Mortirilo and the Passo di Gavia
The first day’s ride and the lads are hoping to be eased in. Of course the Captain has other ideas with two big passes lined up.
We start at 9;30 and I head for the first rendezvous at Mazzo.
It’s … Read more
Boro – Metz – Bormio
The journey down was eventful as usual and after an early start Ade and I were soon at the Channel Tunnel. Straight through on an earlier train…or so we thought…
We’d bought our usual ticket and were right through to … Read more
Le Grande Depart
As everyone knows the Tour de France is coming to Yorkshire in July and to mark that the lads wanted to ride the first leg themselves or as much of it as possible.
We began our route in Skipton heading … Read more
Bealach Na Ba
The lads have been in training hard for this year’s trip to Bormio, Italy next month.
Coxy and Steve K spent the bank holiday weekend in Scotland.
The Bealach Na Ba is reckoned to be the hardest climb in the … Read more
Coastbusters on Facebook
We’re now on Facebook. Trendy are we…
I thought I’d start a FB page so we can keep even more people updated on our adventures.
We’ll still have the Blog of course and new site pages for the trips we … Read more
Cap de Formentor
A leisurely ride around the bay to Cap de Formentor today or so we thought…
Coming out of Pollenca it’s flat and dull but then the lads hit a big climb in the oppressive heat as we again hit switch-backs.… Read more
Sa Colobra
We manage an earlier start today and the lads are retreading yesterday’s route up to the top of the Coll de Femenia only this time we are pushing on down to Sa Colobra itself.
It’s another hot sunny day and … Read more
A bit of a late start
Ho hum. That was quite a night. Inevitably we found the Irish bar and there was this guy singing and playing more guitar type instruments than I’ve ever seen. His Hendrix was perfect and this thing he did playing the … Read more
