Humber Bridge – BalancingOnTwoWheels

BalancingOnTwoWheels

Balmy January road

Petrolhead Angel

January 26, 2018 balancingontwowheels 200km, Bridge Rolls, Brough, Darlington, Hull, Humber, Humber Bridge, Keadby Bridge, Northallerton, River Tees, Topcliffe

The blowout on my rear tyre was fairly loud, the inner tube was shredded and the tyre wall was split[…]

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York Vale

Randonneuring Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

October 12, 2017 balancingontwowheels 200km, Audax, Brigg, Gunness Bridge, Howden, Humber, Humber Bridge, Humber Bridge 200, Keadby Bridge, River Ancholme, River Ouse, River Trent, South Ferriby, Thixendale, Welton

Audaxing is the sort of holiday that involves visiting petrol stations and eating Ginsters sandwiches. It doesn’t have to be,[…]

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Hi Res St Helens Audax

Sacrifice and Hope

September 23, 2017 balancingontwowheels 100km, 200km, Audax, Gunness Bridge, Howden, Hull, Humber, Humber Bridge, Humber Bridge 100, Humber Bridge 200, Keadby Bridge, Kingston-upon-Hull, Quarmbys, River Ouse, River Trent, St Helens Welton with Melton, The Stone Trough Inn, Thixendale, VC167, Welton

“Are you running a zoo?” I’m stood at the checkout of Aldi with two hundred bananas – but surely the[…]

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14 percent

Leave the hills to last

August 14, 2017 balancingontwowheels 200km, Audax, Brough, Howden, Humber, Humber Bridge, Humber Bridge 100, Humber Bridge 200, Keadby Bridge, Quarmbys, River Ouse, River Trent, South Ferriby, St Helens Welton with Melton, The Stone Trough Inn, Thixendale, VC167, Welton

It was all Ruth’s fault of course; this long distance cycling thing. Ruth likes to think of herself as an[…]

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Remembering London Edinburgh London

August 8, 2017 balancingontwowheels 1400km, Audax, Barnard Castle, Brough, Broughton, Caistor, Coxwold, Edinburgh, Humber, Humber Bridge, LEL, London Edinburgh London, Market Weighton, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, Thirsk, VC167, Welton, yacf, Yad Moss

I woke with a jolt thinking I’d overslept; what control am I at? How far to London? It took a[…]

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Viking bicycle

The Viking Way

June 5, 2017 balancingontwowheels CTC, Humber, Humber Bridge, Humber Bridge 100, Humber Bridge 200, Pootle, South Ferriby, Viking Way

The Viking Way is a long distance (147 mile) route from the Humber, south to Rutland Water. I was interested in[…]

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Wolds and Waters

Wolds and Waters 200 (aka Humber Bridge 200)

May 30, 2017 balancingontwowheels 200km, Audax, Boothferry Bridge, Brough, Gunness Bridge, Humber, Humber Bridge, Humber Bridge 200, Keadby Bridge, Pipe and Glass, Quarmbys, River Ouse, River Trent, The Stone Trough Inn, Thixendale, Welton

This has been one of the easiest 200km bike rides I’ve done: I was route-checking the Humber Bridge 200 (HB200) event[…]

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