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Stars saddle up for epic Calcutta Cup challenge

Jon Newcombe talks to John Hall about his gruelling charity bike ride

Tartan rider: Rob Wainright carries the ball during last year’s challenge

CYCLING 500 miles clad in tartan from London up to Edinburgh is not every Englishman’s ideal Calcutta Cup build-up.
Normally a leisurely train journey or flight accompanied by a sufficient amount of beer while dressed in red and white is the order of the day.
Bath president and one of the club’s greatest players, John Hall, is honoured to be putting himself through such torture. For that is nothing compared to what Doddie Weir a...

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