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hippy
I don't have any clear idea really. My long held aspiration has been to run it as a multi day ultra, but I'm off running for the medium term and so my thinking switched to riding it. You are right that it is a walking trail (there is a road cycling route too) but I did see a couple of YouTube videos suggesting people had cycled at least parts of it and so I assumed that it would be ok?
The slight difficulty is that I'd be sort of starting from scratch. The attraction is that part of my family is from the village at the exact halfway point and my dad's front door literally opens onto the trail, so I have some level of emotional connection. The downside is that I don't even own a mountain bike, I've never done a multi day bike packing thing, and with a 2yr old, I don't have time to train 😀. Hence that I was hoping to find someone who had done it previously to maybe give me some advice (or talk me out of it!).
If it all goes to pot I might revert to the road version but, frankly, traffic puts me off the idea of long distance road rides at the moment.
Edit: page 1 of the FAQ says it's legal to ride but difficult.