Hi Guys, I'm new to this forum and I'm going to apologise straight away if there is a thread identical to this one, I just dont really know how to navigate around the forum yet.
So a few of my friends and I want to cycle around France in the Summer, all of us are pretty inexperienced at this kind of thing. We basically just want to go to a pretty flat piece of France (is such a thing?) and hop from campsite to campsite, covering anywhere between 30-50 miles each day. OR the other option is to find a campsite and go cycling each day, using the campsite as our base.
Now my friends all have relatively old road bikes, some have single speeds, some have road bikes with 5 gears and I'm worried these arent up to scratch or that they'll not take panniers and just use rucksacks - are panniers a definate must? Im pretty set on usuing them but i need some hard evidence/persuasion for them to invest in some instead of "just get them".
Also, are there any particular areas we should visit or base our trip around? we just want somewhere flat, pretty, with plenty of lakes/rivers to dip out feet in.
If anyone could offer some advice, some information, some websites to look at to help us plan where to go and where to book campites, what to take and what not to take, equipment recommendations - anything and everything would be amazing!
and if anyone has any blogs of their own tours, id love to read them!
Thanks for your time guys!
Hi Guys, I'm new to this forum and I'm going to apologise straight away if there is a thread identical to this one, I just dont really know how to navigate around the forum yet.
So a few of my friends and I want to cycle around France in the Summer, all of us are pretty inexperienced at this kind of thing. We basically just want to go to a pretty flat piece of France (is such a thing?) and hop from campsite to campsite, covering anywhere between 30-50 miles each day. OR the other option is to find a campsite and go cycling each day, using the campsite as our base.
Now my friends all have relatively old road bikes, some have single speeds, some have road bikes with 5 gears and I'm worried these arent up to scratch or that they'll not take panniers and just use rucksacks - are panniers a definate must? Im pretty set on usuing them but i need some hard evidence/persuasion for them to invest in some instead of "just get them".
Also, are there any particular areas we should visit or base our trip around? we just want somewhere flat, pretty, with plenty of lakes/rivers to dip out feet in.
If anyone could offer some advice, some information, some websites to look at to help us plan where to go and where to book campites, what to take and what not to take, equipment recommendations - anything and everything would be amazing!
and if anyone has any blogs of their own tours, id love to read them!
Thanks for your time guys!