Northumberland 250
Discussion
Has anyone done the Northumberland 250. Thinking about doing it at the end of Oct on a motorbike,
What's the route like? Is it a mixture of good driving roads as well as scenic roads. I did the nc500 a few years ago and although it's beautiful scenery, you spend a lot of time on single track slow roads.
https://northumberland250.com/
What's the route like? Is it a mixture of good driving roads as well as scenic roads. I did the nc500 a few years ago and although it's beautiful scenery, you spend a lot of time on single track slow roads.
https://northumberland250.com/
Thanks for the info, I'll give a go.
Do you have any suggestions of good roads?
coppice said:
Not enough absurd, bandwagon jumping tourist route ? Why do people need a name for a route ? Northumberland has some lovely drives , but , like everywhere else , you really shouldn't need the stamp of tourist board publicity before you try them . Just look at a map and drive where looks most interesting . Instead ,we can probably look forward to convoys of sheep in MX5s and Elises (etc )
Its not that easy to just look at a map when you're re on a bike. I normally have to pre plan a route and load it into a satnav. I don't fancy spending my time riding around aimlessly, with no idea where you're going. For a couple of days riding, it looks like a easy win and some time saving for me.Do you have any suggestions of good roads?
coppice said:
It is dead easy- how do you think people navigated before satnav? Honestly, five minutes with a decent analogue map (which gives you much more than most sat nav maps ) and you'll be right . But just for you , A68 to Carter Bar , turn L after half mile and you can explore lovely roads for hours .... Don't tell anyone I sent you ...
Good for you. I find it dead easy to look at a decent analogue map in the comfort of my home, plan a route and up load it on to my Satnav. I've done trips in the past that others have planned (or rather not planned), spent too much time looking at maps on the side of the road, no one knows where they are going or where they would like to go. Thanks for the tip, I'll bare it in mind.
Thanks for all the info everyone. We only have 4 days of riding, so this is going to take up the middle 2 days and I'll plan a route for the journey too and from. I'm sure there are loads of good roads that are not on this map, but in 2 days I'm not going to be able to explore every corner of Northumberland. I would imagine this route has been designed to take in some tourist attractions and not just good driving roads and that's all I wanted to know really. Are they fun roads or just roads designed to get you from one tourist attraction to the next as quickly as possible?
I know a few of you say I should ditch the satnav and explore, but I've done a few rides like that before and found it a bit frustrating. People didn't know where they want to go or how to get there. Every 20-30 mins they would have to stop to looks at a map and often you would end up riding on the same roads you had been on earlier in the day. I prefer to plan a route before hand now, you don't have to stick to it if you don't want to, but at least I know there is a days worth of roads ahead of me, with a hotel at the end and you can do as much or as little of that route as you fancy. So even if I didn't follow this route, I would still plan my own route before leaving home.
We are heading up there at the end of Sept, so I'll update this thread then.
Thank you.
I know a few of you say I should ditch the satnav and explore, but I've done a few rides like that before and found it a bit frustrating. People didn't know where they want to go or how to get there. Every 20-30 mins they would have to stop to looks at a map and often you would end up riding on the same roads you had been on earlier in the day. I prefer to plan a route before hand now, you don't have to stick to it if you don't want to, but at least I know there is a days worth of roads ahead of me, with a hotel at the end and you can do as much or as little of that route as you fancy. So even if I didn't follow this route, I would still plan my own route before leaving home.
We are heading up there at the end of Sept, so I'll update this thread then.
Thank you.
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