a bloody long ride…..54 miles from burnley to Leeds along the Leeds to Liverpool canal.

after watching quality videos from @DanCyclesTheWorld(hope you don’t mind me stealing some of your music choices) & @KeepSmilingAdventures & @JethroJessop it inspired me to go on a little mini adventure of my own.

this is the longest ride I have ever done & I’m pleased to of completed it as I got a great sense of accomplishment from it & surprisingly felt pretty good the next day.

I would just like to thank you for watching my vlog. Admittedly I’m no sam pilgrim who is one of the biggest mountain bike channels on YouTube or matt jones who as well is one of the fastest growing mountain bike channels on YouTube. Both of the mountain bike legends love to jump their mountain bikes or take them to such places like whistler Mountain bike park or bike park Wales. Matt jones has even built his own mountain bike park called the playground. Both are inspiring people & mountain bike riders. as are sam Reynolds, ollie Wilkins, ben deakin, Brendon fairclough, Bernard Kerr, josh brycland, gee Atherton & Rachel Atherton, Steve peat, Killion bron the list goes on.

I take my inspiration from the likes of BKXC, the singletrack sampler, berm peak, the loam ranger, Evans MTB saga, BCpov, who from what I have seen like to get out to beautiful places on there mountain bikes and document it on the way.

I can only do this in England at the moment but riding my mountain bike around some of the nicest parts of & Scotland & Wales is a goal that I would like to achieve at some point.

50 miles woohoo and that’s it now in you TR and how’s it going hope you doing well in the lovely town of bur on the lead Liverpool Canal going to do a bit of an endurance ride to there see if I can make it all the way to leads which is

About 58 miles I’ve got a rook sack full of food couple of water bottles full of water and we’ll see what the Day brings 51 miles yeah you can love it or hate it can all riding it gets some miles it legs you know what I mean gets the blood flowing the heart

Beating which is what it’s all about really I mean it’s turned all right look at this yeah I’ve set myself the goal of can do 10 m an hour keep that steady pce I should be done for time just say half half n half 10 half half

One we say half two three yeah get to leads before for and I will be happy watch if I make leads do you know what I mean it’s not count as chickens well this is First Lock I’ve seen it means we’re going up a bit check out this little

Minute love minut I missed my minute seriously what as old as that look how cool it is oh look at that highest point of the leads Liverpool Canal it’s all downhill for me then to be fair a nearly 15 miles in just shy of 1 and 1/ half hours

Which it’s on Pace but I’m going that fast I’m I’m not really filing out do you know what I mean but we’ll see how that goes I’m feeling I’m going give it another 5 miles or half an hour enough somewh else to wait don’t see that right often do you how it Is [Applause] You I did think it was going to be a nice clean ride today look at the state of this let see if it goes back to an so pass soon oh look at this price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it oh looks like that mud’s gone can’t

just coming up to 20 miles I’m feeling all right from honest like two pit stops take on some food and water cuz I don’t want I don’t want another York dearle where I end up starving and just not a great end to a ride really

That was little fun doing it the o to ever be that were good might do that again but this has been good so far but that last say like last how many miles were it 6 miles on that top path that was just mud that was

Energy happing glad it’s um more of a ash felt all it’s slightly mudy but you know I can live with that it’s not energy sapping check this out oh that was nice well deserved coffee and muffin don’t think you can blame me just seeing a sign and it’s four miles to skip [Applause] In He So just a quick sit WP we just come through Skipton uh i’ got to change battery and been made camera uh got some drone Fage uh I think it’s all right it’s one of them things that you just trust the process you know what I mean what you’ve learned um right

Fella you were really liked owning a drone more for photography side then taking it out of my Mountain back a bit of a wuss like that scared of breaking it or getting wet or something you know what I mean I’ll put some um pictures on now I pick a brilliant pictures

If you know some expert photographer might think otherwise but I like some of them have even made it on to miss screen server TV so that’s how good I think they are so all right so I’ve just passed the sign say big five R locks about 12 miles

Away so uh I’ll give you an update then I’ll change this camera by then as well so catch in a bit just passed the marker saying it’s 25 miles to leads I’m doing all right 2 hours 10 minutes 28 miles we’re 29 I’ll take that at John’s drum Ellen’s

Drum Mary’s drum most like drums a home drum nice one oh here we go we P 105 leads 22 ooh yeah earlier on I olding 10 m per hour now it’s about 8 and n so I’m doing all right thank you Famous Five Locks Oh Girl let’s see what this mile Mark says 112 to Liverpool 15 and a qu to leads let’s do it I was thinking a bail in to be honest with I’ve Just Seen A train but uh I can do 50 more miles easy yeah weather’s taking a turn for worse

But I was expecting it I was hoping to have uh finished by now but but my estimation this morning that was way off I was Doling and stopping away and then them two mud patches man sucked all the energy out of me especially that second one I was thinking of quitting I’m glad

I didn’t I’ll see you when we get in the lads but it shouldn’t be long heyy oh look 6 and 1/2 miles rout 66 that’s now I’ve done 48 here we go 9 6 97 98 99 50 miles wooo the Fest St ever cycle I tell you what the B is feeling

It can’t be that far now I’ve not seen a marker in a while well there it is leads that’s my first proper sight of it not long now and that’s it that’s see it does go on it goes into that [Applause] River that’s it for me that’s the scars 54.54% I did have visions uh flying the Drone around but weather’s put compared to that so you’ve made it this far thanks for watching I’ll catch you next time