Colleagues at Canal & River Trust decided to cycle the longest canal in UK (137 miles of the Grand Union Canal) for charity as part of #canalathon2024
This is Day 2 of a 3 day ride.
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good morning from the quarters we’ve had a good night rest and we are going to go off and do the rest of the Grand Union we had to cut these short slightly yesterday but we are going back to the point and then we’ll continue on from there Little Miss out the bike and the fading light caused us to divert and try and find the hotel we managed F of quarters we’ve had some rest we’ve had food thank you to will who saved the day amazing gentleman who’s come out his way to help us but yeah all good ready to go where are we Tony so we’re at the top of uh St bruan uh Canal Museum and uh it’s got a really nice feature here to me a glass cabinets unfortunately it’s not working at the moment but the hope you to get it fixed but it’s a working or it’s a not a working model but it’s supposed to be a working model of how the Foxton lock incline plane used to work now if anyone goes there to Fox locks at the moment now nowadays they will see this plane here so you’ll see the tracks coming down so when they go there they will see the tracks but they won’t uh they won’t see the things at the top but uh it’s all grass just with tracks in there so there’s very little evidence of what was what it was used for but this was the only incline plane like lift that went up and down and took narrow bolts uh up to the top and bottom of the locks so they didn’t need to use the little locks that were in up and down here uh so were they the earlier time those locks and then this hi hi Linda tell us where we are we’re in STO Brew Museum and we found this fabulous map and it explains about how we’re getting from Birmingham down to London We’re Going On the Canal but it’s changed its name over time so originally to go from Birmingham down to London you went to from the war and Birmingham Canal the war and napton Canal onto the Grand Junction canal and then all the way down and then the last bit was the main line into London at brenford and then in 199 1929 the Grand Union was formed where it brought all those together and that’s what we’re cyling over the next 3 days and how long is that 13 37 M just 137 just 137 shall we do it twice brilliant thank you it’s the end of a brilliant ride here through this is bronston tunnel great way to see the tunnel by boat by boat right back to the cycle ring get the helmet ready to be fair thank you very much CH thank you the only the only to be fair the only way to see the tunnel is by cuz anything else would be really wet thank you that was brilliant amazing well done so back on our bike today we’ve actually gone through the tunnel thanks to kind couple on their lovely boat here the lock and key thank you again there they go beautiful boat beautiful couple helped us through amazing isn’t that the dream that’s Dick’s retirement plan there right there I would I would take this place and I would name it gong’s Paradise absolutely wow what a spot it’s never too early for ice cream right no this the cafe this is a cafe okay brilliant let’s have a breakfast so what happened this morning when we got to a tunnel oh yeah last tunnel yeah it was really easy for us in the sense thaty on water we we we got a boat boat some nice very nice people gave us a little to of their boat we are now at another tunnel what are we going to do um we we could wait here all day and see if a boat will let us pass through it’s 2.8 me well 2 2.8 km long um I think we should uh cycle over what do you think yeah I haven’t seen a boat for a while I think we’re going to have to actually cycle sorry guys we cannot go through the tunnel so we have to go over and Beyond nor under over over what he said [Music] back on the canal after a slight detour with the blizzor tunnel nice we’re at Brewing stop here and admire for a second this this what this made of recycled tires that is recycled tires right there DLS what so this is recycled tires cuz you can see how squishy that is yeah it is soft um and this was the first hch patch of this we put in well second actually first one was on the ground Union further down but we put in a test patch of this um to try it here and it’s great it’s a great surface good for Cy cheap great for cycling great for this this do run this I can see two bikes there but then it has two bikes there but they’re not they are is tot ther yeah yeah there still there then that’s our Canal Museum Str we on let’s go in and see where they are welcome to Canal and River trust do breu this is our little video of our lovely site colleagues are here 1963 know don’t [Music] Action Shot keep going action shots Action Shot Tony now coming through here I see the first runner coming there yeah yeah they going on the top path okay but they don’t come over the bridge H too much health and safety running over this bridge I have to stop wow it’s pretty cool though love it yeah amazing oh this amazing you want to join the Run sorry you want to join the run if we do the run the cyut and the swim triathlon little video there dick nice that yeah okay Doug dog dog dog end of day two and Tony’s taking us home Bo got the hotel around here this corner somewhere it’s been another fantastic day of cycling we’ve learned so much from dick the man is amazing helped us through the puncher repairs we’re very challenging day but we’re here we made it and we’re at the hotel there P Tre left left air tree water side nice spot right here on our canal end of an eventful day great another 38 miles of cycling come to my hotel and this WOW 87 point something miles of cycling on the canals done and I still can’t get away from them they’re here on my hotel side right what a beautiful view to get a showered up and get out and enjoy M Milton King okay