2-3 day cycle challenge - your ideas needed - Singletrack World Magazine July 30, 2015

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2-3 day cycle challenge – your ideas needed
piedidiformaggio
Free Member

Idle chat with a mate who’s looking for a challenge next year. He’s just swam the English Channel, so he’s not afraid of a bit of work.

Looking for something 2-3 days in duration with a reasonable, but not excessive, amount of cycling each day. Needs to be self supported and stopovers will be tents that we take with us.

Probably road rather than off-road (not my preference 🙁 )

Preferably use trains to get to where we need to go

Initial thoughts are a coast to coast of some sort or possibly Bruges to home (SE UK).

What can the hive mind suggest?

Posted 8 years ago

Bregante
Full Member

May not be enough of a challenge for someone who’s done the channel but the Way of The Roses is a cracking route. 2 days is perfectly feasible for a reasonably fit cyclist. 3 days makes for a more leisurely affair.

http://Www.wayoftheroses.info

Posted 8 years ago

lunge
Full Member

You could keep it simple and pick 2 places that are 250 – 300 miles apart and jus cycle between them, London – Paris is 250 miles, that could work, south coast to Manchester would be similar.

Posted 8 years ago

dknwhy
Full Member

ahem…

Posted 8 years ago

Sandwich
Full Member

Edinburgh-London and return?

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
Full Member

Across Scotland – some sort of Scottish coast to coast or along the north coast from Cape Wrath to JOG.

Proper remote stuff.

Posted 8 years ago

Esme
Free Member

“He’s just swam the English Channel”

Hmmm, do we now have shoals, as well as swarms? 😉

Posted 8 years ago