I’m planning to cycle across to our house in France next August, I’ve planned a route of 250 miles or so. My wife normally drives over and spends six weeks over there, I join her for the last two weeks and then we all drive back together. Instead of flying over I’m going to take the St Malo ferry and then cycle down to our house. I’m looking at doing it in about 4 days and shall use the ferry crossing as one of the overnight sleeps.
Now I’ve gone and started planning all this and my wife has turned round and said she’d love to do it the year after too. She’s going to be turning 50 and would love to do something like this too.
Now she has a little MTB but I know that she’d be a lot better off on some sort of touring frame ( I personally use a Lemond Poprad cyclo cross bike, it gets used for everything). If I’m going to get her fit enough to come with me we’re going to have to get out with the local road club and put some miles under our wheels. Does anyone have any suggestions for a reasonably priced bike that would be suitable for her, she needs about a 48cm frame as she’s about 5’2″ Any help will be much appreciated.