FNRttC syndication

[User482]

Carlisle to Newcastle would be a good route.........but I'm not going to be able to set it up for next year.

There is, by the way, only one halfway point that is halfway (if you see what I mean) unless you dip down to the A69 and go in to Corbridge - not, itself a bad thing, because the town is really pretty

This route provides the chance to ride through Once Brewed and Twice Brewed...

 

[dellzeqq]

This route provides the chance to ride through Once Brewed and Twice Brewed...

that's the very one!

 

[clarion]

There's always the enchanting possibility of starting somewhere quite close to the sea, then not quite getting to it for a while. Middlesborough to the Yorkshire coast springs to mind, as does Newcastle (on a river of course) northwards out of the cack into the beauty of Northumberland.

Not sure about the getting home bits for either of those, partly because it rather depends where you wish to make whatever the opposite of landfall is.

 

[Tompy]

There's always the enchanting possibility of starting somewhere quite close to the sea, then not quite getting to it for a while. Middlesborough to the Yorkshire coast springs to mind, as does Newcastle (on a river of course) northwards out of the cack into the beauty of Northumberland.

Not sure about the getting home bits for either of those, partly because it rather depends where you wish to make whatever the opposite of landfall is.

I thought that too of Newcastle to the coast via Northumberland. Two problems though: a midway cafe, and Blyth.

 

[TimO]

You can cycle through the Quensway tunnel after 8.00pm. They say no cycling through the Kingsway tunnel but if you were escorted, which appears to cost £15, they might allow it. Anyway it seems doable, whether the rest is, is another matter.

I was looking at the map wondering whether a Birmingham to Liverpool via the Wirral (and the Tunnel) was a possibility, but I think you have to get to the tunnel before 7am on a Saturday to be allowed to cycle through, and with a ride of that distance, I suspect that would be challenging, other than as part of the Ultra-Speedy category of FNRttC.

 

[mmmmartin]

I was looking at the map wondering whether a Birmingham to Liverpool via the Wirral (and the Tunnel) was a possibility, but I think you have to get to the tunnel before 7am on a Saturday to be allowed to cycle through, and with a ride of that distance, I suspect that would be challenging, other than as part of the Ultra-Speedy category of FNRttC.

Why not do it the other way round?

 

[Theseus]

Why not do it the other way round?

Because then it would not be a FNRttC.

 

[Crackle]

I was looking at the map wondering whether a Birmingham to Liverpool via the Wirral (and the Tunnel) was a possibility, but I think you have to get to the tunnel before 7am on a Saturday to be allowed to cycle through, and with a ride of that distance, I suspect that would be challenging, other than as part of the Ultra-Speedy category of FNRttC.

Yes but you won't need the tunnel in the morning, you can take the Seacombe ferry, a much, much better way to arrive in Liverpool. In fact you can use the trains. All the underground trains take bikes, two slots per carriage.

 

[Sketchley]

I have a particular fondness for Camber Sands, unfortunately no train station.

 

[growingvegetables]

There's always the enchanting possibility of starting somewhere quite close to the sea, then not quite getting to it for a while. Middlesborough to the Yorkshire coast springs to mind, as does Newcastle (on a river of course) northwards out of the cack into the beauty of Northumberland.

Not sure about the getting home bits for either of those, partly because it rather depends where you wish to make whatever the opposite of landfall is.

I was thinking the same

- Northallerton (or Darlington? Hmmm); good connections from London

- to Whitby (probably 50 miles? Passes Little Fryup and Great Fryup - but 4 trains a day to Middlesborough)


- so on to Scarborough (20 miles along the bike route - runs along a reclaimed railway line down the coast most of the way); good connections through to York for London and everywhere, or through Hull for London and the south?

 

[mcshroom]

I seem to have missed this thread

Carlisle (or Penrith) to Newcastle would make a decent ride of about 60-65 miles, but there are not that many places between the two. I'm actually looking at riding Carlisle to Newcastle this weekend, but probably dropping off of the Military Road into Haltwhistle (centre of Britain ) then on to Bardon Mill, Fourstones and Chollerford to meet back up with the Military road. This gives a few more fuelling options than the road over the top. There is also a railway line all the way along the bottom of that valley so there's plenty of bailing out points.

Another option from Haltwhistle is to ride to Bardon Mill then straight up Fairways past Vindolanda to the Military road near Twice Brewed. It's a bugger of a hill (deserving of the double arrows) but not massively long, and the decent following is long straight and, if the sun has peeped over the horizon by then, very scenic

Riding along the river front in Newcastle gives some nice views with all the bridges, but is not coastal. To get to the coast you'd need to go to North Shields or Tynemouth, which is about another 10 miles (and the same back to the station afterwards)

I was thinking the same

- Northallerton (or Darlington? Hmmm); good connections from London

- to Whitby (probably 50 miles? Passes Little Fryup and Great Fryup - but 4 trains a day to Middlesborough)


- so on to Scarborough (20 miles along the bike route - runs along a reclaimed railway line down the coast most of the way); good connections through to York for London and everywhere, or through Hull for London and the south?

We're off on a night Halloween ride from York to Whitby on the 4th November if you're interested

 

[growingvegetables]

We're off on a night Halloween ride from York to Whitby on the 4th November if you're interested

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