As we were being eaten alive, talk kept coming back to the big event of a few weeks earlier, "CycleFest '96."
The following morning, at the bottom of the valley, Tom Mason & Neil Coles headed home, the remaining four of us; Tom Wilson, Tom Johnston, Jason Patient & Seamus King headed to Milfield Cafe for breakfast.
Over many pots of tea, a seed of an idea sown the night before, continued to grow.
A Cycling Festival of our own.
Small because we were unsure if it would work.
At Wooler youth hostel because Tom J was the assistant warder.
In November to give us time to organise, to contact friends, so that friends in the cycle business could come.
Only one thing was left to be settled, the name.
Tom Johnston said it, "Bike Right."
A name which emphasises the positive elements of cycling; cycling is right, the right to ride a bike and the other reason...
Tom Wilson delivered sandwiches for, "Bite Rite."
The hostel was booked and the date set, history was about to be made.
