We started our day in Kendal, having had a huge fry up, cereals, fruit and even a few jam sandwiches packed away for later! We embarked on our 125 mile journey just before 9 along the A6, a very busy road through Lancaster and down to Preston. The hills provided a lot of entertainment and a welcome break to the constant drone of traffic going past us.
A number of traffic lights later and we were on our way to Wigan. By this stage we were doing well to stick on each others back wheels to maintain speed, but unfortunately as Olie eased on his breaks at a set of lights, Rich clipped Olie's rear wheel and promptly flew over his handle bars! Luckily he managed to tuck his shoulder down and roll straight over, getting up quickly to check if everyone was ok. Luckily it was just him who had fallen off! Best of all, Pete was on his way to meet us and managed to see the whole lot from the other side of the road!
A quick fix to the gears and we were back on our way again. We continued on the A6 to Warrington, crossed the river Mersey and turned onto the A49. We followed this all the way to Whitchurch where we met up with Pete again who had bought lunch ready for us. Back on the A49 we powered out the last 40 or so miles, Pete in tow, to Shrewsbury where we stopped in a travelodge for the evening.
All in all a fairly un-eventful / un-interesting day covering our distance on 2 roads! We cleaned our chains, stashed our bikes in the Travelodge office where we managed to spread oil all over the floor and headed off our usual 2 meals each.
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