A Double Coast to Coast Ride

[lowrider73]

It sounds a long time, but if it is 500 miles (which would surprise me - I would have guessed about 350-400 miles), then that is not so bad. 50 miles a day sounds reasonable if lowrider wants to explore a bit rather just knocking out the miles as quickly as possible.

It was a route, that I plotted on the memory map and added more miles and came to 500 miles. I have a fortnight's holiday to cover the double coast to coast and 10 days would be ideal and 50 mpd at that. I have another route, which is about 300 miles and that would take a week and a straightforward route. But the first one, is a one for exploring some of the dales.

Robin Hoods Bay.
Driffield.
York.
Malham
Kendal.
Kirkby Stephen.
Reeth.
Scawton.
Danby Wiske.
Home.

 

[ColinJ]

It was a route, that I plotted on the memory map and added more miles and came to 500 miles. I have a fortnight's holiday to cover the double coast to coast and 10 days would be ideal and 50 mpd at that. I have another route, which is about 300 miles and that would take a week and a straightforward route. But the first one, is a one for exploring some of the dales.

I've been to some of those places and they were very nice. I'll probably do a similar tour myself one day.

 

[ColinJ]

Right, you've got it planned ... now (as Vernon suggested above) you need to actually do it!

I am looking forward to reading your report next year. Make sure that you take lots of nice photographs!

 

[lowrider73]

Update on my double coast to coast route.
Robin Hoods Bay.
Hutton Cranswick.
York.
Appletreewick.
Silverdale.
Kirkby Stephen.
Bowes.
Bolton-on-Swale.
Scawton.
Ingleby Cross.

I've had rethink about the overnights, camping and these are the overnights.

 

[ColinJ]

I think that I am spotting a trend ...

(One that I recognise in myself!)

 

[vernon]

Too much planning. Too little action!

Try the Vernon patent planning method.

Pick a date and venue for the start.
Pick a date and venue for the end.
Leave home.
Go to the start.
Pedal towards the end at a rate of roughly: (distance between start and end)/(number of days allocated for the trip)
Go home.

There you go four years' worth of planning despatched in six lines.

What's happened to the double coast to coast?

 

[lowrider73]

What's happened to the double coast to coast?

The Coast to Coast walk was done in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Cleveland Way was done this year. I will get to do the double coast to coast with a twist.. Good news, is the route is finalized.

 

[ColinJ]

The Coast to Coast walk was done in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Cleveland Way was done this year. I will get to do the double coast to coast with a twist.. Good news, is the route is finalized.

Ah, well you didn't tell us that you have been busy doing all that walking ... it sounded like you were more into planning than doing!

 

[lowrider73]

Oh, it's a long story. What had happened, is on the coast to coast walk in 2007, I had to quit at Kirkby Stephen, due to a shot knee. Something, I took badly too. I did some cycle touring in 2008 around the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines and was planning to cycle the double coast to coast in 2009. But, I wanted to prove I could walk the coast to coast walk again and the idea of the double coast to coast bike ride was shelved and I became a coast to coast walking nut. But over the years, I yearned to do some cycle touring and do the double coast to coast and next year is the 20th anniversary of the double coast to coast, I first did in 1994. So, there was a lot planning going on over the last four years, something that was shelved until I logged back onto this forum after a long absent and that's sparked off the idea again. So, thanks to the Cycle Chat Forum

 

[andym]

Try the Vernon patent planning method.

Pick a date and venue for the start.
Pick a date and venue for the end.
Leave home.
Go to the start.
Pedal towards the end at a rate of roughly: (distance between start and end)/(number of days allocated for the trip)
Go home.

I'd slightly modify that 'make sure that the venue for the end is no more than x*d miles from the starting point (where d is the number of days and x is the amount of miles you can comfortably cycle in a day and then get up and do the same thing again the next morning).

Oh and a map marked up with likely campsites/hostels probably isn't a bad idea.

 

[Guidovdrm]

I rode the double C2C in 2009: Tynemouth - Whitehaven along Hadrian's Cycleway, and Whitehaven -Sunderland - Tynemouth along the Sea to Sea Cycle Route.
Some photos : http://picasaweb.google.com/guidovdrm/HadrianWallCycleWayCoastToCoastCycleWay?feat=directlink
Mind the Pennines crossing: long and steep hills, strong wind