Hi there,
Planning to ride this route next weekend with a friend. Would a mountain bike set up for commuting fair OK on the terrain - is it all gravel path or is some of it proper bridleway? The bike has fairly slick Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres on it.
Cheers!
I did the same ride a few years back & you will be fine with commuter tyres. The majority of the route is on quiet roads & tarmac/gravel cycle paths with very few 'extreme' bw trails requiring anything close to proper off road tyres. I had commuter tyres on my Halfords MTB special & they were fine.
It's a great route & very picturesque along the way. I can recommend stopping off at the [url= http://www.yarde-orchard.co.uk/ ][b]Yarde Orchard cafe[/b] [/url] for something to eat & drink on the way.
Sweet! Thanks for the info - just hope for this wind to stop and the sun to come out and it'll be perfect!
just hope for this wind to stop and the sun to come out and it'll be perfect!
Now you've gone and said it, it'll probably snow all weekend now 🙄
just hope for this wind to stop and the sun to come out and it'll be perfect!
Lol - good luck with that one, some of the route is pretty exposed & in wet/windy weather it could be a 'challenging' ride.
I did the stretch from Ilfracombe to Okehampton on a Kaffenback with road tyres the year before last and it was fine. Thinks there's a bit more off road between there and Plymouth but still fine on commuter tyres. We were trying to do it in a day bit didn't start early enough and got a bit lost near the beginning.