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Richie Davies
John Young is on his way from John O’Groats to Lands’ End riding George Pooley’s home built version of a 4 cylinder “Quadrent”. Good luck John, best wishes for success, you will need it on a long single day ride with no fairing and small fuel tank. Upside is plenty of stops for coffee and toilet. 😂 If you want to follow John’s trip this is his Spotwalla tracker
https://new.spotwalla.com/trip/a08b-19f366af-876d/view
If anyone wants to catch up with him at any stage the route he is taking is the well established JOG-LE route : JOG – A9 – M9 – M80 – M73 – M74 – M6 – M5 – A30 – LE
He will be stopping for fuel at the following locations :
Victoria Garage, Brora KW9 6LN
Esso, Harbour Rd Roundabout, Inverness IV1 1TB
BP, Perth Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5LY
Shell, M74, South, Bothwell G71 8BG
BP, A74 M Northbound, Gretna DG16 5HQ
BP, J32/33 M6 J32/33, Lancaster LA2 9DU
Roadchef M6 Sandbach South CW11 2FZ
Roadchef Strensham M5 South, Worcester WR8 0BZ
Shell, Motorway, M5 South, Axbridge BS26 2UF
BP, Exeter Rd, Okehampton EX20 1QJ
Shell, Carwin Rise, Hayle TR27 5DG
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Richie Davies
Just passing Glasgow
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Richie Davies
Just picked this up from John, sounds like a tough ride.
“308 miles done, 530 to go.
BUT ….
This is tough, 80 miles of hard rain and now some really nasty winds
We just keep pressing on but it’s taking so mych energy to keep the bike upright in the crosswinds 😞”
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John Nelson
According to the spot track they stopped for about 80 minutes just north of Bromsgrove then went back to John’s home.
Hope the experience wasn’t too hard on bike or rider.
Not the best time to take that run on, wet and windy weather and nowhere enough hours of daylight for the run even if everything else was in their favour.
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Richie Davies
Last report from John, they were up against it.
“Sorry guys – but it’s beaten us.I’ll post a full report later but another 30 miles of heavy filtering around the M54/M6/M5 area sapped what energy I had left and that was before I saw we were due to hit another bout of heavy rain just as we would be joining the A30 around 11.00pm.
Really sorry that I’ve let you down on this. The problem was all me – the Quadrent performed impeccably all day for the entire 600 miles that we’ve covered.
But as I said, “we’ll be back” …. 🙂”
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Anonymous
A brave and valiant attempt. I hope the weather is kinder to you next time. Gave the Quadrent a good test if nothing else.
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Richie Davies
Well, John has set off this morning to complete the run. He wanted to prove that the bike is capable. He is just heading towards Exeter so well on his way.
follow him here:
https://new.spotwalla.com/trip/a08b-19f366af-876d/view?fbclid=IwAR0q1Lutn-zQ5NW-IyhSfFCbr3qYEXW1adRu837tlbFc7Kb_kkr5WwFp6wc -
Richie Davies
Looks like he has made it!, well done John.
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John Young
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Ian Weslake-Hill
Very well done, John!
Bike looks ready to ride back up to JoG. I’m guessing YOU’RE not…
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