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A route avoiding the really shitty A roads looks like 90 Km, 1100m climbing. 50% lumps 50% flat. I don't do a lot of road riding so I'm not really sure how fast I will go. I'm pretty quick on local Strava leaderboards (top 10s maybe a Kom or 2 for popular local offroad climbs with 100+ other riders behind me) I average about 18-20Km/hr on a 2hr moderately technical XC ride, 22-24 Km/hr on a 2 hr gravel bike ride. That's moving average, but including stop/starting faffing with those for gates and that.
27Km/hr ish achievable over 3 hours 20 ish for Pickering to Leeds pure road?
A little bit of a tailwind expected. Solo, nobody to draft.
Guesses please 🙂
PS route I am plannign is basically howardian hills, Alne, Wetherby, Home.
Any better suggestions - please let me know. Hard to plan something decent.
Depends - is Ronnie going to be chasing you?
I did a similar ride last month riding from my sister's house near Helmsley (so a bit west of Pickering) to mine in the Peak District. I was with a friend who was doing a touring ride of National Parks, she was riding between parks and that was her North York Moors to Peak District day.
We went between Leeds and Tadcaster, down to Sheffield and then across from there.
However to get level with Leeds took us 4hrs 15mins total time, about 3.5hrs riding time (we stopped for a nice breakfast plus a couple of toilet and map reading stops).
We certainly weren't pushing it - she had some bikepacking luggage and was in the middle of a long touring holiday, and the ride itself wasn't "just" to Leeds, it was 125 miles in total so obviously pacing ourselves for the journey. Also, it was bloody freezing in the morning so took us a while to warm up properly.
I'd reckon on about 3hrs moving time plus whatever stops you do.
Brilliant, thanks. About what I thought it would take. Amazing really that it's only about an hour longer than taking the train once you've accounted for faffing at either end.
Try the cycle.travel planner. It gave me a 60 mile route on mainly quiet or traffic free roads - similar to what you are suggesting.
Depends – is Ronnie going to be chasing you?
Perfect