http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Paul Heaton pub cycle tour 2010 en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:21:43 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300698 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:22:42 +0000 gembo 300698@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iainmcr, my memory is that you acquired the book at the big barge giveway by CHDot</p> <p>@crowriver, yes I liked that quip also </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300682 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:26:10 +0000 crowriver 300682@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great quip from Heaton in the Indy article:</p> <p>---</p> <p>So committed is he to the cyclist's life that I have to ask him if he shaves his legs. (Apparently, it improves your aerodynamics.) "No," he replies. "I'm just remarkably hairless. I only went through puberty when I was 42." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300678 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:51:45 +0000 dessert rat 300678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>David Byrne toured with folding bke and wrote Bicycle Diaries, when may I get a shot of that book?</em></p> <p>just properly read that part - I know I had a copy, didn't I give it to you at PY ? pretty sure I gave it to someone, or it could be on a shelf and I imagined that I did. Will look. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300677 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:47:18 +0000 dessert rat 300677@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4862/32040690017_7dc0be2335.jpg"></p> <p>pic currently on the wall of my friend house, who's tandam it was. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300646 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:07:34 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300646@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To Radnage on a Tandem.</p> <p>Autobiography title quality content. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300642 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 07:59:17 +0000 gembo 300642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iainmcr, nice one. The coverage in the Independent has Heaton and his roAdie taking the journalist down the hard shoulder of the dual carriage way on their bikes, towards the Isle of Sheppey. Journo not happy. Heaton saying, no problem as wind was behind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300640 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:12:30 +0000 dessert rat 300640@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I went to this, on a tandem.</p> <p>Three Horse shoes in Radnage. Got a shout out as we were the only people to arrive on bikes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300634 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:22:10 +0000 gembo 300634@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good shout blueth, I will get it from the van </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300633 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:59:44 +0000 Blueth 300633@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There are two copies available in the Edinburgh Libraries catalogue............. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300632 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:21:41 +0000 gembo 300632@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks @sallyhinch, will take you up on this unless @iiainmcr lends me his first..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300630 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:27:40 +0000 sallyhinch 300630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gembo I have a copy you may borrow if our paths ever cross in the near future </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300629 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 16:26:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice - he's picked some lovely stuff. Lots of music only made sense to me when I realised it was folk like Half Man Half Biscuit or country like the Proclaimers.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U30FXNtQoCQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U30FXNtQoCQ</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19435#post-300627 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 15:54:33 +0000 gembo 300627@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Research (Google) reveals the 2500 mile tour of England, Scotland and Wales with 50 miles cycling in between for his 50th birthday in 2010 may have end up as a smaller 720 mile tour of England with 16 pubs source NME. Guardian interview at the time had him in Kings Head (not sure which kings head) in London and then a tour start in Porthmadog, Wales. So not clear.</p> <p>Bob Mortimer picked one Beautiful South duet where they are both American country stars, for his Desert Island discs. Catch that show on the iplayer. Has many of his Would I Lie to you True Stories. And Joni of course.</p> <p>Correction, looks like he did the 16 date pub tour by bicycle in 2010 then in 2012 a 40 night pub tour by bicycle, in covering 2500 miles, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland</p> <p>Also pub was Kings Arms in Salford which he owned.</p> <p>The Beautiful Sputh split up citing musical similarities</p> <p>Wolfgang Fluhr left Kraftwerk saying there was too much cycling inside Kraftwerk and not enough music.</p> <p>David Byrne toured with folding bke and wrote Bicycle Diaries, when may I get a shot of that book? </p>