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They already have mate!When are calendar events resuming...?
# apologies if this has been asked/answered before....
The A46 from Leicester is now a dual carriage way I would not cycle on . You can almost run along it on the old A46 I would check your route . There are much better route Leicester to LincolnCrazy idea, but it'd tempting to DIY this one for the Spring Bank Holiday.
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Start at Exeter, controls at Axminster (45 km), Lincoln (385 km), Humber Bridge (443 km), finish at York.
The route is pretty simple - Fosse Way, then Ermine St.
Departing at 6am on the Saturday would mean hitting the A303 section at before 10am, Bath at around lunchtime. The A429 around Cirencester is 160 km in, so around 4pm. Leicester is the 300 km mark, so before 3am on Sunday. It's then an early morning dash up the A46 to the 2nd control, Lincoln, 9am on Sunday. Should be a decently quiet DC dash. The A15, before minor roads to the Humber bridge, around lunchtime, then finishing in York at 5pm.
I'm sure there's a more scenic route, but charging across the country in the wheel ruts of roman chariots is kind of my idea of fun. And I think the slow audax timings are pretty ideal traffic wise.
While I saw that, and do use sections, e.g. the section by Bingham is highly inconvenient when heading northbound. Through Newark, easy.
I definitely am considering doing it as more of a tour, but the Fosse Way is of particular personal importance as both my parents lived on it (at different points, then the same point) for a long time.Oddly enough that route is extremely similar to my summer tour in planning. Except my route is a bit more wiggly, and I plan to take 5 days
(I'll be accompanying a friend along part of his LeJoG and our route is dictated by the locations of friends' houses).
Hence an unwillingness to deviate, but instead to time the worst sections of it as not to be busy.
Crazy idea, but it'd tempting to DIY this one for the Spring Bank Holiday.
View attachment 583744
Start at Exeter, controls at Axminster (45 km), Lincoln (385 km), Humber Bridge (443 km), finish at York.
The route is pretty simple - Fosse Way, then Ermine St.
Departing at 6am on the Saturday would mean hitting the A303 section at before 10am, Bath at around lunchtime. The A429 around Cirencester is 160 km in, so around 4pm. Leicester is the 300 km mark, so before 3am on Sunday. It's then an early morning dash up the A46 to the 2nd control, Lincoln, 9am on Sunday. Should be a decently quiet DC dash. The A15, before minor roads to the Humber bridge, around lunchtime, then finishing in York at 5pm.
I'm sure there's a more scenic route, but charging across the country in the wheel ruts of roman chariots is kind of my idea of fun. And I think the slow audax timings are pretty ideal traffic wise.
I quite like cycling to get somewhere, so a one way epic should be right up my street, and arrow straight means I'm getting the quickest route
I am aware of that, but if it's still closed by the Spring Bank Holiday, I'll view it as even more of a pisstake than it already is, and just use the carriageway. Play the out of the loop southerner who's ridden 250 miles card if necessary.
It is still a 40 mile detour to keep to the Roman route while avoiding the bridge, after all.
