{"id":4197,"date":"2025-10-18T02:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1976-big-jims-big-boozy-bike-trip-to-braemar-nationwide-weird-and-wonderful-bbc-archive\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:39:18","slug":"1976-big-jims-big-boozy-bike-trip-to-braemar-nationwide-weird-and-wonderful-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1976-big-jims-big-boozy-bike-trip-to-braemar-nationwide-weird-and-wonderful-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1976: BIG JIM&#8217;s Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZk2jV5gJbM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;He starts the day as he means to continue, with a wee dram.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Join Big Jim Collie &#8211; a Scottish crofter who lives alone in a bothy in the foothills of the Cairngorms &#8211; as he embarks on one of his epic cross-highland trips. Jim is on his way to Braemar, which is 60 miles away &#8211; if you plan on sticking to the roads. Luckily, Big Jim knows a shortcut through the Lairig Ghru &#8211; the highest mountain pass in the highest mountain range in Britain &#8211; that brings the journey down to a more manageable 22 miles, albeit over some of the harshest terrain in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Big Jim has a secret weapon; the Lairig Flyer, a rickety old bicycle. Furthermore, he has a wealth of experience &#8211; this is his 105th crossing of the Lairig Ghru. Perhaps most importantly of all, he has strategically stashed an armful of whisky bottles along the route &#8211; just the thing to keep his spirits up.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Casey reports.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 20 January, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website &#8211; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cZk2jV5gJbM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He starts the day as he means to continue, with a wee dram.&#8221; Join Big Jim Collie &#8211; a Scottish crofter who lives alone in a bothy in the foothills of the Cairngorms &#8211; as he embarks on one of his epic cross-highland trips. Jim is on his way to Braemar, which is 60 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":4198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3227,8623,1023,1019,15,1022,8618,8612,8617,1021,8610,1020,8624,8611,8622,8613,8621,8608,1026,5722,8619,8607,3210,1025,8620,1027,8609,8615,1024,8616,1028,8614],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1970s-nostalgia","tag-70s-scotland","tag-archive","tag-archive-bbc","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-archive","tag-bike-rides","tag-bothy-scotland","tag-braemar-scotland","tag-british-tv-nostalgia","tag-cairngorms-national-park","tag-classic-tv","tag-crofter","tag-cross-country-bike-trip","tag-drunk-bike-riding","tag-highland-bike-trip","tag-jim-collie","tag-lairig-ghru","tag-legendary-television","tag-luke-casey","tag-mountain-biking","tag-nationwide","tag-nationwide-bbc","tag-nostalgia","tag-retro-mountain-bike-ride","tag-retro-tv","tag-scottish-highlands","tag-scottish-whisky","tag-the-bbc-archive","tag-tough-guy","tag-vintage","tag-whisky","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}