Sweep wrote:chris.steenkamp wrote:Hi everyone! Looking at taking the bikes up to Birmingham by train, and cycling back via the canals and towpaths.
Has anyone attempted this, and do they have any advice?
I have taken a train to birmingham and ridden back to london a couple times.
You can have the tried and tested gpx if you pm me.
Didn't involve canals though except for the first bit.
Although I have ridden canals on long rides, eg my ride wolverhampton to ribble valley which spent ages on canals near stoke that was because cycletravel routed me that way. I wouldn't deliberately seek them out.
I can recommend breakfast and an espresso in blenheim palace park even though you aren't really supposed to be there.
(Breakfast - i bivvied en route though not i stress at blenheim.
Any chance i could grab that GPX file! Cheers in advance