1 way 100Miles - Train out from Reading or Didcot Ride back
Discussion
Got Monday off and want to do 100mile road ride or 60mile MTB, for a change I'd like to go somewhere new. I can hop on the train at Didcot or Reading easily enough, so train out from either where would you go to then ride home, being between Reading and Didcot. Bath Spa looks a good option, under an hour out on the train. Southampton was another choice but longer to get too. I've done Chippenham back on the Ridgeway before in the MTB really enjoyed it but would prefer somewhere new.
Ooh!
This has got me thinking. So I used the Googlemaps routeplanner feature, and after quite a bit of 'jiggling' and modifying the route as much as Google will allow, I have discovered that my mother's house is exactly 200 miles from mine ('twas further than that at first, but I tweeked the route to be a bit more 'direct').
Now all I have to do is persuade myself that 200 miles in a day is doable (I'm thinking somewhere between 14 and 18 hours?) and then work on the wife to see if she'll even consider the idea. I'm not in her 'good books' right now, as yesterday I went out "for a couple of hours on the bike, dear". Nearly 7 (elapsed time) hours, and 85 miles later, I arrived back to a frown and a "your baked potato is in the oven - and has been for more than two hours".
This has got me thinking. So I used the Googlemaps routeplanner feature, and after quite a bit of 'jiggling' and modifying the route as much as Google will allow, I have discovered that my mother's house is exactly 200 miles from mine ('twas further than that at first, but I tweeked the route to be a bit more 'direct').
Now all I have to do is persuade myself that 200 miles in a day is doable (I'm thinking somewhere between 14 and 18 hours?) and then work on the wife to see if she'll even consider the idea. I'm not in her 'good books' right now, as yesterday I went out "for a couple of hours on the bike, dear". Nearly 7 (elapsed time) hours, and 85 miles later, I arrived back to a frown and a "your baked potato is in the oven - and has been for more than two hours".
I know i'm late to this topic but i was just going to add to watch the wind direction!
Mrs M was working about 100miles due south of home so last Friday i decided to see how long it would take me to get there with a cut off time of 6hours, seemed easy enough.
But the wind was blowing North at 15 gusting 20kts in the morning and 20 gusting 25kts in the afternoon.
Mrs M was working about 100miles due south of home so last Friday i decided to see how long it would take me to get there with a cut off time of 6hours, seemed easy enough.
But the wind was blowing North at 15 gusting 20kts in the morning and 20 gusting 25kts in the afternoon.
Herman Toothrot said:
In the end last week I chucked the bike in the car and went to Cwmcarn instead and ride all the XC trails that were open and the original DH track.
Tomorrow I plan on train to Bath and ride back on road.
That's a nice ride, I have done it a couple of times in both direction. Toughest bit is the few miles out of Bath - all uphill!, then more or less all downhill all the way back (apart from a small section just outside Malborough). A4 beyond Newbury isn't nice so I have dropped South and cris-crossed the country roads back to Binfield.Tomorrow I plan on train to Bath and ride back on road.
Didn't make the route a 100miles, ended up 137km too much neck ache and a headwind the whole way ~13knots. Bath to home, did the Kennet & Avon Canal path out of Bath, not recommended on a road bike with 110psi properly, un-comfortable start to the ride but did rescue a stranded cyclist who'd run out of patches after 3 punctures so good job for him I choose that way.
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