Brompton Lejog

rootes · Post by **rootes** » 5 May 2011, 2:20pm

Did it!

8 Days, 876miles, mainly on little roads where possible including two stream crossings!

Start Lands End 22nd April 2011

End John O'Groats 29th April 2011

Garmin Edge 500 for navigation with paper A2Z back up.

Have the whole route in gpx tcx files if anyone wants them.

custom front bag for the trip

plasticfantastic · Post by **plasticfantastic** » 5 May 2011, 5:54pm

Brilliant! Well done.

toontra · Post by **toontra** » 5 May 2011, 6:04pm

Well done guys!

fimm · Post by **fimm** » 5 May 2011, 9:35pm

Wow, cool! I always say I wouldn't want to go too far on my Brompton, looks like I could be wrong... was that all the luggage you had, though?

rootes · Post by **rootes** » 5 May 2011, 10:47pm

Yer travelled light.12l front bag & 3l saddle bag...plus stuff in jersey pockets did a bit of washing on route!

Post by Si » 6 May 2011, 8:27am

Impressive!

Is that a double crankset on the red one?

rootes · Post by **rootes** » 8 May 2011, 11:17am

If anyone wants the garmin course files you can download them from here:

http://tinyurl.com/6zth2a8 - zip file of 8 tcx files.

used bikeroutetoaster.com to create them and used them as course in a Garmin Edge 500.

We did mostly follow them, but in places we found a better on the ground (loch lomond route from Glasgow, parallel to the road etc) also route for day one shows a route to get to the Granite Way near Oakhampton - bike rouet toaster suggests a route but it is a rough byway.. etc..

when I have time will clean them up a bit and repost.

Si

rootes · Post by **rootes** » 17 May 2011, 11:16am

Si wrote:
Is that a double crankset on the red one?

yep doubles on both:

48/38 on the Front with 113mm BB (well 110 + a 2mm spacer on mine!) and standard 12/16 Brompton rear 2 speed.

Foot to shift the chainset and finger to shift back worked well.

the setup works out to provide 3 distinct gears 38/12 being the sameish as 48/16 in gear inches - the idea to stop the need to change from big to little ring too much.

Lejogoneday · Post by **Lejogoneday** » 12 Jun 2011, 9:46pm

This is very impressive. I am keen to do this in 7 or 8 days on a light road set up but would love to stay off the a roads as much as possible. How did you manage to do this on little roads and keep the mileage low ?

I don't have a garmin would like to view your route, any ideas how ?

Great effort,
L

Pizza_man · Post by **Pizza_man** » 15 Jun 2011, 12:05pm

You can upload them to http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx (courses tab) to look at them.

Will even Add Height Data (may already be present in files), so you can check out the hills.....

rootes · Post by **rootes** » 16 Jun 2011, 4:38pm

Lejogoneday wrote:This is very impressive. I am keen to do this in 7 or 8 days on a light road set up but would love to stay off the a roads as much as possible. How did you manage to do this on little roads and keep the mileage low ?

I don't have a garmin would like to view your route, any ideas how ?

Great effort,
L

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