Coast to coast by road

Redfred237
Redfred237 Posts: 42
edited January 2011 in Road beginners
Hi I'm thinking about doing a coast to coast ride later this year I've looked at the c2c site and a charity based ride but these seem to be on mixed roads & tracks and advise using a hybrid bike.
My question to you good people is this, Have any of you done a coast to coast ride by road only using a road bike with standard road 23mm tyres?
Are there any organised rides by road?
Advice on route by roads would be appreciated, Thanks.

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  • saunaboy
    saunaboy Posts: 116
    where would you be riding between?
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    FWIW I've done [near] Buckingham to Rhyll, all on roads, on 23c tyres and didn't have a problem. I don't see what the issue is tbh - you want to ride a road bike with road tyres on the roads between two places. Sounds easy enough - plot a decent route on Bikehike or similar and off you go.

    :)
  • saunaboy
    saunaboy Posts: 116
    I'm planning to do lake district - newcastle in a day in the summer. It's about 80 miles, either by Carlisle way (flat) or if I'm brave, over 750m Hartside pass in the Pennines.

    As previous poster says, easy enough to get sorted. Do you have an iPhone? There's an ordnance survey free UK road map on there that doesn't need phone signal. Not great scale so no tiny roads are on there but for planning long treks on B roads or larger it's great.
  • bianchimoon
    bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
    Redfred237 wrote:
    Hi I'm thinking about doing a coast to coast ride later this year I've looked at the c2c site and a charity based ride but these seem to be on mixed roads & tracks and advise using a hybrid bike.
    My question to you good people is this, Have any of you done a coast to coast ride by road only using a road bike with standard road 23mm tyres?
    Are there any organised rides by road?
    Advice on route by roads would be appreciated, Thanks.
    have done the C2C 3 times on roads using 3 different routes from St Bees all ending at Saltburn-by-Sea, prefer going through the yorkshire dales national park than on national C2C route, lots more options
    All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....
  • Redfred237
    Redfred237 Posts: 42
    saunaboy wrote:
    where would you be riding between?

    Hi I would like to ride From Whitehaven to Whitby , I realise that the normal destination is Newcastle or Sunderland.
  • kayakerchris
    kayakerchris Posts: 361
    WE did Whitehaven to Sunderland on road bikes with 23mm slick tyres. We used the Sustrans C2C map and plans. This gives a short bit out of Keswick on a cycle path and then a longer cycle path into Sunderland. We had no problems over the distance and had 2 punctures in total. We would probably not do the cycle paths bits again but it would be easy to lose them using one of the cycle planning websites.
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  • Redfred237
    Redfred237 Posts: 42
    Thanks Kayakerchris I'll have a look.
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    saunaboy wrote:
    I'm planning to do lake district - newcastle in a day in the summer. It's about 80 miles,

    do you know a short-cut or is it from Penrith to Gateshead? :?
  • saunaboy
    saunaboy Posts: 116
    Google maps had penrith to newcastle at 77 miles over the hartside pass. Route is straight from penrith, over pass into Alston, past hexham racecourse, then over the Tyne & into west Newcastle via stamfordham.

    Got this planned when def good weather known as a training run for trip to alps in summer. Figuring since hartside pass has one hairpin I can pretend I'm there for about 30 seconds...!

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