Bike packing the Perimeter of Britain fundraising for Movember – Day 13

Good morning and welcome to day 13 of bike packing mostly the perimeter of Britain fundraising for Movember. Yesterday, as I’m sure you saw, was a day where I just felt very intimidated and unsafe. So, after about 50k of riding on some of the most dangerous roads I’ve ever ridded, we ended up getting in the car cuz luckily I’ve got Jack around for a few days at the moment. And then today’s plan has had some modifications. So the plan is to basically ride up the Karan climb. Hopefully it’s early enough that it’s not too busy. um descend that ride down the west coast of Sky a bit until getting back on that horrible busy main road where I will jump back in the car for a safety aspect and then aiming to get a ferry across to Scotland again. So the tweaked plan for day 13 was basically to ride the Karan climb in the middle of the aisle of sky and then ride down the west side until it rejoins back onto the big nasty road. At that point I was going to get in the car. We were going to drive a section of it and then basically ride to the ferryport in Armadale to get back to Scotland. Now basically we found out during this trip that the ferry had no room for cars. So that was the first problem that happened. So we then detourred to get back around to mainland Scotland over the bridge in the aisle of sky just to shout out to Birch Coffee for making exceptionally good coffee and fantastic cookies. And anyway, we ended up back on the road and I was aiming to do about 100 or 150k towards Fort William. Unfortunately, that didn’t work. I snapped a spoke on the road in the middle of nowhere near Gleno. I think it was not ideal. So, I’m kind of in the middle of nowhere and I’ve broken a spoke. So, don’t know how road surface here is great. Just went pop. Um, so I’m trying to get to Fort William. So, that’s the hope is that there might be a bike shop there that can help. It’s been incredibly lucky to have Jack for the last few days. So luckily I wasn’t left stranded at the side of the road. We got the car and headed towards Fort William to Nevice Cycles and the guys there managed to sort out a solution that would kind of work for the time being with a new spoke. We then had some pizza and we met a very lovely dog and hopefully tomorrow is going to be a better day. [Music]