2 - Boat and Railway - 10.2 Miles

As the Eagle and Sun was a repeat journey of the practice one, we hit up our second target immediately afterwards. Carrying on down the canal towpath brought us to the Boat and Railway!

Highlights included

-The fact we were actually supposed to go to a pub called The Bowling Green which Steve said was right by the canal and we'd see it. It wasn't so we couldn't
-I nearly fell in the Canal on the way back dodging some mud
-A dog chased us
-We ate flies

For this journey we had a camera mounted to the front of Steves bike! Pretty awesome idea we thought. Of course as the journeys will be fairly long we'll speed it up to whizz through the whole journey in a minute or so! Slowing back down for the interesting bits. Unfortunately the shaking of the bike made it almost impossible to watch and the SD card filled before we got to the pub. So consider that a work in progress. The camera will be back on a proper mount and a bigger SD card! As compensation, here are the 'highlights' from the footage. If you're after some video action thats remotely watchable, I'd skip to the other video at the end of this post, but if not then enjoy some of the worst documentary making skills ever and especially enjoy the 1:45 mark of the video which is a sort of preview as to what the footage might look like if Steve suddenly dies while we're biking home. Then it repeats for reasons I don't understand.

Sorry about that. Here are the photos to officially log the Boat and Railway as hit number 2!

Well done us on Hit number 2! Here's our official bit to the camera 

1 - Eagle and Sun - 5 Miles

Well we said we'd go back and log the Eagle and Sun properly which is exactly what we did! Photographic evidence below as defined in the mission statement. Steve, Andy, Beer, Bikes and Pub Sign.

That's hit number one down!

Map

This map will contain all of our progress - red dots are potential pubs, green are for the ones we've already visited. Click a dot to see our photo!


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Test Drive - Eagle and Sun

Our first excursion on Tuesday 07/05/13

In celebration of me getting a bike today, we motored 2.5 miles down the canal from Droitwich to a pub called the 'Eagle and Sun'. Problem is no official rules were decided at the time, we don't have the photo's required to register this as a 'Hit' so consider it a test-run. Here's Steve enjoying a pint outside.

Looks like we'll have to go back and log this one properly! What a shame.

Mission Statement and Challenge Rules - Bike. Beer. Blog

Welcome to the latest project of myself (Andy) and my cohort (Steve). I can explain the purpose of this project with just two simple questions.

1) What's the best thing you can do with your buddy?
2) What's the best way to get to a location you can do that thing?

The answers are obvious.

1) Go to the pub
2) Bikes!

Now this is all well and good, but how do you take that to next level? How do you turn a fun activity into a project? How do you get a sense of achievement from it? How do you make it better?

Well that's why this blog exists along with the project 'Andy and Steves Bike and Beer Adventure'.

Myself and Steve will strive to bike to as many different pubs as possible, mark our excursions on an amazing map which has yet to be named and generally try to visit as many unique places as possible!

So why would you want to read this blog?

Well you might not. It might be boring. Maybe you've nothing better to do. Maybe you want to saddle up and join us on a quest as a guest-biker. Maybe you just want to learn (prepare to be disappointed)

How is a pub logged as 'complete'?

Photographic evidence of course! To log a pub, the photo's must include Andy, Steve, Bikes, Pint, Pub Sign. These can be in any combination, but all 4 must be covered.

Any other rules?

Yes actually! 3 criteria which much be met
1) The pub has to be at least 2 miles away from our houses
2) Only 1 pub per town. Multiple pubs in the same town would only count as one HIT
3) The pub must have a beer garden!

"But Steve and Andy, this all just sounds like an excuse for you to go whizzing off on your bikes and get drunk."

And to that I say "What? Don't judge us, this is important scientific experiment, bugger off, what have you ever done? Nothing, that's what. I'm getting on my bike.