Thanks for sharing your route Simon. We've been wondering who it was we saw at CVRC while parked up having a sandwich and trying to cool off. You've been the one we've told stories of, well.. marvelled by the way you stopped, didn't even switch off your bike, had everything on hand and even time to say hi and wish us a good day. (That's if you were the guy on the orange versys with the no.1 rally flag!).
Maisie and I decided to go from there to Telford and into Wales. We were hoping to end at Aberystwyth but with quite a few delays to the day.. we were at the peril of traffic (mostly lots of tractors) with maisie being on a 125, and super unfortunately ended up getting a wasp in her jacket and stung down her arm so we had to stop and cool off. Ended up hitting Snowdon Mountain Railway and rushing as fast as we could up to Bangor which was the nearest station.
Think you had the right idea skipping Wales, although we both love it there and despite how slow it was the scenery and route was well worth it for us.
- Interested to know did anyone try going for the Pub Crawl? We liked the idea but planning it took us JUST under 500 miles and with the start and finish in mind we didn't think we'd do it.
- Did anyone find Thomas?
Below I've included out route that we took. I've also included black arrows to show where we would have liked to finish up, and at the start if we'd have chosen a more optimal starting point. (Decided that crossing the line between the dales, bradford and to huddersfield without the motorway was just NOT worth the misery).
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