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late-august/september - we rode c.60-70 miles per day. this was our first time touring on gravel and that was too many miles, especially with the surfaces and elevation. I would go for c.35-40 miles per day next time I think (especially with the gravel.) I did a couple of days north of glasgow too (solo) and rode c.90 miles on one of those - I'm still living with some of the effects of the shoulder injury I got from that ride three years later : /
does have some amazing sections on the FLT
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I just had a look and we did 92k/day average on the ATM route. That was pretty comfortable with a fair bit of the usual walking, stopping for pics, stopping for food, laying in a tent coz it's pissing down, chilling at places that sold beer and working with limited daylight.
For a tour I wouldn't want to do much longer but if there was more daylight, then I guess we could push it out a bit to more like 120k/day so it becomes a 10 day ride, leaving some time in a 2 week block to get to/from.Could use the limited days I have left this year and add them to xmas and do a very cold version of it... hmm...
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When did you ride it and how much were you getting done each day? We managed to drop a day or more off the ATM's schedule because we had some nice days that let us ride longer, but we were still limited by the light (no point touring/sightseeing in the dark!).
If we did it in summer we could probably do it in half the time if pushed. Faultline is 3x longer though so much more scope for fatigue and breaking stuff. Mind you, we could cut the middle section we've already done and swap it for road or something else that might be more direct or even jump it with trains. In summer, trains would be a pain though.
River crossings out of season won't work. We had to detour the ATM one. We crossed some pretty crazy streams on the ride into Ossian - they were flowing hard with all the rain.