What have you bought today?

[Mottie]

I fancy having a crack at it on my bike, lowest seat ever.

Go for it. Another one we did was the Grossglockner but it was thick fog when we did it! That was nice!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yeah, I saw plenty of those before I did it. We went up the bendy bit and down the other side into Bormio where we stayed for the night. That’s a fast ride down through some sweeping bends. Thing is, you have to keep moving round those hairpin bends. There’s such a camber on them that if you stop, your foot doesn’t reach the ground on the side that you need to put your foot down which is why many people fall over.

I driven and biked, the both Wrynose and Hardknott passes numerous times, not sure which of the two, but one of them has a very steep downhill, with a hairpin in the middle, and a camber which makes it impossible to stop and get a foot down, once you start the descent, with a ravine, either side. Last time, I thought to try it on the Viffer, and just couldn't get as much lock as I wanted. I almost came off.