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Ian, what kind of lodgings are you finding each day?

ATM receipts, photos taken of the stop with a time stamp, open location control points are all possibles. I have signed the card myself if the control is busy. I have never ridden a brevet where a volunteer sits at a control, it's always petrol stations or the like or an information control.

Plan all you like, in the end it's going to come down to luck

Well isn't all that true, it's supposed to be an adventure anyway, isn't it?

There is no question that a lot of these anti helmet comments are silly. If you don't want to wear a helmet and the organiser says you should, don't ride it.

James,

Good fortune, good weather, good roads and careful drivers on your LeJog.

Ken.

I generally have a list of villages and go from one to the next to the next That is not a bad way to navigate, as long as the villages are signposted. I think I'll probably lurch from one village or town to another without concerning myself if there another way when the obvious and well signposted ...

Just be pleasant and polite to the driver and it will be fine

I'm a lovely person and friendly with everyone.

Looking up the Wick- Inverness route on the Stagecoach site regarding bikes it says this: "In some areas, you can take your bike on the bus. Please contact the local team in your area and they'll be happy to advise." It doesn't sound particularly positive. On the other hand; it's only abou...

I'm finding that a major issue with trying to create a cue sheet list of turns is the lack of road names. A cue sheet requires a description such as: at mile X turn left onto something road, but the something road has no name shown on the route map or on google maps or on RWGPS (which is based on go...

James, have you finalised your return transport from JoG and if so could you share what they are please.

I understand you may have told all this in various threads, but a recap would be useful. Thanks.

Ken.

Thanks RP. My current plan - always open to changes - will be to probably start during the last week of August and be finished the end of the first week in September. I have a weekend of bike races to organise for the beginning of October, so I have to be done early enough to finalise that. I should...

On LeJog: The A9 between Perth and Inverness is going to be a series of roadworks for at least the next 10 years; there's been rumblings along it of the possibility it will gain special road status in the process, as the bridges on the current NMU route from Calvine to Dalnaspiddal that are blocked ...

It’s nigh on impossible to anyone out on the road without internet access.

I agree. I'm going to trace and create a cue sheet from it - same as I will do with Mick F's fast and safe route. That way knowledgeable folk can offer recommended suggestions for variations to them.

I was backpacking in the Sierras a couple of years ago and met a young person who was heading for Joshua Tree, I asked how he was getting there since he had no means of transport and he said, he was just going to head in that direction. It was going to be at least 300 miles as the crow flies from wh...

Student98, you are young, healthy, got a few good mates, so I suggest just go with it and make it up as you go along. Europe is sort of civilised < SNIP > so there is not much that you need to worry about. Find a good starting point, head east and see how it all goes. That's the best way to have an ...