Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google (I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
It's something I'm thinking of doing next year. I'm very fortunate that I can afford to take several months off work to do something daft like this (I still live at home with my parents so I have no mortgage to worry about, and being a nurse I have job that I can leave safe in the knowledge that it'll be dead easy to find a job again afterwards.)
Having failed to get off my [censored] and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday I need to punish myself by doing something much more difficult before I'm 31.
So has anybody got any experiences of cycling all the way around our green and pleasant land?
Love and circles from Rich x
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Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
Josie Dew has a book on her tour of GB.
Cheers, helen s
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Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google (I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
It's something I'm thinking of doing next year. I'm very fortunate that I can afford to take several months off work to do something daft like this (I still live at home with my parents so I have no mortgage to worry about, and being a nurse I have job that I can leave safe in the knowledge that it'll be dead easy to find a job again afterwards.)
Having failed to get off my [censored] and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday I need to punish myself by doing something much more difficult before I'm 31.
So has anybody got any experiences of cycling all the way around our green and pleasant land?
Love and circles from Rich x
The coast line is about 7,000 miles and the coast roads about 5,500 miles. At 60 miles a day it should take you about 3-4 months going fairly solid, longer if you have a few days off. There was an article about someone that did it in the CTC magazine about 5-6 years ago.
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: I think someone else also wrote a book about his trip, either Nicholas (Nick) Crane or Ian : Hibbell.
Paul Theroux did it on foot/public transport in about 1981 - he documented it in 'The Kingdom By The Sea', Penguin, ISBN 0-14-007181-4
HTH
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Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
Sort of... I was part of a team that did it as a relay in 1983. Twelve people split into three shifts of four did London-Troon via Land's End; the second group of twelve[1] took over and went round the top of Scotland and back down the east coast. 10 days 14 hours and a few minutes. To qualify "officially" as a Round-Britain, you need to cover at least 3675 miles.
1 - acksherly there were only 11 of us for the first two days, on account of Richard Barron still being in southern Corsica...
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:03:22 +0000, in <[email hidden]>, Zog The Undeniable <[email hidden]>
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Having failed to get off my [censored] and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday
I was going to do precisely that too, but couldn't find anyone else mad enough (I'm now 34 and I *will* do it one day).
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The coast line is about 7,000 miles and the coast roads about 5,500 miles.
Hmmm, there are several places around here where you could save 30 miles by taking a ferry across an estuary - is that allowed?
There must be an official route but is it measured as negotiable by car or cycle? IE Dartford Crossing is negotiable by both but not the Second Severn Bridge. And then you have foot/bike only ferries eg Felixstowe.Anyone got a spare couple of days and the RAC route planner?;-) MM
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Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
Josie Dew has a book on her tour of GB.
Cheers, helen s
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'Turn Right At Lands' End by Merrill. J. is a book about a chap who walked it. He refused to use estuary crossing (due to his own self imposed rules). He carried a rucksack and camping gear and took about a year.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:54:23 +0000 (UTC), in <[email hidden]>, Richard Bates
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Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google (I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
I got the book "[censored] Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" for Christmas.
Unfortunately the vast majority of them appear to be on the coast :-(
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I got the book "[censored] Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" for Christmas.
Unfortunately the vast majority of them appear to be on the coast :-(
EEK!
Richard
"[censored] Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" reminds me of a novel-sized piece that was given to a school mate by his girlfriend for his 18th. The book was entitled "Everything Men Know About Women", and the back cover was full of the sort of proclamations one might expect on the rear of a blockbuster (they were all made up).
The hundred-odd pages inside the book were all totally blank.
James
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Yes I read that. I was especially pleased to see Brighton in there. And St Albans (most expensive houses in the UK and still [censored]! ;-)
Winchester's entry is spot-on, if you've ever ventured there at night!
strangely enough I have, but only to find a nice quite place to kip in car prior to Da Muvva (aka the BHF SDW Randonee). Was sufficiently scared off to go back to a small hamlet on the route. Woke up at 5am by the sound of three mtcb tyres brubrubbrubbing along the tarmac, thought _b***cks I've missed the start_ but they were just being extra keen, or did not want to pay £25 for 4 sheets of A4;-)
