John O Groats to Lands End on a Honda PC50
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Evening all
Some of you might have seen the photo I posted in the photo thread a few months ago of my Honda PC50 that we was planning on doing the 1000 mile trip from John O Groats to Lands End well we are actually going to be doing it now and the dream (could end up being a nightmare) is going to become a reality and we have set a date, we have also decided that rather that just do it for a laugh we will do it for a charity that is quite close to my heart.
On the 28th July Myself, My Dad, My Grandad and Chris Long will be making the 1000 mile trip over 7 days from John O Groat's to Land's End on 50cc peddle and pop mopeds (Honda PC50's)
To complete the 1000 miles we will need to do approcimately 250 miles per day at 30mph, this equals to a approximately 9 hours riding per day, this doesnt include food stops, refuelling or any breakdowns that we will most probably encounter. Over the 7 days we will be camping in little one man tents anywhere we can.
The bikes we will be riding are 1975 Honda PC50 peddle and pops, they are started by peddiling like you do on a push bike hence the name "peddle and pop" they do a top speed of 30mph on the flat if you're lucky, up hill they are pretty useless so a lot of peddling will be done, especially in Scotland. Each ped will be modified to carry tents, clothes and anything else that we will need for the 7 days.
The charity that I have chosen is "baby unit fund" it is a charity close to my heart because my younges son Henry was rushed into Hull Royal Infirmary at 19 days old after he stopped breathing in the night and required 7 days intensive treatment to make a full recovery and was able to return home.
The excellent care and treatment Henry received from the staff and equipment they have available to the children saved his life, for this we will be forever grateful to this hospital.
We would like to raise any amount of money to go towards any new equipment that the hospital needs to continue the excellent job they are doing saving babies lives.
I will also keep this thread up to date with any planning we have, one of the peds is currently in a million bits so we can restore it to a better condition that it was in, if any of you are interested I could try and do a build update on it too?
Moderator edit: we don't allow charity donation requests, but please feel free to keep us up to date on your exploits.
Some of you might have seen the photo I posted in the photo thread a few months ago of my Honda PC50 that we was planning on doing the 1000 mile trip from John O Groats to Lands End well we are actually going to be doing it now and the dream (could end up being a nightmare) is going to become a reality and we have set a date, we have also decided that rather that just do it for a laugh we will do it for a charity that is quite close to my heart.
On the 28th July Myself, My Dad, My Grandad and Chris Long will be making the 1000 mile trip over 7 days from John O Groat's to Land's End on 50cc peddle and pop mopeds (Honda PC50's)
To complete the 1000 miles we will need to do approcimately 250 miles per day at 30mph, this equals to a approximately 9 hours riding per day, this doesnt include food stops, refuelling or any breakdowns that we will most probably encounter. Over the 7 days we will be camping in little one man tents anywhere we can.
The bikes we will be riding are 1975 Honda PC50 peddle and pops, they are started by peddiling like you do on a push bike hence the name "peddle and pop" they do a top speed of 30mph on the flat if you're lucky, up hill they are pretty useless so a lot of peddling will be done, especially in Scotland. Each ped will be modified to carry tents, clothes and anything else that we will need for the 7 days.
The charity that I have chosen is "baby unit fund" it is a charity close to my heart because my younges son Henry was rushed into Hull Royal Infirmary at 19 days old after he stopped breathing in the night and required 7 days intensive treatment to make a full recovery and was able to return home.
The excellent care and treatment Henry received from the staff and equipment they have available to the children saved his life, for this we will be forever grateful to this hospital.
We would like to raise any amount of money to go towards any new equipment that the hospital needs to continue the excellent job they are doing saving babies lives.
I will also keep this thread up to date with any planning we have, one of the peds is currently in a million bits so we can restore it to a better condition that it was in, if any of you are interested I could try and do a build update on it too?
Moderator edit: we don't allow charity donation requests, but please feel free to keep us up to date on your exploits.
Edited by jeremyc on Friday 15th November 20:00
So in other completely unrelated news, I was looking at this really cool website...
http://www.justgiving.com/John-Bean
http://www.justgiving.com/John-Bean
That looks like a very good website you have found there. Nice looking ped :-)
I've just got off the phone to my dad and we are taking a trip to the white horse in the yorkshire moors from my home town, it's about 70ish miles up some pretty steep hills..... Nice little test for the peds :-)
John
I've just got off the phone to my dad and we are taking a trip to the white horse in the yorkshire moors from my home town, it's about 70ish miles up some pretty steep hills..... Nice little test for the peds :-)
John
ds!My first moped was a Honda PC50 Graduate.
I rode from Hove to Bury on a Suzuki CS50 Roadie back in 1991.
On the first day I rode to High Wycombe (via Guildford, Brackness and Maidenhead) to see a friend then on to a Youth Hostel at Copt Oak near Coalville (via Aylesbury, Buckingham and Towcester where I picked up the A5 to Nuneaton then across to Coalville and finishing at the Youth Hostel adjacent M1 J22 and which is now closed). 185 miles in 7 hours' riding, average speed 26-ish mph.
On the second day I picked up the A6 at Loughborough and followed it to Chapel-en-le-Frith, then took the A624 across to Glossop, then on sundry roads through Stalybridge and on to Oldham then across to Middleton and 'cross country' to Bury. 120 miles in 5 hours' riding - the terrain was much more adverse this day, average speed 24mph. The moped struggled on the A6 near Taddington, overheating and the engine 'picking up' (starting to seize) but survived fine.
Average fuel economy for this trip was 120mpg, it cost a fiver for 2.5 gallons of petrol plus a quid for the Youth Hostel and a quid for a meal that night. (The train fare with Student Railcard was £23.10 for me and the same for the moped so it made economic sense!)
A PC50 is significantly slower than the CS50, being a four stroke - but it will be more economical...
Only thing to bear in mind is that you can't use motorways - but you'll soon realise that this isn't a bad thing, as well as how beautiful and pretty so much of the UK is!
Good luck
!
I rode from Hove to Bury on a Suzuki CS50 Roadie back in 1991.
On the first day I rode to High Wycombe (via Guildford, Brackness and Maidenhead) to see a friend then on to a Youth Hostel at Copt Oak near Coalville (via Aylesbury, Buckingham and Towcester where I picked up the A5 to Nuneaton then across to Coalville and finishing at the Youth Hostel adjacent M1 J22 and which is now closed). 185 miles in 7 hours' riding, average speed 26-ish mph.
On the second day I picked up the A6 at Loughborough and followed it to Chapel-en-le-Frith, then took the A624 across to Glossop, then on sundry roads through Stalybridge and on to Oldham then across to Middleton and 'cross country' to Bury. 120 miles in 5 hours' riding - the terrain was much more adverse this day, average speed 24mph. The moped struggled on the A6 near Taddington, overheating and the engine 'picking up' (starting to seize) but survived fine.
Average fuel economy for this trip was 120mpg, it cost a fiver for 2.5 gallons of petrol plus a quid for the Youth Hostel and a quid for a meal that night. (The train fare with Student Railcard was £23.10 for me and the same for the moped so it made economic sense!)
A PC50 is significantly slower than the CS50, being a four stroke - but it will be more economical...
Only thing to bear in mind is that you can't use motorways - but you'll soon realise that this isn't a bad thing, as well as how beautiful and pretty so much of the UK is!
Good luck
!RumpleFugly said:
So in other completely unrelated news, I was looking at this really cool website...
http://www.justgiving.com/John-Bean
http://www.justgiving.com/John-Bean
I've never seen PH remove a just giving link before, how odd.
Good luck OP, it sounds a good laugh
aw51 121565 said:
My first moped was a Honda PC50 Graduate.
I rode from Hove to Bury on a Suzuki CS50 Roadie back in 1991.
On the first day I rode to High Wycombe (via Guildford, Brackness and Maidenhead) to see a friend then on to a Youth Hostel at Copt Oak near Coalville (via Aylesbury, Buckingham and Towcester where I picked up the A5 to Nuneaton then across to Coalville and finishing at the Youth Hostel adjacent M1 J22 and which is now closed). 185 miles in 7 hours' riding, average speed 26-ish mph.
On the second day I picked up the A6 at Loughborough and followed it to Chapel-en-le-Frith, then took the A624 across to Glossop, then on sundry roads through Stalybridge and on to Oldham then across to Middleton and 'cross country' to Bury. 120 miles in 5 hours' riding - the terrain was much more adverse this day, average speed 24mph. The moped struggled on the A6 near Taddington, overheating and the engine 'picking up' (starting to seize) but survived fine.
Average fuel economy for this trip was 120mpg, it cost a fiver for 2.5 gallons of petrol plus a quid for the Youth Hostel and a quid for a meal that night. (The train fare with Student Railcard was £23.10 for me and the same for the moped so it made economic sense!)
A PC50 is significantly slower than the CS50, being a four stroke - but it will be more economical...
Only thing to bear in mind is that you can't use motorways - but you'll soon realise that this isn't a bad thing, as well as how beautiful and pretty so much of the UK is!
Good luck !
Thanks for the info about how long it took to do the miles :-) looks like we will be more likely to be doing 200miles a day if we ride for 9 hours do you think? How much slower is the pc50 do you think? I rode from Hove to Bury on a Suzuki CS50 Roadie back in 1991.
On the first day I rode to High Wycombe (via Guildford, Brackness and Maidenhead) to see a friend then on to a Youth Hostel at Copt Oak near Coalville (via Aylesbury, Buckingham and Towcester where I picked up the A5 to Nuneaton then across to Coalville and finishing at the Youth Hostel adjacent M1 J22 and which is now closed). 185 miles in 7 hours' riding, average speed 26-ish mph.
On the second day I picked up the A6 at Loughborough and followed it to Chapel-en-le-Frith, then took the A624 across to Glossop, then on sundry roads through Stalybridge and on to Oldham then across to Middleton and 'cross country' to Bury. 120 miles in 5 hours' riding - the terrain was much more adverse this day, average speed 24mph. The moped struggled on the A6 near Taddington, overheating and the engine 'picking up' (starting to seize) but survived fine.
Average fuel economy for this trip was 120mpg, it cost a fiver for 2.5 gallons of petrol plus a quid for the Youth Hostel and a quid for a meal that night. (The train fare with Student Railcard was £23.10 for me and the same for the moped so it made economic sense!)
A PC50 is significantly slower than the CS50, being a four stroke - but it will be more economical...
Only thing to bear in mind is that you can't use motorways - but you'll soon realise that this isn't a bad thing, as well as how beautiful and pretty so much of the UK is!
Good luck
!Did you do any changes to the seat or anything for the long distance? I'm thinking about making a bigger seat?
John
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