Cycling UK Forum

Weather wise, there's more difference in rainfall between East and West of the Pennines than there is between most months. Also if you go looking for the rainfall statistics, make sure you look at duration as well as volume, though April through to July have similar volume the duration is different.
Plan all you like, in the end it's going to come down to luck. Mine started in the worst of weather and ended in the best with no neutral days between.

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?

My adventure starts in 37 days..

Hi,
My adventure starts in 30 - 37 days I hope.
A long shot which will probably crucify me
Good luck, my southern to northern end will probably be next year unless my next adventure goes well this year, hears hoping / dreaming

I'm hoping for at least dry weather. I've cycled through Lake District into Scotland last year, as far as Fort William and I got mostly very dry and bright overcast days from around end June to mid July. Even though the temperatures were high last summer, it was still very comfortable 25C in Scotland.

Fingers crossed for the same/similar this year.

Whens the best time of the day GMT for qms. Sometimes it goes for hours without finding anybody. If the CM lobbies are full does that mean theres a good chance the QMs will be too?

It's pot luck of course but early-mid September worked out very well for me and our group. Plenty of sun (sunburn ) with just 2 hours rain over the entire nine days and a light tailwind all the way.

If I was doing it again I'd either go in May/June or September.

BarryFah wrote:Whens the best time of the day GMT for qms. Sometimes it goes for hours without finding anybody. If the CM lobbies are full does that mean theres a good chance the QMs will be too?

QM ... CM?

Please elucidate for us lesser mortals!

LollyKat wrote:

BarryFah wrote:Whens the best time of the day GMT for qms. Sometimes it goes for hours without finding anybody. If the CM lobbies are full does that mean theres a good chance the QMs will be too?

QM ... CM?

Please elucidate for us lesser mortals!

You’re talking to bot
Posts get deleted but the user hasn’t yet I don’t understand.

Having lived in Scotland a few times over the years, and talking as a Lancastrian by heritage, and having lived in Cornwall for 35years, and having cycled the length of the UK, I would say that the best time to do an End2End is May/June.
Not too hot in the south, and not too wet in the north.

Back in 1982(?), we as a family moved from Plymouth, Devon to Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire. It was early September.
The girls - we have two - wore little dresses and sandals, and I was in shorts and Mrs Mick F was in light dresses ............. within a few days, we all had to buy wellies and coats. Meanwhile, the friends we left behind were still in summery clothing for weeks afterwards.

We have friends in Peterhead, north of Aberdeen, not far from Fraserburgh. We have stayed with them in high summer June/July, but still needed coats and hats.

We folks in the namby pamby south have no idea what it's like Up North at all.

I well remember on a return visit to Norfolk having been in the States for a few years and acclimated to the warmer weather here and going onto the beach at Gt. Yarmouth and seeing a bloke there wearing a singlet and shorts and I was covered head to foot in a thick overcoat and still was shivering.

70 mile ride today and the temperature was 94 at the end. That's why we have such thin blood these days.

Past Glasgow it did seem cooler?

I put my padded tights over my shorts for the last two days which helped my backside no end!!

Cheers James

Paulatic wrote:

LollyKat wrote:

BarryFah wrote:Whens the best time of the day GMT for qms. Sometimes it goes for hours without finding anybody. If the CM lobbies are full does that mean theres a good chance the QMs will be too?

QM ... CM?

Please elucidate for us lesser mortals!

You’re talking to bot
Posts get deleted but the user hasn’t yet I don’t understand.

I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful but I can't make sense of your post either.

LollyKat wrote:

Paulatic wrote:

LollyKat wrote:
QM ... CM?

Please elucidate for us lesser mortals!

You’re talking to bot
Posts get deleted but the user hasn’t yet I don’t understand.

I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful but I can't make sense of your post either.

It was thoughts quicker than fingers disease.
I believe BarryFah is a bot not a real person. There have been a few of his nonsense posts deleted/disappear so I wonder if he is a bot why do the mods delete his posts but not his account?

Ah, right - NOW I get it! Thanks