Back in the day when sax player/instrument repairer Andy Lee and myself weren't selling saxophones, flutes, clarinets, violins and banjos - yes banjos - at Newcastle's premier music store we'd spend our Sundays cycling up and down the hills and dales of Durham and Northumberland - somehow there always seemed to be more hills that went up than went down. To our credit we always managed to conquer the terrain without dismounting (unless there was a pub half way up).
Of course there were compensations for this self-inflicted punishment as this photo that appeared in the October 1986 edition of the Bicycle Times shows. It was taken outside of the Robin Hood Inn, East Wallhouses, on the Military Road - I'm at the left of the picture - during a 100km charity ride for the British Heart Foundation that went from Gateshead Stadium to Haydon Bridge and back again taking in both sides of the river. Happy days... Lance
PS: My diary reveals the girls were Diane and Janet - two radiographers from a local hospital.
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