The flattest route through Devon and Cornwall ...

[Landsurfer]

Having done LEJOG , and doing JOGLE next summer can anyone recommend the flattest route from Surton Cross to Lands End please... Mileage is not an issue just the flattest, easiest route ..... please ...
We .. ok I .... struggled heading north last year on the LEJOG ...

 

[graham bowers]

Where is Surton Cross pls? Doesn't come up in google maps, for instance.

 

[ColinJ]

Where is Surton Cross pls? Doesn't come up in google maps, for instance.

Sourton Cross does!

 

[Landsurfer]

Sourton Cross does!

oops .... EX20 4HT ........ actually ..... Pump and Pedal Pub ....

 

[mjr]

No takers? OK, I'll open with https://cycle.travel/map/journey/134797 which is based on https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=112068&p=1220385#p1220385 with a few tweaks like using the Camel Trail and picking longer but shallower climbs in a few places.

 

[Landsurfer]

No takers? OK, I'll open with https://cycle.travel/map/journey/134797 which is based on https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=112068&p=1220385#p1220385 with a few tweaks like using the Camel Trail and picking longer but shallower climbs in a few places.

Thats a good start when referenced against our LEJOG route ..... thank you ...

 

[mjr]

Thats a good start when referenced against our LEJOG route ..... thank you ...

Is there a final version of the LEJoG route handy?

No matter what else I tried, I could never get Sourton-LE below 2000m ascent and max 7.8%.

 

[Jerry Atrik]

The flattest route from Exeter I’ve done is up over longdown turn left at the bottom along the Teign valley to chudleigh Knighton .
Go along cycle path along A38 to Ashburton , Buckfastleigh and Ivybride where you cross over towards Ermington via Brixton to Plymouth and catch the ferry to Torpoint.
Follow the route to Looe then onto Fowey catching the Ferry .
Climb out of Fowey towards St Austell then onto Truro ,Penzance ,Lands End .
A rough sketch I’m afraid but I know how to cycle it better than I can explain it .
Still not flat but the flatest we’ve found from these parts .

 

[mjr]

The flattest route from Exeter [...]

The OP isn't starting from Exeter - but using cycle.travel from Sourton to Land's End with via points at Torpoint, Looe and Trengwainton Gardens (it picks Fowey itself from that) results in 2600m climbing and max 13% (from Exeter as recommended would be 3100m), so I think it's not as flat as the one based on the Wimps route (from Exeter would be 2600m max 9%, or a longer 3100m max 7%).

 

[Landsurfer]

The OP isn't starting from Exeter - but using cycle.travel from Sourton to Land's End with via points at Torpoint, Looe and Trengwainton Gardens (it picks Fowey itself from that) results in 2600m climbing and max 13% (from Exeter as recommended would be 3100m), so I think it's not as flat as the one based on the Wimps route (from Exeter would be 2600m max 9%, or a longer 3100m max 7%).

The reality check is that we WIMPS may have planned the flattest route ... northbound ! ... But southbound ? .... A couple of the WIMPS (me included) would happily do a JOGLE that was actually a JOGTT .... (John o' Groats, Taunton Town) ... but a JOGTL would be on my radar (John O Groats Taunton / Launceston) ...

 

[robgul]

If you are doing JOGLE I wouldn't be too worried about the hills as you'll be "match fit" by the time you get down south . . . . that was my experience having ridden JOGLE first and then LEJOG five years later - the initial hills out of Cornwall were tougher than riding them the other way with 800+ miles under the wheels.

Rob

 

[Fab Foodie]

oops .... EX20 4HT ........ actually ..... Pump and Pedal Pub ....

At the start of this thread I had no idea where Sourton was. When you put a postcode up, I thought, ‘Ah Devon’. Buggerme, by lunchtime I’d driven through it in the Motorhome travelling from Tavistock to Dawlish!
Small world....

 

[footloose crow]

My change to the suggested cycle.travel route would be to head up to the north coast from Illogan and take the B road that follows the cliffs to Hayle and then join the NCN route to Penzance as on the cycle.travel route. Good views, far better than trekking through the urban sprawl of Camborne -Pool-Redruth AND its flatter. Flat in places in fact.

 

[Landsurfer]

I regularly ride that route as our caravan is at Tolgus Mount. .... I'd be tempted to ride through Blackwater to Scorrier, then follow the coast to coast route down to Portreath ... I know there is a climb ... or walk .. out of Portreath but then your on the cliff roads and downhill to Penzance ... well mostly .....

 

[iateyoubutler]

Devon, flat?? Good luck with that