchester to book my ticket for the end of the\u00a0<\/span>month. Although friends keep telling me that it\u2019s cheaper to book in advance on line, I like to do\u00a0<\/span>these things face to face across a counter. However, I might just take their advice in future; it cost\u00a0<\/span>me \u00a383.80 for a single journey, this included a discount for my old codger\u2019s rail card. And the\u00a0<\/span>journey can\u2019t be done directly these days; three different legs; two changes. What a palaver! Bring\u00a0<\/span>back British Rail.\u00a0<\/span>Hitherto, I\u2019ve always toured for my own selfish pleasure or sense of achievement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hitherto,\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0always\u00a0toured\u00a0for\u00a0my\u00a0own\u00a0selfish\u00a0pleasure\u00a0or\u00a0sense\u00a0of\u00a0achievement.\u00a0However, a\u00a0<\/span>couple of days before the off, people where I now live suggested that I should try and raise some\u00a0<\/span>money for a worthy cause; put my efforts to good use so to speak. They suggested the Harley\u00a0<\/span>Slack Fund. Harley is three years old, suffers from Meningitis B and has had all four limbs\u00a0<\/span>removed. His full heart\u00adbreaking story can be seen on http:harleyslackfund.giving.officelive.com<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>It transpired that two cyclists from Stockport, Mike Hulbert and William Watkins, had set off from\u00a0<\/span>John O\u2019Groats on the 25th July heading for Land\u2019s End in order to raise money for the fund. What\u00a0<\/span>better than for me to add my efforts to the cause.\u00a0I hastily designed a simple sponsorship form and\u00a0distributed it around various people and organisations I thought likely to contribute. All done in a\u00a0bit of a last minute rush but we might just raise a few bob.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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On Thursday 30th July, out came tent and sleeping bag from under my bed, camping stove and\u00a0<\/span>cooking equipment from the cupboard under the kitchen sink and an assortment of clothes from\u00a0<\/span>out of the wardrobe and four panniers were filled \u00ad with too much kit as usual. The alarm was set\u00a0<\/span>to allow me enough time to eat my now customary bowl of porridge, load up the bike and pedal <\/span>down to Piccadilly in time for the 7.26 train to Birmingham New Street, the first leg of my\u00a0<\/span>journey to Penzance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I fell asleep wondering how long the ride would take.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ernie Buck is 66 years old and has lived in various parts of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Yorkshire for the last 30 years. A continual commuting cyclist,<\/span><\/span>he has done a number of long distance solo expeditions <\/span><\/span>within the UK, but dreamt of cycling to India and beyond for years.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Having arrived in India in early 2006, Ernie continued on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>around the world and made it back to Liverpool 17\/12\/2006,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>across the Atlantic aboard the vessel MV Reinbek <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span>some 17 months after he left the UK in July 2005.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009 Ernie did the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Land’s\u00a0End\u00a0to\u00a0John\u00a0O’Groats cycle ride.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The next episode of Ernie’s journey will appear in the February edition of Many Roads.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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