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Nice one, @santino and I did that last year (and the return as well in 48hr total, both directions at 24hr each way with a night's rest in Paris). It was boiling hot - the best parts were overnight and in the evening and early morning when the July sun wasn't imposing. That Newhaven/Dieppe ferry is okay, I didn't manage any sleep though. Rimtape?!
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Did London to Paris, ferrying between Newhaven and Dieppe. Started at 2pm on Friday, ended at 5pm on Saturday.
Nice and sunny solo ride to Newhaven, 2.5 hours of sleep and then of to Paris at 4am. Good teamwork against headwinds with a fellow cyclist for a bit more than half, then rode with friends coming from Paris to meet me. Rythm became admittedly a bit more erratic from there on (had to divert to decathlon to fetch rimtape for one of them...) but who cares :)
Riding at night and experiencing daybreak is still awesome.
All in all I guess over 300 km (phone was glitchy and missed a chunk on each day).
Day one: https://www.strava.com/activities/526652076
Day two: https://www.strava.com/activities/527393937
10/10 would ride again.