Fixies around the coast of Britain

New plans!

Mr Bear has a friend on the Isle of Man who is kindly putting us up so we are going to do a lap of the island too! New maps to reflect this - any local knowledge about busy roads to avoid welcome:-
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[SIZE=2]Day 1 - Hove to Portsmouth (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2603930)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Day 2 - circuit of Isle of Man (TT!) http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2603939 [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Day 3 Ferry from Yarmouth to Lymington, then carry on to Weymouth http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2603953 [/SIZE]

It means missing a bit of the mainland coast - but doing a circuit of the Isle of Man has to be done! Not that we will be doing all islands on the way round - that would be bonkers crazy mad.

(coz planning to cycle fixed around the coast of britain is completely and utterly a sane thing to do.)

And Miro - I take your point regarding Gmaps Pedo and MapMyRide - for route planning on a grander scale it just seems to be a hell of a lot quicker than the others.

Do you mean the Isle of Wight? (much nearer to Portsmouth!!)

Doh! Idiot that I am! Of course I do!

if you ever go down west i can give you some good places to go. ive done almost all of of cornwall and devon, and some of south wales on fixed. i highly recommend a gearing in the 60-67GI range as anything above that will probably kill you unless you are superman. i always aimed to do 80miles a day on 65gi and normally did it fairly comfortably.

ive thought about doing the whole coast of kent seeing as i partially live there, but im finding it hard to find the motivation as kent is mainly a skanky hole. rode through bex hill the other day, my god thats a depressing place, but not as bad as pikey paradise folkstone.

Yup, would have to agree that Kent is a bit, well, bleak. But it was an interesting ride, none-the-less, with some weird sights along the way. Most of it is on the Coastal route too - which was really lovely actually. Thanks gearing advice too - I think that has to be my next plan to start trying with different ratios. We will be down the west way soon - a week planned for early summer so hope to make a big bite of devon and cornwall.

Do you mean the Isle of Wight? (much nearer to Portsmouth!!)

Still blushing, actually, with embarrassment. That's why I need googlemap-based apps!

Is there a TT on the Isle of Wight?

if you ever go down west i can give you some good places to go. ive done almost all of of cornwall and devon, and some of south wales on fixed. i highly recommend a gearing in the 60-67GI range as anything above that will probably kill you unless you are superman. i always aimed to do 80miles a day on 65gi and normally did it fairly comfortably.

ive thought about doing the whole coast of kent seeing as i partially live there, but im finding it hard to find the motivation as kent is mainly a skanky hole. rode through bex hill the other day, my god thats a depressing place, but not as bad as pikey paradise folkstone.

I live in kent and it is not skanky bloody cheek!

Hi,

I'm going on a multiday trip from cologne to london this summer.
I write a blog about planning, route, gear, training.

http://www.cgnfixed.blogspot.com

joerg

Hi,

I'm going on a multiday trip from cologne to london this summer.
I write a blog about planning, route, gear, training.

http://www.cgnfixed.blogspot.com

joerg

Enjoy! We did our three days (Isle of Wight gots some hills, I tell ya!) weekend before last; stunning weather with a little stretch of road through the new forest which i consider to be the best bit of cycle road I have ever gone through. Felt like a F1 track! Our blog post will be up soon.

I will enjoy it.
Does anyone know a good route from either Dover or Ramsgate int Central London.
I plan to take the ferry from Oostende (Belgium) to Ramsgate, but I read somwhere on this forum, that they don't take bikes on board !?

if you ever go down west i can give you some good places to go. ive done almost all of of cornwall and devon, and some of south wales on fixed. i highly recommend a gearing in the 60-67GI range as anything above that will probably kill you unless you are superman. i always aimed to do 80miles a day on 65gi and normally did it fairly comfortably.

ive thought about doing the whole coast of kent seeing as i partially live there, but im finding it hard to find the motivation as kent is mainly a skanky hole. rode through bex hill the other day, my god thats a depressing place, but not as bad as pikey paradise folkstone.

I live in kent and it is not skanky bloody cheek!

He does have a point about Folkestone.

It's sell by date was around the end of the Victorian holiday resort era.

I will enjoy it.
Does anyone know a good route from either Dover or Ramsgate int Central London.
I plan to take the ferry from Oostende (Belgium) to Ramsgate, but I read somwhere on this forum, that they don't take bikes on board !?

The Tour de France route is on here somewhere, pretty sure that did Dover to London.

Ola! Yup, it's been a while but we are back on it! Late June will see us at Bournemouth for the next few days routes. And we've updated the website - www.cyclearoundbritain.co.uk (though give me some time to get it up to date!).

Reason for the break? Well, my 6 month old son has had something to do with it - but glad to be back in the saddle!.

Impressive! I'll check out your blog. well done!