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I've modded the D2 route to take in the Meldon Viaduct which, I agree, looks fantastic and then continue to Okehampton One question on your navigation around Taunton....we will be on standard road bikes with 25mm slick tyres. Can the non-road routes you suggest be ridden easily with a normal road b...

Day 2 route looks good. I've cycled the route between Okehampton and Tiverton a few times. It's a little hillier than the southern route MickF recommends but is beautiful and theirs a good cafe in the village shop at Morchard Bishop. If you want to and can spare 5 minutes is I'd divert onto the Gran...

I have a mk3 Thorn audax, and have used it for day rides, audaxing and B&B touring (either with 2 small panniers or with a Carradice) and it's a comfortable, nice riding, bomb proof bike. They are heavy though, the frame and forks weigh upwards of 3.3kg. I would say on a sliding scale from race ...

New series started this week with Monsal trail. I really need to take my bike next time i go to visit the parents...

It’s the English translation of my surname. Simple

I don't think I'm the one with a limited definition of touring - I know only too well that people tour on everything from road bikes to fat bikes, passing through hybrids, tourers, roadsters, gravel, cross, MTB and more along the way. I think it's the people who are promoting these MTB routes as if...

I have no problem with CUK developing off-road routes like King Alfred's Way - it looks like a superb ride and I'd love to try it one day. Full marks to Zulu Eleven and colleagues for their work on it. Agree completely, by the way. I'm just mystified by comments that this sort of stuff is "aim...

Its quite funny actually if you read that report, the 2 land owners who rejected the move to use the rail bed have backed this one as it doesn't interrupt work on their farms...

Absolutely none on the old rail bed. The current land owner has point blank refused as far as I understand. There is planning permission to extend the current Tarka trail from the right angle turn just before Meeth down to the lane from the A road to Petrockstow. The Made Well centre isn’t trying to...

. Spent the first night at campsite at East Yarde, very small, delightful café and some nights is also a restaurant and well worth going to – if it’s still open. Next night we stopped at campsite in Plymouth then returned the same way, stopping at East Yarde again. Last time I looked East Yarde had...

Here's the other thread - http://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=89435

Someone else asked the same question recently, so worth having a search to see what was recommended there. I think parking near the station in Exeter is a good compromise as trains back from Barnstaple to Plymouth require changes.

If your route takes you this way, you wouldn't do badly to look at staying at the youth hostel at St. Briavels.

Im going to annoy MickF here as we've disagreed about this in the past, but at Sourton I'd personally be diverting onto the Granite way past the Church of St Thomas a Becket. This then will take you over the Meldon viaduct, which in my view is worth doing even for the extra few minutes it would take...

I remember the canal had "milestones" representing the planets and their relative distances. What a lovely idea. How better to get a grasp of the relative distances than by riding (or walking) them. I suppose that relative sizes would be difficult!, but a sculptural representation would b...