Suggested route Ipswich - Pendeen, Penzance?

I am moving from Ipswich to Pendeen (between St Ives and Land's end) and also retiring next year may/june time. I am thinking about commemorating the event, and also move my bike, by cycling from Ipswich to Pendeen (few km north of Penzance).

I know the way by car and by train, but don't fancy the M25 and A303 on a bike and train seems a bit of a cop-out.

I am not looking for someone to provide me a detailed blow by blow route, but any broad brush suggestions, for or against particular routes/waypoints, or where to find on-line routes, would be appreciated.

May need to add a few teeth to sprocket also....

Peter

I have no advice re the route, but in addition to what you find here it might be worth having a quick search on the ctc forum. I think they have a whole section dedicated to route advice/experience.

Oh, and you should definitely do it, it sounds awesome. Good luck and god speed...

you could head past dunwich and follow the dunwich dynamo run into london.
there are a couple of routes out of london down to stonehenge way, all quiet roads and then just wiggle down the rest.

i find plotting a route backwards from your destination quite useful.

loads of quiet country lanes to be found, might be a bit of a wiggly route!

I am moving from Ipswich to Pendeen

Lucky you, my Colnago liked Pendeen:

On potential routes, I think skive and spybot are hiding their routes under bushels :)

As skive said the Dunwich Dynamo route would be a good start, you could then use some of spybot's M25 route, which is very nice, to navigate around London then link up with skive's route to Avebury route (also very nice). That would get you as far as Avebury anyway...

I'm doing London to Land's End and back in a couple of weeks, can give you route tips when I've done that. I can't at the moment, because I don't have a route. But I will at some point in the next 9 days. Hopefully.

This one is pretty nice from Colchester if you want to head into London, some great lanes. (You could avoid Maldon Road if you wanted, but it's a bit fiddly.) It's basically the annual forum ride but in reverse.

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thanks for providing the links fox.

Thanks for all that. Didn't go to ctc after going on a holiday/trip with them to Italy years ago and getting dressed down by the leader 'cause we had good maps and knew how to use them.

Links are useful, and previously unknown to me.

Hadn't thought about headwinds - should have realized since we have sailed from East Coast to Cornwall a few times, and it is up-hill!