This is our 5th coast to coast ride with school students. In the past we have done the Way of the Roses route three times and the Lake District route once. Although this is the second time I have done The Hadrians Wall route it is the first time for the students.
In the past the students have been 13 to 16 years old so we took a group of about forty six to forty eight students. Yes that was a crazy sight on the road. For this trip we are taking students starting from 11 years old so they are a bit younger we decided to lower the group size to twenty.
We have split the route up into three stages. Day 1 is 106 km, Day 2 is 79 km and Day 3 is 32 km.
This video is the first day and the route can be seen on this GPX file. It goes from the start in Allonby to our first camp at Banks.
ridewithgps.com/trips/9179643...
There is a news article on one of our coast to coast routes at this link. It is by Cycling UK.
www.cyclinguk.org/news/201704...
You can view all of the UK Cycling Network at Sustrans.
www.sustrans.org.uk/
There are also many road and off road routes designed by Cycling UK.
www.cyclinguk.org/140-routes?...
I also include a review of the brilliant 12 speed Microshift Shifters and Paul Components Thumbies. Please Paul keep making the Thumbies. They are ace! or Microshift do some top of the bar 12 speed levers with a 31.8 clamp as well as your straight bar ones cause I love changing gear at the top as with flared bars the bar ends can be vulnerable to knocks and this method solves that problem.
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4 июн 2022
