Proof that Rob works hard on a weekend too...

Simon Pelly • June 1, 2023

Look out Cavendish, move over Hoy, we’ve got Rob Brown!

A group of people are riding bicycles down a road.

Arguably the fastest person on two wheels in our business, we’d all like to pass on our congratulations to Rob, who completed the ridiculously hard Fred Whitton challenge last week, with his friends from @teesdale_crc



Rob completed the 112 mile course, with 12000ft of climbing in an official time of 7hours 44minutes, which is an improvement of nearly 30minutes on his 2018 time, despite having had a child and no sleep in those 5 years!


Well done Rob, from all of us at S&A Fabrications

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