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Post by mtbman on Jan 7, 2010 21:15:18 GMT
As I've mentioned before, I co-organised a charity bike ride from Holyhead to Cardiff along the Route 8 Sustrans National cycle route June/July last year, raising £22000 for Welsh Air Ambulance and Spinal Injuries research. We did Holyhead to Porthmadog day 1, Port to Machynlleth day 2, Day 3 Mach to Rhayadr, Day 4 Rhayadr to Brecon, Day 5 Brecon to Merthir Tydfil, then Day 6 into Cardiff. We had fund raising evenings/ Auctions each evening and a televised finish. I reckon you could do this route at a push in 4 days, but nicely in 5. Fair do's mate that's a fantastic amount of cash raised and an incredible amount of miles covered in 6days. Respect
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Post by Paul on Jan 7, 2010 21:25:54 GMT
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Post by dyls on Jan 7, 2010 21:31:31 GMT
We did a part of this from Mach to Penrhyn last year and some of the sections we rode would not be suitable for a road bike, eg the section through CYB. You'd need at least a hybrid.
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Post by rallybiker on Jan 8, 2010 18:07:42 GMT
The ideal bike is a light hardtail XC , with lockout forks on semi slicks or tough slicks, as you have about 20 miles off road
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Post by S3dINS (AKA Nik) on Jan 8, 2010 20:05:36 GMT
Rallybiker, Do you have the time to organize this type of thing? It'd be nice to keep it within this community to gain recognition for MBNW as well as raising money for Cancer Reaserch UK.
If you are unable to put the time in maybe you could give me an idea as to what I need to do to organise it. I'm determined to do the coast to coast, whether it be North to South or South to North makes little difference to me, I just want to ride.
I will make the decision now though that this thread is for a summer 2011 ride. As for the 2010 ride I may join that one too but the Mrs won't.
So to recap, I need an organiser or help in organising. This is a coast to coast ride for Cancer research UK. It's going to be a summer 2011 event.
Thanks for taking notice and for your input guys.
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Post by dsmiff on Jan 8, 2010 20:33:28 GMT
Trying to follow this thread, but where is the ride for 2010? Was planning on doing a C2C with the lad this year would be ideal if we could so something similar for charity and with a group.
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Post by dyls on Jan 8, 2010 20:53:03 GMT
This c2c looks a good route, says mostly off road. It took them 7 days but they did do parts of routes at trail centres which you could miss out on if you wanted to make the journey less time. www.numplumz.com/C2C06/C2C06.htm
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Post by S3dINS (AKA Nik) on Jan 8, 2010 21:28:56 GMT
Smiff, Paul posted the link in the first part of this thread but here it is again for ease of finding northwalesmtb.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=generalchat&thread=3552&page=1. Dyls, that link looks a corker mate. I'm definitely more interested in doing more offroad than on road. If we hit trail centres along the way then that could be a bonus, but it wil undoubtedly increase the amount of time the main ride would take. I've seen estimates of about 180 miles from one coast to the other and 30 miles a day would take us a good 6 days. I have no time restrictions and neither does my Mrs, so if it takes us 6 days or 10 makes no difference to us, it probably will affect some of the other people interested in doing the ride. Basically if we just do the main ride I'd be looking at 6 days, if we were to take in the trail centres then we'd have to extend that by a good 4 days so we could enjoy them without rushing and worrying about deadlines. Maybe having 2 groups would be an idea. Group 1 goes direct, while Group A does the more involved ride. Discuss.
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Post by Paul on Jan 8, 2010 21:35:36 GMT
I think you'll find the 180 miles / 6 days hard enough going without rest days so wouldnt get too ambitious 1st time around. With training, the first 3 or 4 days wont be too bad - it'll be the days after that where you start to feel the miles - especially if doing a more offroad route up through Wales.
10 days with maybe 1 rest day would be hard work for most i'd say - especially with diversions to do all the S Wales trail centres.
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