AND THIS IS WHY WE RIDE!!! Brighton, Ditchling and Brightons best burger 😋 #roadcycling #episode114

Join me and Mike as we head to Brighton on an absolute beaut of a day. I take a well travelled route, mainly by me and my pals, have a few pit stops (too many) and tackle Ditchling Beacon at around midday with the sun blazing. We end in Brighton, on the beach with THE best burger I’ve had in years with one of my best pals…….amazing ride….enjoy 🤘

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got the legs
maybe well we’ll see reserve judgment for later
so there’s nothing nothing but glamour with us we’ve stopped off at cottage services mike’s sitting on my wheel so he can get as much rest as possible
100%
before the uh the car you feeling confident
no
no me neither let’s
see if um Mine has helped this man what do you think show you again freshburg is in the country right country it’s definitely bright good morning guys hello everyone so today I’m riding with Mike we’re doing our annual Brighton ride it’s a route that I use every time and it just avoids a lot of a lot of rubbish loads of single country lanes and beautiful landscape all around and not many cars most importantly not many cars so looking forward to it looking forward to ditching so joined by Mike today he was filming so he’s he’s a little bit back i’ll introduce you in a minute you guys know him and he’s recently come back from Morine so I’m expecting big things although he is a bit tired i’m not surprised cuz there was a lot of Kyling so I’ll introduce you guys in a minute if you’re new to the channel please like comment and subscribe if you’re an existing viewer please like comment share and join us as we head to Brighton will we get a stick of rock who knows i haven’t seen one for ages years right in the wood [Music] [Music] [Music] i do hey again [Music] i’m here with marvelous Mike hello Mike hi brighton today how you feeling
yeah good today
got the legs
maybe well we’ll see reserve judgment for later
so Mike like I said Mike’s done morine recently so we’re going to have a little chat to him about that and whether it’s worth going i think you probably need to enjoy climbing expecting him to smash me on the hills so we’ll we’ll see what happens right um yeah looking forward to this one we’ll catch up with Mike shortly and yeah just enjoy the beautiful landscape you ready
yeah ready
i’m going to sit on his will now here we go [Music] i surrender to you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so there’s nothing nothing but glamour with us we’ve stopped off at Pottage Surfaces uh just outside of Crawley just for a little bit of just for an espresso a quick wee and a bite to eat it’s nothing but glabber so now we’re back on the road and heading to Brighton we’re making really good time so that’s why we thought we’d kind of stop as we get towards Brighton and the dreaded ditchling beacon probably have a little pit stop before it’s a big old climb not long to go yeah halfway there so we’ll be there fairly shortly and you can take in all the beautiful beautiful landscape and roads before we get there i better get going cuz Mike’s right on my wheel now so see you very shortly we’re driving [Music] tonight we want to go we want to go honestly there’s something just a really special about the ride to Bright and the sun coming out and summer something really pleasurable about it it’s just such a nice route and a lot of these roads just don’t have cars on you’ll get the odd car but just makes it so special honestly such a lovely ride i’m really really enjoying it today and this is what it’s all about guys is it you know getting out on the bike enjoying what’s around you you know a little bit of putting your foot down as well i like to take it all in take everything around me in just absorb it and enjoy it and be present you know it’s good it’s good i’m going to stop waffling i just thought I’ve got to talk to you guys about this cuz just feel good on the bike and every everything’s good so I hope hope I don’t have to eat my words in a minute but at the moment it’s good yeah I think if I if I was doing this like regularly as well you might you might get bored of it but I think because I hardly you know I do it maybe twice a year it just you get the weather right and the time of day right i just think it’s it’s so so lovely right see you very shortly [Music] [Music] shake down [Music] show me inside and you can rock and roll with an attitude so good fresh [Music] so good so fresh keep it on repeat everywhere you go you bring a roof down everybody knows you got your own good just the way you like it just the way you like it so good like it so we just uh stopped off at Proper Coffee in Hassuk it’s just before you hit Ditch Beacon i filmed it before it’s a great pit stop they got a little bike set up there bike mechanic spacings for your bikes out the back lovely lady that runs it owns it highly highly recommend there’s a little bit more on it actually in my other video but I don’t want to do repetition so if you want to check it out a bit more go on to my other uh my other vid yes we’re about to do it mike’s sitting on my wheel so he can get as much rest as possible
100%
before the uh the car you feeling confident
no
no me neither i would say see you at the top but I’ve got a feeling you’re going to beat me so
I think so
right guys we will chat to you at the top when we stop briefly to take in the beautiful surroundings wish us luck guys cuz let’s be honest we’re going to need it right it’s starting in a bit don’t know if you can hear Mike’s chain but it’s giving us a little uh I’m working on my dance moves there’s a little beat to it it’s like This is so annoying this bit cuz this looks like the end but you’re only halfway through so you got to be really careful if you’ve done it before you could look at that and think “Oh wow i’m nearly there but you’re not right jumping off catching my breath here we go [Music] [Music] [Music] ah crap that’s it top of ditch that was hard let’s see if um Moren has helped this man what do you think um yeah that was difficult there’s a couple of false endings where as I said on the video you come up by this hill to to your right and you think you’re near the end and I don’t tend to look at the gradient map i tried to switch that off so then you’re going on your instincts a little bit so but yeah all in all tough but beautiful as well look at this look show you it once again loads of off-roaders here as well you done a little trail here off road
i haven’t no looks good though
it does look good yeah right so we’ve got a couple of you say two two miles of like flats now and then down
rolling isn’t it yeah
yeah yeah so we can kind of hammer it along here get our breath back hammer it along here and then down into Brighton and burgers breaths back we’re ready to go ready to roll but yeah if you’ve not done it have a little go cuz it’s fun it’s doable isn’t it it’s doable for most for most so right guys see you shortly i will soul myself don’t forget [Music] [Music] So we’ve stopped off uh at Burger Brothers meant to be the best burgers in Brighton best burgers in the country right
in the country well
definitely Brighton
that’s what it said on their um Did they
on their window yeah
nice best burgers in the UK sweet
in the UK actually
yeah so we’ve got burgers drinks how’d you feel
actually
you up for riding back or you I know he likes a short one so
not short one but that’s that’s still 90k off you was it 100k for you surprisingly quite comfortable on these uh airports actually so have a look guys i don’t know
is completely gone i think they were going to actually repair that at one point the seagulls after Mike’s burger
this is your one
oh cheers mate that burger was We had to We had to fight the seagulls for it cuz they were definitely hovering about they definitely wanted a bit of that burger but that was probably the best burger I’ve had in a long long time so shout out what are they called again sorry to Burger Brothers
shout out to Burger Brothers in Brighton if you come here go it’s right near the seafront really really friendly they gave us a little bag and double skewered it so the burger didn’t move anywhere but so so nice the weather’s perfect this is This is the dream ride isn’t that today dream ride so I was just going to chat to Mike as well about Morine there was one sub that commented and told you told you to go to a
Oh yeah a restaurant
i went We went and it was good yeah
how was Mine
yeah lovely it was better better than I thought it would be i was really worried cuz I don’t like hills but actually cuz you’re already in the mountains it’s not like you’re going all the way up and all the way down and all the way up you’re sort of in and in and around it it’s so beautiful still to ride around and then you look across and you can see like the Mont Blanc massif in the background so good
what were the um obviously the climbing is always going to be tough and there was a lot of How much like meish did you cover
i did maybe 7 and a half thousand in in a week wow
but the people that did all the big rides I think they covered n and a half maybe 10 10,000 meters of climbing
and that’s five or six rides basically isn’t it
yeah yeah and what were the what were the descents like were they like
descents were amazing so because it was organized by someone that lives out there it was really nice because we would go like ride the downhills where the roads were a bit more open the quality of the tarmac is better and then we’d climb the quieter back roads knew where to take us where we’d like avoid the traffic when we need to or you know we’d be going as fast if not faster than the traffic on the smooth bits it was really nice should we give him a little shout out who is that
oh definitely so Sam from Slipstream Adventures absolutely amazing job like got to know everyone that was there learned everyone’s names rode with everyone took care of 17 of us all different abilities made sure everyone had what they needed plotted all the routes got in touch with the cafes before we got there so they weren’t you know [ __ ] themselves when 17 people turn up and ask for 17 crepes with 17 drinks and everything else
yeah really good really good guy and can you could people just contact him to organize the tour
yeah he’s on Instagram got website organizes trips so you can either go on an organized trip if you don’t have people to go with
Yeah
or you that he will organize a trip for you and your mates
brilliant that sounds that that actually sounds amazing so having done it would you would you do it again or would you or you done now and you kind of move on to the next one uh yeah I I think there’s so many places I want to go
i wouldn’t go back that’s not cuz I didn’t enjoy it it was really nice but try Yeah different mountains different countries just got to film this se cuz he’s trying to clock around
yeah exactly yeah he’s a he’s a unit as well um Okay yeah cool so cuz we we’re possibly considering Doommites aren’t we at some point
yeah Damite
i’m going to have to jump into the into Mike’s uh cycling club to to get on that but I do fancy that i love a bit of climbing i do like I do moan at the time but I like a bit of climbing right so we’re done now we’re going to head to the train station beat the school kids
yeah train home beat the school kids beat the rush guys thank you for watching today it’s been a lovely lovely ride please like comment and subscribe and we’ll see you and Mike on the next one