This Summer, we completed “The Great British Pub Ride”, cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a tandem bike – to highlight the plight facing pubs.
During the epic two-week journey, spanning more than a 1000 miles and with elevation in excess of 60,000 ft, we relied ENTIRELY on British pubs for absolutely everything – sleep, rest stops, sustenance and somewhere to soothe our battered backsides.
Accompanied by our Blind Tiger Films video crew, we filmed the entire journey for our YouTube channel. You can watch all the episodes HERE (and please like and subscribe!)
It was an incredible experience. One of the best things we have ever done, either professionally and personally….(to put that in some context, we’ve been to Thorpe Park).
It was also relentless and exhausting, with plenty of physical and psychological ups and downs, lots of botty cream and a quite spectacular crash.
But it was nothing compared to the daily struggles facing pubs up and down the country – visiting more than 70 British boozers, we witnessed first hand how tough things have become.
It’s brutal. Pubs are being taxed into oblivion – VAT, Business Rates, energy costs, national insurance, minimum wage hikes, absurd EPR regulations… death by a thousand cuts.
Now our backsides are better, and with pubs still suffering, our campaign continues – with plenty of plans afoot, some involving a tandem, some not.
In the meantime, please send your MP the “Great British Pub Ride” content and urge them to take action – pubs have been dropped to their knees by excessive taxation and they need our help.
