Fixed wheel around the coast of Britain!

tricky woo

Me and a mate have started an epic touring trip around the coast of Britain, one week/end at a time, on our fixies. Two day trips down already (Kent is weird!), with a couple of weekender's and a week planned for the rest of the summer.

We are blogging the whole thing - http://fourwheelsbetter.wordpress.com/welcome/ - and welcome any thoughts on paths, pubs and pitfalls to avoid or take as we do our revolutions round this isle!

We are also welcome to anyone joining us on any legs - we have a few mates who promised (it was in a pub though!) to do some bits - and even a couple of offers of "support vehicles" for the long stretches.

It's somewhere between 4,500 and 5,500 miles, by the way!

daviddd

Wow - that sounds like hard work. Maybe one day I'll try a fixed, but I'm sure I won't like it!

tricky woo

Thanks David - your trips look pretty spectacular too!

Day two on there now - and what a day! Faversham to Ramsgate along the Viking Coastal Trail on a beautiful sunny May day.

Read all about it here - http://fourwheelsbetter.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/

Neil Fat man on a bike

Let me know when you get to the far North of Scotland !

Best of luck.
Me and a mate are gonna do Lands end to J o G via cape cornwall and cape wrath next may.

tricky woo

Day three up there now - Ramsgate to Folkestone, with badly behaving hubs, 400 foot climbs and some stunning Kent countryside. Our next trip will see us complete our first county! And I am now thinking we should just circumnavigate England, rather than tackle the Welsh and Scottish mountains! http://fourwheelsbetter.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/

tricky woo

It's back! Yes, we're back in the saddle for "Cycle around Britain Leg 2 - 2009". And yes, it was all a bit crap last year so we will, indeed, pick up the pace. And perhaps less beer.

50 miles a day to start - though we will see how we get on coz Mr Bear has been couriering in Brighton and I'm in training for a 100 mile sportive (the Cycling Plus Sportive at BikeRadar Live - NOT on a fixie though!)

To celebrate we've moved onto our own webspace (http://www.cyclearoundbritain.co.uk) and plan to do a decent weekend of it on the 20th March - Friday to Sunday.

As always, we are open for people to come join in - fixed or not.

Oh, and the early thoughts on the routes are:

Hove to Fareham http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2599751,
Fareham to Poole http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2599780,
Poole to Axminster http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2599789

Wish us luck!

tricky woo

Mr Bear has a friend on the Isle of White 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:-

Day 1 - Hove to Portsmouth (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2603930)

Day 2 - circuit of Isle of White http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2603939

Day 3 Ferry from Yarmouth to Lymington, then carry on to Weymouth http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2603953

It means missing a bit of the mainland coast - but doing a circuit of the Isle of White 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.)