Rides you've planned but haven't done

[Shut Up Legs]

I have a To-do list of rides I've planned but haven't done yet. One in particular I've been trying to psyche myself into doing. I'm pretty fit in recent years, and my weight's lower than it was about 20 years ago, so I'm thinking I'll try the following ride during my upcoming Summer holidays:

http://www.mytrails.com.au/trails.php?tid=1006633

If you can't access that page for any reason, I'll describe it:

• distance at least 270km (168mls), perhaps a bit more, which is about 20km more than my previous longest distance for a single ride.
• elevation gain probably about 4000m (13,115ft) or more. The page says about 3700m, but I think it's underestimating it.
• at the end of the outbound leg is a hors categorie climb, Mt Baw Baw, considered one of Australia's toughest mountain climbs. I've done it once before, but from Icy Creek, a very small town only 35km from the summit of the mountain, so it was on relatively fresh legs. On the other hand, I weighed about 7kg more then than I do now, so that counts in my favour.
  
• the scenery there and back is nothing short of spectacular, with lots of forest and an endless succession of rolling hills. I've ridden large bits of it, but never the whole route.

I'm thinking I'll get up at stupid o'clock (probably about 3:30am), leave at 4:30am, and see how I go. There's a town called Tanjil Bren about 16.5km from the mountain summit, so if I don't quite feel up to the summit, I can turn around there after lunch, and the round trip will be about 237km (but still with lots of climbing and lovely scenery).

I've browsed the route using Google StreetView several times, thinking "one day!...".

 

[Edwardoka]

Well, now you have to do it, as you've publicly said you would. No backing out now

 

[Brandane]

Do you mean REALLY planned, or just thought about?
If the latter, then:
LEJOG/JOGLE.
Several different C2C's.
Cherbourg to Monte Carlo.
Trans Canada.

If the former, then none. If I get as far as the serious planning stage then I think I have actually ended up doing them. Possibly not as ambitious as the above, but I have done The Way of the Roses, Bordeaux to the channel, and a Scottish C2C from Largs to Berwick on Tweed. I have an on-going plan to ride from the lighthouse at the Mull of Galloway to John o' Groats, but jigsaw style rather than doing it all in one trip. I have done it as far as Calvine in Perthshire now (still the northern section to do!).

BTW, the link in the OP now says "this trail is no longer available".

 

[classic33]

From the East Coast of Ireland to the Northwest Coast, via Trim or Navan, Longford and Carrick on Shannon. Some changes now required to the route due to motorways being built.
Done the shorter route across & then down from Mayo to Clare.

 

[ColinJ]

The West Yorkshire Cycle Route in one day. About 250 km (155 miles) with over 4,000 m of climbing, some very steep.

A route that I devised from Scarborough to Blackpool in one day. About the same distance, but with a bit less climbing.

 

[DCLane]

Like @ColinJ - the West Yorkshire Cycle Route in a day. It was planned for early July this year but an Achilles injury put paid to that so I could save it for PBP.

Also in 2012 I planned both the Way of the Roses and also the Trans-Pennine Trail. Injury that year and a lack of spare time since has meant they are still to be done.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

BTW, the link in the OP now says "this trail is no longer available".

@Brandane (or anyone else?), would you mind trying it again? I've shared it (I'd forgotten it was still marked as private).

 

[Dogtrousers]

@Shut Up Legs

Link is visible ok now

 

[classic33]

@Brandane (or anyone else?), would you mind trying it again? I've shared it (I'd forgotten it was still marked as private).

Working now.

 

[growingvegetables]

Like Brandane.

Plans (as in "One day I will ...") LEJoG, W Yorks Cycle Route, coast-to-coasts.

Planned (as in ... just about set to go) doing a bike version of this http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Stanza-Stones-Trail-Guide.pdf - yup, I know it's odd. But I like odd stones on moors, even it means a bit of walking, or even ........ carrying the bike over really rough bits.

 

[Edwardoka]

Two come to mind for me.

- A day ride from Playa de las Américas to Cañadas del Teide on Tenerife (the longest climb in Europe, I got less than halfway up it last time )
- A slightly more ambitious round-Europe tour encompassing Nordkapp in Norway, Porto in Portugal, the southernmost tip of Iberia and Istanbul in Turkey. But that's purely in the realm of speculative fiction at this stage (and has been for 10+ years)

 

[hedder2212]

A few but never go beyond a few local rides

Keep saying ill do Rhyl, north wales - Walsall via canals starting in chester coming all the way to Wolverhampton and then local back streets from Wolverhampton into Walsall. Google maps says its 102 miles. Never done it because fitness isn't up to scratch etc etc etc planned it all out, printed off maps, checked train ticket prices etc etc just never did it.

Snake pass - done it loads of times on the motorbike but never by bicycle. One I keep saying ill do but never end up doing.

And a ride around up Long Mynd. Again done it on the motorbike but never by bicycle.

 

[classic33]

Like Brandane.

Plans (as in "One day I will ...") LEJoG, W Yorks Cycle Route, coast-to-coasts.

Planned (as in ... just about set to go) doing a bike version of this http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Stanza-Stones-Trail-Guide.pdf - yup, I know it's odd. But I like odd stones on moors, even it means a bit of walking, or even ........ carrying the bike over really rough bits.

"The Twelve Disciples"!!

 

[slowmotion]

I've never ridden more than 82 miles in one go but I plan a few for the near future. Looking down every mile of a new route on StreetView is a really good idea. It saves getting the map out if you have to turn off at a significant, memorable landmark.

 

[raleighnut]

Prior to me breaking my Femur I was planning to do LeJoG completely unsupported (i.e. leave home, cycle to Lands End, then to John 'O'Groats and then back home) to the point where I'd sorted out all the kit needed and taken it out a few times on shakedown runs (One a hundred miler run up to mums in Knutsford from Leicester and then back by a different route avoiding the 'Cat and Fiddle' out of Macclesfield as that is hard enough unladen)
Sadly nearly 2 years later my left leg is still only at about 30% strength of what it was before (and still very painful) so I may never get the chance but who knows, I'd still love to do it.