Monkeys Go North
What a lucky lad I am – my wife Alex’s passion for bikes matches my own. Even so, I was surprised when, for her ‘special birthday’ she said she’d like a tour of the Pyrenees... on Honda Monkey bikes. A long ride on inappropriate bikes sounded like a great idea – a tour on our ‘proper’ bikes would have made much more sense but doing something daft occasionally can be good for the soul.
That was all before Covid, which of course put pay to any possibility of foreign travel. So, what could we do instead? Neither of us had ridden in the Lake District or Scotland before, largely because we’d been put off by the potential for rain and midges. But Scotland on Monkey bikes had a certain appeal so we planned a route, booked hotels and bought two new
