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Anyone have any recent experience of this? I can find a couple of blogs but nothing more recent than 2015. Is it a decent ride?
I haven't watched the whole of the video above. Over the years I've ridden it between Liverpool and Blackburn but never in one go. I've walked a few sections beyond Blackburn to the Skipton area.Anyone have any recent experience of this? I can find a couple of blogs but nothing more recent than 2015. Is it a decent ride?
The surface is very, very variable. Some areas are excellent such as those you mention above. I've walked a lot of this but can't recall exactly where. Certainly Gargrave, Skipton and around Saltaire.As @KnittyNorah says OP you will have to be more specific.
There's a nice surfaced bit between Gargrave and Skipton, and Silsden to Leeds is generally good.
A cyclist I got nattering to near Gargrave very recently said that Skipton straight through to Leeds was fine in dry weather.
Last time I rode out of Blackburn towards Leeds the first bit (only bit I rode) was earth - fine in good weather, imagine would be muddy otherwise.
Look forward to hearing about your summer trip @PaulSB - surface reports etc - as they do seem to be slowly improving it in bits.
sorry, wasnt specific. Should have said “all of it”. Thinking of a loop and using the full length to join up. Total plan Staffordshire to the Wirral then to Leeds and down via Newark to Nottingham and Derby back to StaffordshireAs @KnittyNorah says OP you will have to be more specific.
That’s not a problem. We’re definitely fair weather cyclists, so this is a summer project, out of school holidaysWait for the weather to dry the tow paths up a bit - they are very wet and boggy at the moment - loads better two years ago as it had been quite dry, but we've had a wet winter. We need a few weeks of dry-ish weather and some breeze to dry them out.
Some going doing Leeds Liverpool in a day - saw the gut took nearly 14 hours. That's a fair old battering to the body.
more interesting than the Bridgewater for sure I'd say.I might try a section of this when the weather warms up and the paths dry out
My wife's son and his family live near there so I could go for a visit in the car and leave the car there - canal isn;t too far away
Should get up to 60 miles from the battery if I am careful in the summer and it would make a change from my normal rides on the bridgewater canal