NigelHealy

I have so many front wheels I am dismantling them for free wheel rims.....

tmesis

Great photos! Thanks for posting about your tour. I enjoyed it.

Winfried

Great posts. Would you have the GPX files, possibly with the places you stayed at?

NigelHealy

Sorry didn't do tracking these routes are roughy accurate from memory, places I slept easily found.

Winfried

Looks like a very nice area for touring. I might give it shot next year, Brexit permitting.

NigelHealy

You missed a bit



Yes that part of northern Englad is very nice for Brompton camp / B&B touring, it is relatively low population, plenty of roads to find quieter roads but usually not more than 10 miles from anything you may need.

I also from Preston with my camping kit still weighing me down I did this to close the loop. I was biking during the good weather days and walking on bad weather days.





Then I ditched my camping kit with intention of B&B it all the way to Stratford-upon-Avon but I found I was still finding about 50 miles a day a comfortable upper limit in hilly areas on Brompton. Flatter areas then 60 miles/day quite viable, so I had to use train to make up for lost time.












Then as weather was getting bad from the northwest I went southeast






These later trips benefiting from easy to store in B&B, on trains without having to book a special train ticket for bike or worrying about if train had bike storage and keeping the bike in my bedroom not locked up outside somewhere.

I have been wondering what I can do to lighten up my camping kit, I am wondering if I could do what others do which is put a bag under my legs and use a half-size pad, and also if I could sleep in my clothes and get by with less of a sleeping bag, it did seem, given its summer, odd to lug all that stuff and be sleeping in a fraction of it. I wonder if I could use the Brompton seatpost as the tent pole?

NigelHealy

These from when I ditched camping kit, notice I needed only the T-bag, its not as stuffed and no rack box, so ditching camping kit roughly halved my luggage.

Brompton fits in B&B rooms easily enough




The fuel is tasty!




Trains space not a problem.