Category: Nuts on Bents

Armed with his boyish charm and bare faced cheek (ahem), Nic managed to infiltrate the Radio 2 studios and get a photo with Sir Terry Wogan. We even got a mention on Terry’s radio show “Wake up with Wogan”. Terry is the spokesman for BBC Children in Need and one […]

Should we be worried? Or even petrified? It’s finally July and our last month… are we prepared enough mentally and physically. Probably not! Despite the fact that we off soon, we’ve been busy buzzing around with doing our Video Nation filming, receiving even more jabs, getting our gear ready and […]

James May of BBC Top Gear fame mentions us in his article in the Motoring Section, Telegraph online. Though we think his comments warrant a challenge typical of Top Gear. So we’ve proposed cycling diagonally across the Top Gear Track while James May completes a whole circuit driving backwards. We’ll […]

Today we met Michael Palin at the signing of his new book, Himalaya. We had already exchanged emails with his staff regarding patronage – Michael didn’t disappoint and posed with us and Pudsey bear, in support of our endeavour. Thank you Michael – Nic aspires to be you when he’s […]

We have been selected by BBC Video Nation, a popular BBC program broadcasting video-diaries on the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain, to do a series of clips during the 6 weeks building up to our departure. Today they have given us a tiny video camera (and a monster […]

Having done 200 miles+ each on the bikes, at last we felt comfortable enough to convert to SPD shoes and clipless pedals…..and what a joy it was! We cycled down from Ealing to Horsham today with Katie (a friend and keen road cyclist, and one of our regular training partners) […]