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Redditch to paris! help

by callum24
Wed, Apr 12, 2017 19:50
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Hi everyone me and a few friends are riding from redditch in the west midlands to paris at the end of next month and i was wondering if anyone on here had done this before? we need a bit of help with the route if im honest! we are doing it for a friend of ours who was recently diagnosed with bowell cancer at the age of 25. thanks people, the link is here for anyone who wants to read our story and maybe even donate, thanks! 

https://www.gofundme.com/RedditchToParis

 

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Stratman | 7 years ago
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And this one may be better

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Stratman | 7 years ago
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try this one - i think that it works

 

 

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dougie_c | 7 years ago
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My top tip would be: decide HOW you are going to navigate ASAP, then practise using that method before you set off. Neither Portsmouth nor Paris are hard to find.

I'm an old git, so I use paper maps* carried in an Ortlieb bar bag mapcase, but I've observed that many young people enjoy squinting at electronic devices in bright sunlight, and rising to the challenge of their continuing electrical nourishment. If I was a really old git I'd copy out a routesheet by hand before I set off, but then if you deviate off it for some reason you're a bit stuffed. I also carry a small magnetic compass on my watchstrap, which is handy for maintaining navigational awareness in overcast or nocturnal conditions, especially if a one-way system has given the old sense of direction a dizzying stir.

Mmh! 60 km in the morning and 60 km in the afternoon. Lovely! Have a great trip.

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*pages torn out of (4 miles/inch) motoring atlases in the UK, the widely-available Michelin carte régionale 1:200,000 series in France

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wycombewheeler replied to dougie_c | 7 years ago
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dougie_c wrote:

M... I've observed that many young people enjoy squinting at electronic devices in bright sunlight, and rising to the challenge of their continuing electrical nourishment....

sweet I am now young people again. 1

paper maps as a back up is prudent, but gps devices are perfectly easy to follow even in bright sunlight.

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wycombewheeler | 7 years ago
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you need two routes, one to the channel and one front the channel to Paris. Do you intend to cross from Portsmouth or dover? Dover crossing let's you use the many charity routes from London, but you then have to go through London. Best bet might be to pick a series of towns at 50 mile intervals and then ask for local knowledge between those towns. ah on following the link I see you are ahead of me, I'll see what I can do about a route from le havre to Paris.

 

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peted76 | 7 years ago
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I can help with the route...  http://cycle.travel - it's what the kids call the bomb diggidy for cycle mapping.

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