Great British Pub Ride

The Thinking Drinkers are cycling the length of Britain on a tandem bike, to help save the British Pub.

In the last forty years, the UK has lost a quarter of its pubs, six ‘locals’ are closing every single week and thousands are facing a very uncertain future.

Something needs to be done. So, we are going to be cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats and we will ONLY be eating, drinking, sleeping and stopping in British pubs – to showcase and remind everyone how flipping brilliant they can be.

During the gruelling 1000+ mile, two-week pub pilgrimage, there will be no shops, no restaurants, no coffee chains or cafes, no petrol stations. Not even a Londis or a Greggs.

If we don’t use pubs, we’ll lose them. So that’s what we’re doing, relying entirely on lovely ‘locals’ for our two week ride.

And we’re doing it on a tandem bike. Until recently, we’ve never ridden a tandem bike. But we’ve got one now, having borrowed one off a fella we met down the pub – the same pub, in fact, where we came up with this idea.