Lakeland Loop - how hard ?

[Jeremy]

Was thinking about doing the Lakeland Loop, as described in
Wheelwright's book, this summer. But sounds like a hard ride.
Is it as difficult as he suggests?

Last summer we did Birmingham to London along the Grand Union Cannal and
were looking for something a little more exciting for this year. Do you
think the Lakeland Loop is too much of jump up?

Is there an alternative route round the lakes, for softies :). Thought
I'd heard of the 'flat route round the lakes' or somehting.

Thanks
Jeremy
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[R.P. Sutton]

Did the Lakeland loop last Summer and it was absolutely superb. It is
quite tough but a fit rider should have no real problems especially if you
stay in youth hostels or B&B as you can carry significantly less gear.
There are a couple of tough days but if the weather's good and with long
hours of daylight it's not that hard. Having said that, another group
started at the same time as me and when the weather got bad they dropped
out. (To compound problems they didn't tell anybody that they were doing
this and the B&B where they were staying were quite concerned when they
didn't show up)
I would have thought that anybody who could do a good long day ride in
'proper mountains' should have no problems and would relish the challenge.

So go and do it and enjoy some of the best mountain biking in this country
and make sure you stay at Skiddaw House - probably the best youth hostel
in the world

Have a great trip

Roland

[R Dickson]

Lakeland Loop?
Could someone post a route please?
Thanks,
Bob Dickson (r.di...@shef.ac.uk)

[BILL ROBERTSON]

In article <qU2RKHAo...@elmc.demon.co.uk> Jeremy
<jer...@elmc.demon.co.uk> writes:

<snip>

Is there an alternative route round the lakes, for softies :). Thought
I'd heard of the 'flat route round the lakes' or somehting.

That's probably the Cumbria Cycleway. Goes around the coast and up the
Eden valley, a circuit of the Lakes without going into the middle
bit. If you see what I mean. There's a leaflet, I can dig out the
address if you like, and I think Cicerone Press have done a book on
it.

- Bill -
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[R.P. Sutton]

In article <4jdo6j$6...@bignews.shef.ac.uk>,

The lakeland loop is written up as one of the Wheelright (sp?) series of
MTB guide book and is available in most shops. It includes a narrative on
the authors attempt as well as clear instructions and and the appropriate
parts of the OS 1:50,000 landranger maps.

The route is designed to take 6 days and goes as follows

day 1: Windermere - Patterdale (via High Street)
day 2: Patterdale - Keswick
day 3: Keswick - Buttermere ( via Back 'O Skiddaw)
day 4: Buttermere - Eskdale ( via Floutern Tarn, Black sail pass This is
probably the hardest day)
day 5: Eskdale - Coniston
day 6: Coniston - Windermere.

Its well worth doing and I'd reccommend buying the book as it is well
written and £10 well spent so get out there and do The Loop you won't
regret it

Roland

[Stuart Lodge]

Does anyone know anything about the other routes in the series...?

I'm setting off over Easter along the Wessex Way one (more of a pub
crawl than a serious ride...) as a warm up until the serious stuff of a
coast to coast attempt later in the year when the weather's a bit
more predictable.

Any comments on hardness, things to avoid, things worth going off the
route for, accomodation to avoid (it's not too late for us to change!)
and anything else at all are very gratefully recieved indeed

Stuart

Also we've got a rest day planned for Basingstoke.... The Tourist Info
Centre there have been really good with providing some cycling info for
the surrounding area, but what else is there to do in the unlikely
event that maybe we wouldn't want to go cycling too far on our day off?

[Paul Smith]

In article <4jg5ov$87o...@leeds.ac.uk>,

MEN...@leeds.ac.uk (R.P. Sutton) wrote:
>In article <4jdo6j$6...@bignews.shef.ac.uk>,
> ph...@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (R Dickson) wrote:
>>Lakeland Loop?
>>Could someone post a route please?
>>Thanks,
>>Bob Dickson (r.di...@shef.ac.uk)
>
>The lakeland loop is written up as one of the Wheelright (sp?) series of
>MTB guide book and is available in most shops. It includes a narrative on
>the authors attempt as well as clear instructions and and the appropriate
>parts of the OS 1:50,000 landranger maps.
>

I'm off this easter to do the day rides that are included in the book. There
are five of them, I'll see how many I get round (depending on the weather).

I'll post a report here if anyone's interested!

Oh, I enjoyed Bike '96. Fantastic. The only negative comment from my
girlfriend was the lack of womens clothing and bits!

Cheers,
Paul

[Shaun C. Murray]

In article <4jp3pe$gvk...@nott.ac.uk>, EAX...@ean1.mecheng.nottingham.ac.uk
says...

>
>Oh, I enjoyed Bike '96. Fantastic. The only negative comment from my
>girlfriend was the lack of womens clothing and bits!

I presume you're talking about Rob Warner walking around with two bodypainted
girls in the style of his sponsors T-shirts. Yep, definitely a lack of womens
clothing but I'm not sure about the lack of bits. ;-)

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