Where's the longest continuous freewheel in Britain?

[Serge]

I was thinking the same, or descending off the Wold's towards Driffield - long, long descents but would you be going fast enough to coast up the up bits?



A good idea but you'd have to stop every 500 yards for anglers to shift their tackle...

To be fair, they shouldn't have their tackle out in public, it's obscene.

 

[Edgy Dee]

When did it move to Wales?

I'm thinking there must be quite a few long pass descents in Scotland - including Mennock. I traversed both the Beef Tub and Dalveen passes last month, and didn't turn a pedal for about half a day each time.

Edit: Just checked - Dalveen is 11 miles continuous heading south west.

 

[Grant Fondo]

All of East Anglia with a following wind?

 

[MikeG]

When did it move to Wales?

Someone offered it haggis, so it buggered off quick.

 

[simonali]

There's a really wide one in this thread...

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/shaft-drive.238130/

 

[Tin Pot]

All of East Anglia with a following wind?

Not sure you’d need the wind.

If you’re on the border headed towards Norwich, I’m pretty sure you’re thinking “<sigh> It’s all downhill from here.”

 

[HLaB]

I don't know where the longest continuous descent is but my longest continuous free wheel was 5miles from somewhere up at the Carron Bridge Reservoir into Stirling. Maybe somewhere round here

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yadd Moss at around 22km?

 

[Cuchilo]

Richmond park is 6.6 miles on the roads . I bet i can free wheel around that behind a twat driving a car and looking at the sky for the record free wheel .

 

[nickyboy]

Crag Vale has got to be the one.

Long Hill Buxton to Whaley Bridge can be freewheeled despite a short uphill stretch but it isn't as long

Cat and Fiddle to Macclesfield is longer but there is an uphill bit you can't freewheel up

Woodhead Pass would be interesting with a really strong Easterly. I've got a feeling you could maybe freewheel it all the way to Tintwistle but there is a ramp there which will stop progress

 

[classic33]

Bealach Na Ba, has come up in a few places at around Nine miles.

 

[Banjo]

Gospel Pass southward to Abergavenny seems to go downward 25kms to Abergavenny but there may be small rises you coast up and over so I wouldnt bet a week's pay on it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cragg Vale is not even close

 

[ColinJ]

The Cragg Vale hill is only claimed as ...

1. The longest 'continuous' gradient, so there may well be longer descents with a bit of uphill in them. As long as you could freewheel over the lumps then they could trump Cragg Vale.
2. And that is in ENGLAND, so there may well be longer continuous descents elsewhere in Britain.

As for Great Dun Fell ...

There is a potentially troublesome 0.5 km of flat early on but you could get up to high speed before it so if you didn't brake and went very aero I reckon you could freewheel beyond that on a bike with decent wheel bearings and tyres. I think there is at least one gate so you'd have to have someone holding it/them open for you. That would get you down to about 7.5 km. The problems beyond that are 4 or 5 bends/junctions, the villages of Knock and Long Marton, and the gradient easing right back. Maybe on an ideal run you could manage 12.8 km (8 miles)?

 

[User6179]

I don't know where the longest continuous descent is but my longest continuous free wheel was 5miles from somewhere up at the Carron Bridge Reservoir into Stirling. Maybe somewhere round here

The long line , it has a flat an uphill bit about halfway between loch coulter and bannockburn.

Edit- Couldn't see your link yesterday, that's The Tops to Denny , about 3.3 miles