Cantii Way

[gaz]

Coming soon - 145 mile tour of Kent "using a combination of quiet ways, country lanes, byways and bridleways the route is designed to be manageable by anyone of reasonable fitness on most types of bike."

https://www.cyclinguk.org/press-release ... route-kent

[simonhill]

I was going to post about this but couldn't get the picture to copy and then went out to dinner.

Sounds good, but....

I was given a link by Mr Google to the Kent newspaper which was publicising it. The lead photo was of a youngish couple wheeling their bikes over a row of sleepers on a gravel beach.

This is meant to be a cycle route but the papers idea of it is a walk across a beach.

[Paulatic]

Sounds interesting Do you @ Gaz think it has potential and I assume it avoids the lorry parks.
I was in Kent a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised to discover quiet lanes within a stones throw of the busy A2

[Jdsk]

Thanks.

I've just read the article.



Is there a better map of the route?

Jonathan

[Cyclewala]

I think the full route details will be published in May.

[gaz]

I was given a link by Mr Google to the Kent newspaper which was publicising it. The lead photo was of a youngish couple wheeling their bikes over a row of sleepers on a gravel beach.

This is meant to be a cycle route but the papers idea of it is a walk across a beach.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/ ... nt-264009/
I've no idea whether the images were chosen by Cycling UK or Kent Messenger, either way stopping to take a break on the beach is part of the fun.

Is there a better map of the route?

Cycling UK tends towards GPX files, I don't know what's planned but I doubt we'll see anything before the launch date.

Sometime since Zulu Eleven last posted, he is usually well informed about these matters.

[Norman H]

Looking at those images it looks to include many of the locations that we visited in 2019. If you can't wait for the official launch here's a brief summary of our route:

We cycled from a friend's place near Paddock Wood to Dungeness and Followed NCN2 across Romney Marsh to Hythe and along the coast to Folkestone. At Dover we joined NCN1 and followed it all the way to Sandwich where it heads inland to Canterbury. We instead continued north along the coast to pick up regional route 15 (The Viking Way) at Cliffs End and follow it anticlockwise around the North Foreland to Whitstable. From Whitstable the Crab and Winkle way took us to Canterbury where we joined route 18 on a delightful ride alongside the river to Chartam, and beyond to Wye and Ashford. We made our way back to PW from Ashford but it would be easy enough to continue south to Appledore and Dungeness to complete the circuit.

Route 18 passes right by Ashford International station which would make an ideal starting point for this tour.

[Jdsk]

Thankyou.

That will keep me planning happily until the launch.

: - )

Jonathan

[sjs]

Will one be allowed to ride it using other kinds of brakes?

[Jdsk]

: - )

Jonathan

[gaz]

Sign up for info: https://www.cyclinguk.org/route/cantii- ... -the-route

[Nearholmer]

Very good idea, lots of interesting things in Kent.

As an apprentice skinflint, I use CycleStreets, because it is excellent and costs no money.

Is this likely to materialise on CycleStreets as a highlighted route, or at least the bits that aren’t already there as something else?

[mjr]

Is this likely to materialise on CycleStreets as a highlighted route, or at least the bits that aren’t already there as something else?

Only if it's signed. Cycle Streets is based on Open Street Map, which aims to represent what's in the real world.

[Nearholmer]

Ah, I see, not if not signposted.

Thanks.

Possibly just me, but most signposted cycling routes are like riddles if not backed by map, preferably on-screen, because signposting is sporadic. Not a complaint, because I realise how posting even little stickers at the density needed for ‘sign only’ navigation would be a practical impossibility.

[mjr]

Possibly just me, but most signposted cycling routes are like riddles if not backed by map, preferably on-screen, because signposting is sporadic. Not a complaint, because I realise how posting even little stickers at the density needed for ‘sign only’ navigation would be a practical impossibility.

And yet volunteers post them at that density (4 per turn, 2 per straight through junction) in several countries. Sustrans now also seem to be aiming for that, after years of trying to make do with half that number and using sideways -facing signs.

The big problem is vandalism by bike-haters, closely followed by government negligence allowing signposts to get grown over, or rust out and fall over. Some volunteer groups have made their markings less obvious to reduce vandalism, such as Belgium's Rando-Velo, but of course that makes them less useful to riders who don't know the code.