And So It Begins!

FIRST OF ALL TEAM SHORT WAY DOWN WOULD LIKE TO SAY A BIG BIG BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE SPONSORED AND HELPED US ALONG THE WAY

Team Short Way Down was created when Phil "the hands" Read decided to take part in the epic downhill bike race the Maxi Avalanche, He was gonna do it last year but took a pretty bad spill just before and was laid up for a bit and had to walk like frankenstein for a while, back to full health and ready to rip he's decided to do it again, only this time he's found two other mad gits to do it with him in the form of Ric and Ant!

LET THE MAYHEM COMMENCE!!

With tour tashes brewing (see link) and 3 days to go and all is sorted, race entry, ferry, insurance just one thing left to work out, the van to shoulder width equation, so i reckon its gonna go something like this! 

                              us         ('''''''''''''''''''''''''''')(''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''')(''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''')

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                            van               [''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''']

                                                                        = bugger!!!

(id like to point out in its defence, that phil has a big van but we are pretty wide boys)

could be interesting, so google maps reckons 1,063 miles about 18hrs each way thats a whole load of veg oil!! (the vans on 100% now and running a treat)

The journey will be broken up though so all is not lost, 6hrs down to Portsmouth, then a ferry to La Harve (9 hrs) then down to Limoges to stay at a boar farm as far as I can tell, the generous people there are letting us stay in their cottage on the way down, then its off to La Massana to find a place to stay, get a lift pass and start training in the bike park and on the mountain, this of course is if we can stop Ant making us take some mad detours to pick up rare cheeses and wines and other mad food stuffs along the way.