The Bike riders safely arriving at Edge Village Green on 3rd July at 5pm (on schedule!)

Welcome

Our great adventure is over and we did it. We left Barcelona on Sunday 20th June and arrived back home to Edge 14-days later on Saturday the 3rd. We had had a rather auspicious start to our ride, in Barcelona a tyre was slashed on the backup van as we waited at traffic lights and whilst changing the wheel we had two bags stolen from the cab (a setup that happens several times a day in Barcelona so be warned if you’re driving there in a vehicle with UK number plates); prior to that Malcolm had a bag containing his passport stolen in Alicante whilst enroute for Barcelona. Once the cycling began we were faced with gale force winds, temperatures of 100f, melting tar on the roads, the Pyrenees Mountains and of course fourteen days of sitting on the bikes. But these challenges made the ride more special and any tough times we had along the way were more than compensated for by the sheer beauty of cycling through rural France. The fact that we were cycling for a very good cause, the Williams Syndrome Foundation, spurred us on when the legs were tired. We arrived home to a fantastic welcome at Edge Fete and I’m sure there was a tear in the eye of some of the team as hundreds of people cheered our safe return.


On behalf of all of the cyclists, a very big thank you to the backup team, you were simply fantastic and we couldn’t have done it without you. To everyone who supported us, wished us well, sponsored us, logged into the website to follow our progress or were there to see us arrive home at Edge Fete, thank you. Finally a special thank you to Chris for opening the Edgemore Inn especially for us so that we could enjoy a drink before cycling to the Fete and to the Fete orgnanisers and the village of Edge for arranging such a wonderful welcome for us.

Check out our diary page for more information of our route



The team