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Introduction

Ride Wrap: For those who just want the skinny.

Bruce's Conclusions

Bob's Conclusions

Dave's Conclusions

Finances

Preparations

      Stoking the fire

      Revisions, Revisions.: It is all about the bike.

      More Detail on the Plan: Update by Bob: 19th September 2005

      Incremental progress: By Bruce

      Another Crazy Guy: David Irvine signs on

      A Change Of Plan: MANLEMANJOG

      Manly Men on the move: Or how we got from there to here.

      Reality sets in: This is a serious undertaking

      The FINAL Draft Route

      Nollaig Sogail !: Santa has arrived

      Trek 520 update: Skip this if you are in a hurry or easily bored

      The Upside of Global Warming: Getting my stuff together

      Tweaking, Tweaking.

      Planning Fruition - by Bob: (Hesitate to say Culmination)

      Rail Rail, Part 1: First AMTRAK, now First Scotrail

      Rail Rale, Part 2: Lets hope a month of cycling teaches me to drive on the left

      Last Shakedown: Stinking with the fishes

      Let's go: We are all in the same hemisphere

      Interim update: All is well

Tour 1. All England, but still not all of England: Pennines, Thames Valley, Avon Canal and West Country to Land's End

      Day 0: Assemble at Hatters in Manchester

      The Peak District: New Mills to Hartington

      The Derbyshire Dales: Hartington To Etwall

      The National Forest: Etwall to West Haddon

      The Chilterns: West Haddon to Oxford

      Upper Thames Valley: Oxford to Maidenhead

      Thameside Paths: Maidenhead to London (Holland Park)

      Day 7: So Far So Good: .......... Rest Day in London

      A Head Start by Train: Maidenhead to Reading

      Wiltshire Downs: Reading to Amesbury

      Salisbury Plain: Amesbury to Bath

      Traffic builds up: Bath to Bishops Lydeard

      Ups and downs in Devon: Bishops Lydeard to South Zeal

      Too many hills and a train ride through Plymouth: South Zeal to Gunnislake

      More help from the train: Golant to Par and Penzance to Land's End

      Day 15: Rest day in Manchester

      Day 16: Rest Day in Manchester

Tour 2. Scotland here we come.: Upper Pennines, Cumbria, Scottish Borders, and across the Grampians.

      "Last of the Summer Wine": Manchester to Holmfirth

      Pennine Moorlands: Holmfirth to Colne

      Yorkshire Dales: Colne to Dentdale

      Across Cumbria: Dentdale to Carlisle

      Day 21: Rest Day in Carlisle: Bus Trip to Hadrian's Wall

      Scottish Borders: Carlisle to Eskdalemuir

      Interim update from Lockerbie

      A Highland Festival: Eskdalemuir to Innerleithen

      Detour via Peebles: Innerleithen to Edinburgh

      Day 25: Rest Day in Edinburgh

      Into Strath Tay: Perth to Pitlochry

      Mountain Passes: Pitlochry to Carrbridge

      Three Firths: Carrbridge to Culrain (train and bike)

      North Coast at last: Culrain to Bettyhill

      Not Quite There: Bettyhill to Canisbay

      John O'Groats at last: ... and a day tour in the Orkney Islands

      Day 32: Taxi, train and van: ..........John O' Groats to Manchester

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