Chris Armishaw
TransAm... a long way from Paris
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I’m Free OXFORDSHIRE & THE CHILTERNS
SUMMER 2015 ISSUE 02
www.pedalyourcycle.com
Your Guide to
A Summer of
Cycling
Oxfordshire & The Chilterns
Meet Titanium Bespoke Bike Builder
Interview With
Maxine Filby
We chat about training and competing around Europe.
Richard Baldwin
Coast to Coast Memorial Ride Part 2
Aston Hill
THE BLACK RUN
Downhill Race Action
Pedal Your Cycle P.8
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The Free cyclists’ paper for oxfordshire & the chilterns
7th June
13th June
19th June
21st June
18th July
Tour de Vale
Bike Week Oxford
BMCC Silverstone 9-up Team Time Trial
Wallingford Festival of Cycling
Pedal For Pace
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The annual Mix96 Tour de Vale Bike 2015 cycle Ride.
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A week from Sunday June 13th, Oxford will see a series of organised free rides and events.
Summer Sportive. Helping children with disabilities.
estival Mountain Bike F 20th June Page. 4
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CALIFORNIA PART ONE Power To Your Pedal
H
ow did that happen? Not with much planning or packing time that’s for sure, four days to be precise, but it all came together beautifully - proof that adventures are best spontaneous.
We had had the idea for a couple of months after seeing a programme where a group cycled the Golden Gate Bridge and thought ‘we will do that some day’. I got the book ‘Bicycling the Pacific Coast’ and put it in a drawer, then came
the end of October and we had a window when we could go. I booked two return flights to San Francisco and off we went on 4th November, armed with our world on our backs and an address for a cycle hire shop on pier 49, SF.
Oh, and the book - all we needed right? Route 101 is perhaps the most historic highway in the US, built in 1926, taking travellers from the Mexican border through the Central Coast of California all the
way to the Canadian border, over 2000 miles in total. We were ready to take it on, well, part of it, from San Francisco to the border at Tijuana, and there is a... Continued on page 10