Badlands day 2

Warning. Really bad internet… image quality had to be reduced. Great hotel last night , super meal and good breakfast. Lovely pool. Set off 9.15 straight onto gravel and I don’t think we saw tarmac all day. Into big climb to 2300 m first. The usual pecking order...

Badlands Day1

Breakfast at 8 , toast con tomate , cafe con leche , you can see my 153 day streak in Duolingo coming the fore. The break established itself early with Tim ,the wee English fella (twef) , and CLS. The rest of us in the grupetto settled back to enjoy the day. Coffee at...

The Real Badlands day 0

Early start 3.30am pickup. 5 bikes in the van plus Sean and COC. Two johns ( SCO and CLS) plus Paul in the other car. Flew through checkin and security. Big fry natually. Uneventful flight although sad to report that John (sco) turned left at the plane door👀. The rest...

The Dolomite Triumphs

Or perhaps 3 days in Corvara at the Good Greif Hotel! Doc Lewis has been plotting this for a long time with an exemplary cast including Top Gear Driver BS , The two Doc Lewis’s , COC, BG , The Banker , Air Con man himself HB not forgetting the Silver Fox PS . We...

Tim Lewis Blog – Transatlantic Way Race 2025

I finally completed the 2420km version of the Transatlantic Way (TAW) in June 2025. I’m putting down some thoughts, just a couple of weeks later while my memory is still fresh. This is going to be quite a long blog and you mightn’t want to read it all – I’ll write a...