The Fridays Tour de Normandie 2015

[rvw]

@rvw - where am I staying?

Ibis La Glacerie (you should have the email confirmation for this, I think)
Hotel le Bayeux
Mercure Honfleur
Interhotel de la Plage Dieppe

Remind me to give you all the confirmations! I'm sorry to be missing this but family duties are inescapable...

 

[StuAff]

The reason all the Google Maps links are based on walking directions suddenly becomes clear....
Carbon fat bikes, anyone?

 

[Gordon P]

in memory of @Gordon P

You do not get rid of me that easily, but consider it practice for bouts to come

 

[mmmmartin]

There's some recce'ing to be done on Friday morning, Martin, and since it involves off-roading, your name is firmly in the frame.

I would gladly follow you unto the very gates of hell, as you know.

*digs out those detailed maps of the Cherbourg area*
*worries*

 

[srw]

I would gladly follow you unto the very gates of hell, as you know.

*digs out those detailed maps of the Cherbourg area*
*worries*

There are some rather spiffing voies vertes with the sort of sandy packed surface that works far better than anyone has a right to expect. But since they go in diametrically the wrong direction to get to Bayeux I'm as mystified as you.

Hold on - if memory serves there's a cut around the Brix hill which someone found. But again, if we're starting off avec Madame de Brix a cut around the hill is singularly useless.

 

[mmmmartin]

My current plan is to remain sober enough on the Friday eve to assist with riders getting to La Glacerie, thereafter to keep up with @Gordon P on the Calvados front until I pass out. Does this sound reasonable?

 

[dellzeqq]

I shall explain. A few miles south of Brix we have a choice. We can go over half a mile of gravel on the Route de la Rade or take to the main highway, going on at one junction and taking the next off-ramp.

Susie and have ridden both -- the gravel was passable in September, but, then again, it had been dry for a while. So...we will inspect the path, see if it is okish, and make up our minds accordingly.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/B...0x480c833159ef1217:0x10e6d799d4170a07!1m0!3e2

 

[Flying Dodo]

Sorry for the delay, but I've finally got around to going over the gpx files.

Bear in mind they don't account of any possible excursions such as above, and are based on whatever the new version of Google maps thought Simon had in mind, so hopefully they line up ok.

Day 1 Brix to Bayeux - 65 miles, 2,200 ft. of climbing, quite flat really.
Day 2 Bayeux to Honfleur - 59 miles, 2,350 ft. of climbing, couple of big hills (one of which is a tad steep, so don't blame me but it's got a nice view at the top).
Day 3 Honfleur to Dieppe - 70 miles, 3,257 ft. of climbing, bit of a drag up to a plateau, but nothing steeper than 7.8%, and I can see a lovely descent like Slugwash Lane, only longer with a thatched cottage thrown in.

You'll love it.

 

[StuAff]

Sorry for the delay, but I've finally got around to going over the gpx files.

Bear in mind they don't account of any possible excursions such as above, and are based on whatever the new version of Google maps thought Simon had in mind, so hopefully they line up ok.

Day 1 Brix to Bayeux - 65 miles, 2,200 ft. of climbing, quite flat really.
Day 2 Bayeux to Honfleur - 59 miles, 2,350 ft. of climbing, couple of big hills (one of which is a tad steep, so don't blame me but it's got a nice view at the top).
Day 3 Honfleur to Dieppe - 70 miles, 3,257 ft. of climbing, bit of a drag up to a plateau, but nothing steeper than 7.8%, and I can see a lovely descent like Slugwash Lane, only longer with a thatched cottage thrown in.

You'll love it.

Good lord, that's a lot of climbing…compared to what I have planned for a couple of weeks time (Elevation charts flatter than a pancake)

 

[srw]

Less hilly than Brighton - 3000 ft of climbing in 60 miles.
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1772310

I'll be joining you walking at the back on the hills, if last weekend was anything to go by.

 

[StuAff]

Worry not. I meant a lot of climbing only in relative terms....

 

[User482]

Sorry for the delay, but I've finally got around to going over the gpx files.

Bear in mind they don't account of any possible excursions such as above, and are based on whatever the new version of Google maps thought Simon had in mind, so hopefully they line up ok.

Day 1 Brix to Bayeux - 65 miles, 2,200 ft. of climbing, quite flat really.
Day 2 Bayeux to Honfleur - 59 miles, 2,350 ft. of climbing, couple of big hills (one of which is a tad steep, so don't blame me but it's got a nice view at the top).
Day 3 Honfleur to Dieppe - 70 miles, 3,257 ft. of climbing, bit of a drag up to a plateau, but nothing steeper than 7.8%, and I can see a lovely descent like Slugwash Lane, only longer with a thatched cottage thrown in.

You'll love it.

Thanks FD, much appreciated.

 

[StuAff]

How do I get them from ridewithgps as GPX files? Do I have to sign up to ridewithgps?

Export tab on each page. Best option is probably the GPX track rather than route (when I've used GPX routes from RWGPS my Garmin's always had issues with them. Crashing, mainly....).

 

[mmmmartin]

I have just realised that the strike the RMT have called might affect train travel from Newhaven when we get back.

Oh no! If only we had with us a method of transport that we could use instead.

 

[wanda2010]

Fingers crossed we are not stuck. Won't fancy a ride back to London on Tuesday evening.