A Customer Story: Tandem Tales

We won't lie- we all felt a mix between 'inspired' and 'lazy' a couple of weeks ago when a couple, customers of ours for many years, came into the showroom. Mike and Jenny Rea, who travel all the way from Bude to come to us for their annual services on their Honda, mentioned in passing that they had taken a 'trip' in the previous months. Hannah in Service later established that far from being just a 'trip', Mr and Mrs Rea had actually taken what can only be described as an epic adventure- donning their cycling gear, hopping on a tandem and cycling from Lands End to John o' Groats- and then (for reasons unbeknownst to us) all the way back again!

The journey- a near 2000 mile round trip- took Mike and Jenny seven weeks to complete. Staying in a 2 man hiking tent- which they towed in a trailer with the rest of their equipment behind their tandem bike- they braved the elements (it was only dry on 6 days!) to complete the trip.

This image was taken at the start of the trip, as they were departing from Lands End in Penzance, Cornwall, looking dry and happy. We cannot help but wonder whether the photos were quite the same at the end!

All of us here, at Devonshire Motors, would like to congratulate Mike and Jenny on their truly epic trip- you would not believe how much discussion your story provoked in the showroom and how many of us it inspired to hop on our bikes! Not quite the same, we appreciate, but you have to start somewhere! We'd also like to thank them profusely for kindly allowing us to write about it.

We love hearing what our customers are up to, particularly when their stories are as inspiring as this one, so do please let us know if you've done anything exciting recently, we always like to know (and we promise to ask first before we blog about it!)