2 days to go!

Final plans are coming along nicley. Will and I had a final easy ride this evening before the bikes get packed up tomorrow. Have had a bit of hassle working out what to do with the bike bags at the other end. Mine was only £15 on ebay, but is worth a bit more than that - however it is going to cost me over £25 to ship it home so not sure its worth it!

We have the route all sorted now. The plan is to use a Garmin Vista GPS for the navigation, we have downloaded the routes on to it and will follow them like a paper map that is highlighted.Will's Garmin 500 will also hold the routes but is only really any good for telling us how far we have to go!

If anyone would like to see the routes please use the links below for each day.

Day 1  - Thurso – Inverness 

Day 2 – Inverness toKinross 

Day 3 – Kinross – Carlisle

Day 4 – Carlisle – Warrington

Day 5 Warrington – Gloucester

Day 6 - Gloucester- Whiddon Down

Day 7 Whiddon - Lands End scenic

In total we are looking at about 860 miles. If anyone fancies joining us for a leg or bit of a leg then please get in touch.

The Kit

We are both on our winter training bikes (Will on an Orbea Aqua and Tom on a Bianchi Via Nirone). We have a seatpost mounted rack each and on top of that is a small (12 litre) rack bag, which will carry all of our kit for the week! Plan is to travel as light as possible, spare set of cycling gear, pair of trousers, t-shirt and flip flops and a few essential bike spares, which will hopefully see us through.