Crit racer and cycling speed freak Alec Briggs joins Jack Thurston, as they leave the noise of London behind and follow | dG1fVTdRblhoWTlhR1k
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:01 As much as a third of the entire length
00:04 of Britain's road network is made up of rural lanes,
00:07 Neolithic trackways, Roman roads,
00:10 and medieval pilgrim trails,
00:12 which all tell the story of the land itself.
00:15 (upbeat music)
00:18 Now I love the buzz of crit racing.
00:23 - Bit of a legend in fixed gear racing is Alec Briggs.
00:26 - And speeding through the city.
00:28 - Yeah man, dragging it past buses.
00:31 - And I never slow down.
00:33 - It's always race, race, race, train, train, train.
00:36 - But I'm told Jack Fursten is a man who can teach me how.
00:40 - There's the tree that deserves a hug.
00:42 - He's agreed to take me back in time.
00:47 - Just to think of all the feet and hooves
00:50 that must've come this way.
00:51 - To convince me that slow and steady.
00:54 - It's not slow cycling, is it?
00:55 - Always wins the race of life.
00:57 - What are we doing here, Jack?
00:58 - It's too deep.
00:59 - We're here too deep, you can do that,
01:00 that's not even a foot.
01:01 - Like, is that working?
01:03 - What's going on here?
01:04 - I mean, we could just go caught.
01:06 - It's not that far, is it?
01:07 - Throw your weight back.
01:10 (laughing)
01:14 - We're heading southeast, out of London,
01:17 through Kent, and all the way to Canterbury.
01:20 - Look at that, that is impressive.
01:24 - It's huge, isn't it?
01:25 - Breathing in the fresh air.
01:27 - This is what I live for.
01:28 This is what I live for.
01:29 - Riding the trails.
01:31 - This could be part of a much longer journey for me.
01:34 - And soaking up the history.
01:37 - We just like hit an off-road bit.
01:38 It's a lot of the pilgrims way off-road.
01:40 - You ready to wash away all your sins
01:45 and become a pilgrim by full body immersion
01:50 in this beautiful Chalk Stream River?
01:53 - I think I might like my sins.
01:55 (upbeat music)
01:58 (upbeat music)
02:01 (dramatic music)
02:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]