Ride The Line | Short Documentary

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Bradley and Mike take on a monumental challenge to raise money for their recovering family member, cycling 300km in one day from Gloucester to Elland Road, Leeds.

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• Bradley Yorke
• Michael Yorke
• Robert Yorke

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• Produced by – Elliot Lush, Matthew Reese, Callum Wilkins and Bradley Yorke
• Directed by – Matthew Reese
• Director of Photography – Elliot Lush
• Gaffer – Frankie Ashcroft
• Camera Operators – Elliot Lush and Matthew Reese
• First Assistant Director – Bradley Yorke
• Sound Recordist – Callum Wilkins
• Sound Designer – Matthew Reese
• Dubbing Mixer – Will Cart
• Music – Greg Illidge
• Editor – Callum Wilkins
• Colourist – Summer Vasare Piscikaite
• Motion Designer – Danny Staab

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I said well what am I going to say he said you’re going to say good he said that’s what you always say when something is wrong and going bad you always just look at me and say good and I said well yeah when things are going bad there’s going to be some

Good that’s going to come from it get all bummed out don’t don’t get startled don’t get frustrated if you can say the word good guess what it means you’re still alive it means you’re still breathing breathing still breathing well now you still got some fight left in

You oh God oh God what am I doing what am I I doing boys idiot I don’t have a choice to fail love you Dad there is no fail four years ago today my dad was diagnosed uh with brain tumor which came as a shock to everyone

Because my dad’s always been a fitness guy he was my football coach from when I was 5 years old yeah he was always active so it came to a massive surprise to us that like his health could be in any way shape or form deteriorating you know as a

Nephew it was you know full on he always had a nurse in his room Sat by his bed it was that intensive three years on from that he’s at home and he’s got his own form of Independence but the four walls that surround him aren’t accessible enough for him to

Live hello that’s for it Rob how do we how do we help you how do we get to the next stage what do we do how do we go from there we’re getting into a rhythm into a nice Rhythm uh putting putting what we’ve trained for

Into action yeah my out record will be two and a half hours to the next stop so if we can get there about half eight quarter n that’ be tidy should we go no hiccups yeah no hiccups yet so the whole point of the bike ride

Is to raise money so we can renovate his house uh to make it way more accessible for him to have grab handles a shower downstairs and just more open plan all those things which we all take for granted those things have been taken away this by cried is going to raise

Awareness and money which is going to be life changing what the Sher what it I’m doing this for Rob finally out of and I’m raising money to make Rob’s life better even if we just just 100 quid buy that one handle and fit it so that Rob can’t fall over when

He’s next to the kitchen makes the entire cycle worth it if you ask Me check to May it’s good Pace though is it it’s great pace we’re half an hour early yeah thought we’d be here about 9: so it’s Happy Days 100% hungry now is are needed so we got about just short of 3 hours up to Derby about 30 miles we’re still not

Even close to halfway though so don’t say that we’ll see hopefully shouldn’t been too bad of Nick in 3 hours time yeah if we’re good the fun stuff starts if I feel like this in 3 hours then I I’ll be happy with pretty happy with that I’ve always had in mind

Ever since uh my dad’s brain tumor that I would want to do something of scale to raise money or awareness or whatever it is joined us at a great time lovely it was originally Mike’s idea and he just went well could this work I got quite fun of watching YouTube videos

Doing challenges things that difficult one of the people I was watching put a video out saying I’ve done the cycle it’s called the sunrise to sunset cycle across England and I watched it and I thought I could do that let text br br like man what if we do something like

This right we got a B nice stratch the idea was well let’s leave from Rob’s house that’s a no-brainer what are the significant places in life that Rob enjo Ley night did my dad’s beloved football club right well let’s go to leag United then let’s go to Ellen R

Let’s cycle from Huck Co to elen R yeah it looks disgustingly far but let’s just do it it’s it sounds too impossible to be true so let’s do it what’s the barrier Fitness well let’s go training sounded really easy in June these points in the races are absolutely suck legs are burning it’s

Gradually uphill that’s now in training was probably when I realized oh dear little Hills like this about 5 hours ago nothing but now it’s one part of the cycle we’re cycling up a hill Brad was just behind me and I’ve turned around to look at Brad I’ve

Looked straight forward but my handle have kicked to the left hit the side of the road and it’s gone into this little hedge R next to us my bike stopped I’ve tried to uncp my foot it hasn’t come out and I’ve just literally Fallen just sideways straight into the

Bush Brad was roaring my laughter behind me but got about 20 seconds of rest you just got to keep going that was the toughest one so far yeah but we reached halfway about a mile ago so that was like that was good yay I only did two bike rides before this one

Was 127k which was the first one and then I did 100K now we’re at 133 so everything from here I did Uncharted Territory I’ve done a few but my biggest ones were 150 and 155 so I’m about 20K away from Uncharted Territory thing is you can’t can’t do all of this and not

Enjoy not enjoy a beer at halfway moment you absolutely can cuz I’m not absolutely can 128 calories much needed thank you and it doubles up his pain Rel and this next stretch is going to be painful I didn’t know I was going to be on that bike for another 11 hours if I

Have known at that point how difficult the rest was going to be I’d have had more than one beer just having to put that little bit more effort into each each stroke cuz you can feel every single stroke yeah cycling to leads is a very long way but fundamentally you are just putting

One pedal in front of the other for nearly 19 hours by fixating on a white line you’re just taking away all the other noise of raining I’m cold I’m freezing just watch the line and just follow it you can almost eliminate everything around you and just focus on

That white line you versus that white line and just crack On just in a in a a that’s dirt and that’s clean the back of my left knee is fully in seven out of tempay every movement is Savage and my my back’s hurting my hands hurt my mind is shattered and I where did that sun

Go the thing is this going to get so much harder now it’s raining Raining till 10:00 now is it yeah well who wants it to be easy the biggest hill starts now literally right there so here we go we know in the next 20 minutes half an hour we’re getting on oh Christ thank you very much nothing’s going to help me at this point up until Matlock things were going okay we get to to Matlock we’re pretty wet but we’re not soaked what we knew though at Matlock was straight after was the two biggest hills of the ride you missed the hardest

Bit of the whole thing it looks pretty hard right now he for for the lot of the ride obviously me and Mike were together so once I’d taken that quick look behind me and not seen him I didn’t know if I’d stopped whether I could carry on I just had to

Keep going but I knew he was going to rejoin me Brad’s shot off ahead my knees hurt in every push my knees sending a shooting pain up my leg just cycle push up follow the white line look at that get that 14% that is brutal go and find

Mike tell him to keep going I’ll slow down on the flats so he can catch up I get to the top of the hill straight after the first biggest hill is a downhill and then it’s straight into the second biggest hill of the whole ride it’s tough man I H was so difficult

Dr oh it’s Exhausted you want to stop for a bit I turned around he wasn’t there and I was like if I stop now I lose all my momentum we are waiting for Mike at the top of the topest peak which is about 1,t both sea level as I’m cycling up the

Hill I can see Brad’s already at the top and I can see the documentary team are there with him and in my head I’m like yes here we go here he is come on come on mate come on mate I got to the top of the hill and I see everyone there I’m

Back with the team I’m back with the boys pins and needles in my arms that’s not good top look at that down here look at that down there boy and then we go again it was so physically demanding but there was no option to quit we’re doing this for RO my dad fought

Through impossible odds to survive two 12-hour operations the idea that he did it in part for me now can I do it for him the weather has absolutely kicked our ass in the past two or three hours uh the downhills aren’t fun um because we’re trying to manage our

Brakes uh the uphills are just as bad um I mean that last downhill I couldn’t see Mike had to shout the directions the darkest point of the whole thing happen in those next two hours me and Brad physically couldn’t see in front of our faces because we are in Pitch Black

You know I I just don’t want to do this anymore and I shouted to Brad I said Brad we have to stop that was a big slash that was horrible oh that was one of the wor that was the worst worst thing by m oh hot I felt alone I felt

Ruined I just I I couldn’t carry on the physical and mental exhaustion that I felt at that time was like nothing I’d ever experienced all I beg to experience again I need that food man can we put the camera down and grab the food in there in

There we’re giving him a hot cup of tea which sugar in we’re giving him pasta I I I’m thinking a lot about going home I had all these negative thoughts going through my mind and then I had this other little thought in my head of Rob doesn’t get the opportunity to

Quit Rob can’t just quit I would say that a day in Rob’s life is harder than that likey and that is what kept me going through the cycle he battled through something that many people don’t survive I don’t think he got lucky I think he fought for every second he

Has what’s this in comparison to what he went through keep Going right now I’ve got 0.85 miles to get to the next checkpoint and that’s all I can think about but we’re not going to be at this checkpoint long cuz we want to go home we cycled for nearly 4 and 1/ half hours with the documentary team behind

Us because our bike lights have died but I was is carrying on because I’m just in Delirium down here you’re in the zone I’m in the I’m in the arthitis Zone I can’t really think right now to be honest with you that’s all right yeah the last stint compared to that stint I mean come on the last stint there was about 5 L’s brutal the hardest thing about this stint was it’s now pitch black lights at

Dead both of them well all of them now that one that one’s still going yeah so we got no lights we’ve got his phone torch on so we about to ring the support crew be like you need to get here now we were in it together and we both

Have that emotional connection when I was led on the floor in texco garage Mike was stood there going right come on let’s go and then when he was in a hole and I’m stood at the top of the hill going go on mik come on we pulled each other

Through I’ve got someone there by my side like Brad I can’t give up because Brad won’t give Up as soon as we sat out on that next bike ride I knew we were getting it done failure is not wired into me and it wasn’t wied into my dad and he came Home Mike saw it first he went there it is and I was like nah that’s not it I I couldn’t really believe it and we can see the top left corner of Ellen Road and I remember just screaming me and Brad just screaming we’re like we’ve actually done it we done [Applause] Itus [Applause] Christ never felt like it in my life all the fames there my wife’s there my daughter seeing Rob there it was it was just Amazing takes 19 and 1 half hours I’ve never done anything for 19 and half hours in my life it was brutal we share that forever £6,000 and what I’m really excited about is how much of a difference that’s going to make to Rob’s life we’re going to take this money as far as we can I hope he’s proud of what I’ve done so oh you’re There what they’ve been through is truly amazing and I know they are passionate people you do it for Love