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  • Yeah, I want to do the Chiltern Ridgeway thing with the missus but I don't think we're up for 350k round trip and she doesn't have enough bivvy kit/bikepacking bags to sleep out with me.

    I've got time off for a wedding that didn't happen so I was thinking about early weekday morning riding to Harrow & Wealdstone and taking train to Tring. 5:46->6:17 and that leaves a large chunk of the day to ride the route.

    Then work out how to get back - maybe a train from Marlborough. Nope just looked, no trains, so maybe ride 13mi to Swindon and then train back from there. 23:19 is the last train to Paddington, then ride back from Paddington.

  • Nope just looked, no trains, so maybe ride 13mi to Swindon and then train back from there. 23:19 is the last train to Paddington, then ride back from Paddington.

    It's 7 miles to Great Bedwyn from Marlborough, which has a station. Don't know what time the last train is, but it's a much shorter and more pleasant ride than to Swindon.

    Added: it's also less likely to be manned at that time of night. Swindon is a mainline station, with associated staffing levels, Bedwyn isn't.

  • Requires a change at Reading though which may or may not be worse than Swindon for restrictions. It's an option but I don't want to be 'that guy' on the train. So, back to the car it is. Fuck the planet.

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