Icons of cycling: The Cape Wrath Fellowship

A ride along the wildest road in Britain is a challenge that still attracts people of all ages and was invented by this very magazine

Cycling Weekly's ragged staff are still
proud of Rex Coley. Photo: Chris Auld

Cape Wrath is not the most welcoming place in the UK. One of only two capes in the entire country, it sits on the north-west tip of Scotland, a beautiful wilderness with dramatic cliffs where the North Sea battles the Atlantic Ocean.

It is a breathtaking place, and in 1949 it inspired a cycling journalist to create a fellowship dedicated to the experience of riding along Britain’s wildest, most remote road.

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