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anyone got any touring planned.
on or offroad.
where you going?
we are, we are doing the Castles and Coast South at the beginning of May - sustrans route so on side roads and gravel tracks. We are camping so lucky MrPP gets to pull the trailer up the climbs. MrPP has some riding planned when we are in the US in September but that is not really touring.
Would like to do something
Going to northern France in August for a wedding, taking the bikes and doing a spot of light touring with my daughter. 😀
Cape Wrath and back from Inverness, on a week-long CTC-tour.
(Done it before and going as deputy to help a mate out).
Oh yes, train to Oban - ferry to Barra or Sth Uist, ride up to Tarbert then ferry back to Skye, cycle down and cross to Mallaig then back down to Oban. Or maybe carry on up to Stornaway and ferry back to Ullapool. Haven't decided yet. Anyways, train back from wherever I get to.
It'll be in May, hopefully after the ice has thawed a little but before the midges appear. Can't wait.
Oh, doing Hadrains Wall NCN72 with Mrs Pickers as well later in the year.
Mrs Poddy - snap - also doing coast and castles in early May 🙂 First tour for me and I'm really looking forward to it.
Just need to get a rack and some panniers sorted for the pompetamine...
hope you all have good fun.
starting my touring year a week on friday with a 3 day jaunt around the north yorkshire moors.
at the end of april me and the good lady are having 4 days in belgium on the bikes
and then i have a week planned touring the distillaries in september.
gonna be a good year hopefully....... 😀
Camino de Santiago (the Camino Frances version) from 27th of this month, dry run of Coast'n'Castles mid May ahead of helping a group do it in September.
Hoping the weather in Spain decides what it's doing, it's been sub zero and snowing 'til recently! 😯
Doing the Way of the Roses in May mit tandem and still trying to talk Mrs Boblo into touring Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia later in the year....
Me and my mate are doing the Coast to Castles Newcastle to Edinburgh route over 3 days during the Easter break. 2 nights camping then a hotel in Edinburgh. I need to get a few miles under my belt before then!
4 days in belgium on the bikes
We did this last year and it was great! Belgian beers, super-wide bike lanes, beautiful cities (Bruges, Ghent), the tour of flanders museum, visiting a few war cemeteries, shaking hands with Eddie Mercx at the Menin Gate...lovely. 🙂 Enjoy yourselves!
Stuff. There are big areas of Scotland I need to visit, I'm still after a decent route to see some nice bits of England. And I have a Celtic Capitals plan.
Pretty well as Pickers above.Last week of May into June.
I've got a 4 dayer planned at the end of may taking in the delights of North western scotland. Can't wait!!
Hopefully 2 or 3 weeks somewhere around the Basques region of France in May, depending on elderly relatives staying well.
Not sure yet whether there are many camp sites open at that time of year down there though.
A jaunt to France hopefully with Leffeboy, a bit of mixed on and off road multi day touring in Scotland, and some island hopping with Ton in September. Nt really a tour but I fancy a ride out to the Loch Ossian youth hostel too.
mcmoonter - the SYHA also run a B&B (with evening meals) at Corrour Station.
Back to Denmark for Mrs Mugsy, Etienne (5) Pia (will be 3) and myself in the summer for 3 weeks. Planning on going up northland and getting there by train from home near Grenoble (riding to the train station I hope). Might be our last tour with a trailer.
Last year we island hopped from the German border over to Copenhagen and back. Camping all the way sometimes in the free nature (nature not naturist!) campsites. Great times, hoping and planning for more.
+1 here for Coasts and castle north - early may!!
See you all out there!!!!
Actually if anyone has done the Coasts and Castles route do they recommend doing the coastal route in its entirety or the alternative route taking in Innerleithen and on up to Edinburgh?
I'm going via Innerleithen, but I can't actually remember why I opted for that.
welsh coast in May, western isles in Sept and lots of small stuff in between
Ireland in the Summer!
Mostly on road & in independant hostels.
Can't wait.
Going to northern France in September for a wedding, taking the bikes and doing a spot of light touring with my wife and some friends. 😀
enjoy yours, neil!
Anyone done any touring in Normandy/Brittany?
I have a half-baked notion of doing a loop over a long weekend, starting at one English Channel port accessible through Portsmouth, and coming back via another. However, don't want to do a pointless tour of some scabby industrialised and desolate coastline.
Do they have Sustrans (SustFrans?!) equivalent routes?
As I say, the notion is very much at the half-baked stage at the moment. Would be glad to hear people's experiences.
Cycling from Reading to Frankfurt to visit my Dad. Plan on doing it 100% wild and solo. Not sure if I'll cycle back. Will have to see.
Going to do a few days over the South Downs in the summer, start on the SDW in Winchester and finish on the SDW in Eastbourne, but mix up a fair bit of road in between with the SDW and take in some of the villages along the way.
This [url= http://cyclingeurope.org/the-other-eurovelos/eurovelo-12/ ]EuroVelo 12[/url] runs past my door. I just need a good enough excuse or a bad enough day to get on it.
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Just spent the weekend test fitting new luggage!
Train to Glasgow on the 23rd. Nine days, Up through Tarbet around a bit,Glen Coe for two days, Great Glen to Inverness and then drunk on the train back to merry Lincolnshire
Yipppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
(Snow last Easter!!!!!)
Planning to drive to Dover-ish, then ferry to Calais and cycle the north coast through Belgium and into Netherlands, with the mrs in late summer.
some nice sounding trips everyone.
Basil, that looks a good old set up, are you taking the kitchen sink..;o)
Lucky it's never windy in Scotland.
Me thinks a cross wind could be fun?
P.S.
It's a tent for me - non of that tarp style accommadation
And I'm not going nowhere without me Snowpeak Titanium French Press
How did that happen
headfirst - Member
Me and my mate are doing the Coast to Castles Newcastle to Edinburgh route over 3 days during the Easter break. 2 nights camping then a hotel in Edinburgh. I need to get a few miles under my belt before then!
Yep me too, kind of, same weekend although we are actually doing Berwick-Edinburgh via Innerleithen then back along the coastal route
May see you en route, staying Clovenfords on the Friday night, Edinburgh hostel on the Saturday
clareymorris - Member
Actually if anyone has done the Coasts and Castles route do they recommend doing the coastal route in its entirety or the alternative route taking in Innerleithen and on up to Edinburgh?
Will let you know, although I suspect the alternative to be better
[quote=clareymorris ]Actually if anyone has done the Coasts and Castles route do they recommend doing the coastal route in its entirety or the alternative route taking in Innerleithen and on up to Edinburgh?
I did Berwick - Dunbar last year and Berwick - Edinburgh the year before. In 2012 I followed the coast almost all the way. In 2011 I cut up through Duns and the B6355 to Gifford and Pencaitland. That's a lovely route.
I should have GPX tracks of both if anyone is interested.
Arran, Islay and Colonsay. Basically a distillery tour with some cycling thrown in.
I intend too, not sure where yet tho..
Oooo, double post.. 😕
All being well I'll be soloing around Germany for a few weeks, on road, on my trusty 70s Claud Butler unless something Mercian shaped enters my life.
A week in the golden triangle for me. Heading to Chiang Mai in April for a spot of credit card touring. Can't wait!
Stef McDef:
We've toured along the N Brittany coastline from Roscoof to Aberwrach you could then continue onto Brest, or extned befroe Roscoff to do from St. Malo. We were only doing small days of no more than 40km as had the kids and weren't really too well set up then. Also every day or so I would spend a morning retracing steps to leapfrog our car down the coast with us. Some really good bits, some flat cabbage patch bits. But it's definitely worth doing.
Off to the USA tomorrow! San Diego to Florida then back to home in mid May with 8 weeks touring under my belt and what we laughingly call a summer in Scotland still to come.
Off to the USA tomorrow
Iain, post up your blog link, I'm looking forward to your trip vicariously.
yes,
hoping to do a lap of the yorkshire moors on the tandem with the wife. amongst other things,
irc, keep us imformed with nice photo's. 😀
Certainly going back to northern France for a while... It's so close to the south coast of England and far more French....
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Not exactly, but getting ready for an SR next year, been putting it off for too long. Got a Brooks, a Caradice and a dynohub wheel on it's way; sorted 🙂
Wait for northernly wind and warm dry spell.
Drive to uig on Skye, leave car.
Ferry to North Uist
Fat bike on tarmac blast down to the southern tip of South Uist in one go.
Beach ride all the way North and East back the the ferry over couple of days chilling all the way.
Anyone know if there is a good Orange phone signal on the Island?
In the next couple of weeks if the weather breaks I'll do either Way of the Roses or Hadrian's wall. Then in summer I'd like a crack at LEJOG traffic free/off road or something foreign, maybe Camino de Santiago or a chunk of something French.
oldgit......a SR is no mean feat pal.
set off with all the gusto about 5 yrs ago to do it. managed to get up to 300km, but then decided i never wanted to try to ride over 200 miles in a day ever.
good luck with it mate.
A week in the golden triangle for me. Heading to Chiang Mai in April for a spot of credit card touring. Can't wait!
...did that a few years ago for a week on a rented xr250 from Chiang Mai, then did the Mae Hong Son loop and many of the track it encircles - awesome fun!
Touring-wise looking to do a week Hut-to-Hut based from Garmisch, mid-summer'ish.
What's an SR?
SR = Super Randonneur. It's a Audax award for riding (IIRC) a 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km audax in one calendar year.
****! 600 clicks in one sitting 😯
I can see (and have done) 2, 3 and 4 but 6. Yikes. Good luck. You know, there'll be 600km sportive before long (strictly no racing dontchaknow), just wait and see. 🙂
I feel sleepy thinking about the 600km. I think you're expected to have a nap or two.
So you're growing out of all this racey stuff and going for distance instead?
So you're growing out of all this racey stuff and going for distance instead?
No, want to to do both. I'm 53 and race with the 40year old vets. Next year will be my last in that range and bloody tough, so I'm going to have a bit of fun. Then go for it again when I'm 55 and in the next age band.
Just entered a audax on the 7th of April, and was promptly reminded that I'm over the Channel watching the Paris Roubaix; age!
post up your blog link,
Peter
My crazyguyonabike blog is at
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/fatman3
Irc, I've been following your preparations, have a great trip.