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Chapeau to you for what you've done.

Looking at the responses to the 3 week Jogle and being reluctant to effectively stopping some Wimps from taking part may I suggest For next year do a Wimps tour of Scotland including some of the islands. this could be 7 to 10days depending on the Wimps availability. The following year we could comp...

Five of us have just done this route (last week of this August)- the other 4 were joining me from Queensferry to JoG as the last part of a LeJog that I have done in stages. (for the backstory see https://hughwill69.wordpress.com/ ) As always the reality is somewhere between Mick F's 'no problems at ...

I can't believe that this thread is just about to pass 2000 posts- when I started it, I really did think I was on my own! I'm sorry that I have never had the opportunity to join in with the other Wimps. It's been due to a tragedy of unbearable proportions in my family (as well as me being even more ...

With 32mm tyres you should be fine, even if they are Marathons (which ones?) which are generally not the most supple tyres. On 23mm or 25mm it would be rather more uncomfortable but still doable. Marathon Supremes. Smashing tyres but unfortunately not available any more in my usual 28s. Can't think...

It's been a few years since I rode the 7076/8 route on 23mm tyres, but my recollection is pretty much as others have stated. Are you planning on following route 74 all the way to Glasgow to pick up Route 7? No. Going via Edinburgh and the Forth Bridge. Sorry, I should have made it clear I was turni...

I'm hoping, back permitting, to complete my LeJog in September 2018 or April/May 2019 (target is before my 70th birthday in November). Being a wimp at heart, I'm hoping to go over Beattock on the B7076/NCN74 route and over the Grampians on NCN7. I've read negative reports about the road/track surfac...

Thanks for all the replies. Yes it looks as though there's a reason not to let any organisation get a monopoly- hopefully I wasn't the only one fooled by their 'do no harm' slogan. 'Monetise' is a vile word, and in this case it describes a sad reality.

Thank goodness we still have OpenStreetMaps.

Thanks for the reply. I have emailed.

I'd not thought of the quota thing- perhaps the quotas are monthly and maybe that's it for the site until September.

Reminds me of the sites that use Ordnance Survey open access maps- often the daily limit is exceeded by 5 in the afternoon!

Hi all, I don't know about you, but I've always gone back to Bikehike.co.uk for route planning as it seems to be the only one offering proper route editing facility and it benefits from having a Ordnance Survey screen to check detail. In the last week though, the Google Maps screen has greyed out wi...

Just caught up with the valiant progress of the self styled Wimps (80 miles a day? Not my idea of wimping....) But good luck to all.. sadly I won't be able to join for a day at the weekend due to a long-term family tsunami (see hughwill69.wordpress.com for my replacement activity). But I'm with you ...

Hi, How did you find the Granite Way? Was it hell or was it pleasant and traffic free..........how were those mountains of slopes...............plenty places to stop and sandwich etc...... :mrgreen: Well, after climbing on the old A30 from Bridestowe finding it at all was somewhat of a chore since ...

oldmanonabike wrote:We once talked about you joining us for a day or two rides, if you want to do that let me know what area you live in and I can tell you when we will be near there. It would be great to meet up

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Just in case anyone wants to know what I originally meant by Lejog for Wimps (see first post of this topic), I've just done the first 3 days of mine. I'll contemplate the next half dozen days in a few weeks. As for you lot doing your 'Wimp' ride, all I can say is that you all sound pretty tough and ...

It's very interesting to read hughwill69's and Lollycat's comments. CTC Tour's LEJoG does not go up Cheddar Gorge (They enjoy a relatively flat day from Exeter to Weston-Super-Mare). Nor do they plough through the Forest of Bowland or go through Braemar. Whether the rest day is 'near the end' is de...