London to Brighton Cycle for Haiti

Hi

The London to Brighton is a good ride, my flatmate and I did it last year. I would advise you keep on the smaller roads, there are a coupe of prefered routes but most go over ditchling beacon, if you are fixed then you may need to walk up - also there are some fairly long hills to go down, I would't want to do it on a small gear and I'd be careful if you are breakless tho I rode with one of the couriers who was doing it brakeless.

As far as mountain bikes are concerned I would have thought they should be able to keep up as they can coast down the hills and will find it easier going up, even if they will have to work on the flat,
Tell them to pump their tyres up though.

Chris

Yeah sure, the more the merrier!

Bear in mind the oldest so far will be 18 and youngest 15 ;)
None of us are exceptionally fit either and we will be going at the pace of the slowest people...we aim to average about 10 mph inclusive of breaks, photo stops, etc.
I doubt we'll get lost, we have an experienced navigator (guided us through Wales on our Duke of Edinburgh trip) and GPS.

There's been some interest at school as well from those wanting to do it on mountain bikes - should I advise against that?

The death toll is up to 150,000 so much help is needed as possible.
So if you decide to come, please help spread the word!