Find out how the idea came about and how the journey went, by reading onβ¦. Like many crazy ideas, this one started out as a beer-fuelled conversation at Skaerbaek last year between myself and Kev Gascoigne, Chief Fairy at Fairy Bricks. That sounded far more appealing! By Christmas, the team had been assembled and it was all starting to fall into place. I took responsibility for planning the route and after a few days came up with something using the excellent cycle route planing website cycle.
Once we had agreed the route, I divided it into Km segments and identified the nearest towns which would allow Kev to find and book suitable hotels. Kev sorted the accommodation and over the summer the four of us got out on our bikes as much as possible, while Kev was busy sorting things out with LEGO.
The 20th of September approached quickly and when the day arrived we all made our way to Leicester Square to be ready to set off from the brand store at 9am-ish. The store had yet to open to the public so we prepared for the ride and posed for a few photos inside.
The LEGO bike was built by Gary Davis, who clad a conventional cycle with bricks to make it look like an up-scaled minifig bike. It was never the intention to ride it all the way but it would be used for publicity shots and so on. At we mounted our bikes and set off through the London rush-hour. It was an incredibly windy day, thanks to Storm Bronagh but thankfully it was a westerly tailwind which helped rather than hindered. In fact I recorded my fastest ever 40Km that day, in 1hr 30m.
We arrived in Harwich around 5pm so had time to recover in the local Morrisons cafe before we could board our ferry at Storm Bronagh continued to batter northern Europe as we arrived in Holland although the forecasted rain did not accompany it. The westerly wind helped us once again as we headed through delightful Dutch countryside to Den Haag The Hague where we met our first accompanying cyclist Lars, who lives in the city.
