Night Ride Carlisle - Newcastle 19-Sep-2014

[mcshroom]

Hi. Sorry this is late I kinda got hung up with injuring myself and never got round to posting this.

Following on from last year's ride, would anyone fancy a trip over the Pennines overnight

Here's the plan. Meet up at Carlisle Station at 11pm, then ride to Brampton and sort of follow the Hadrians Cycle Way (I've avoided dropping into Haltwhistle and climbing the really steep bits round Vindolanda by using the Military road in the attached route). The ride finishes using the Tyne riverside path which ends up on the North bank of the river riding under many the bridges in Newcastle before arriving for breakfast on the Quayside. [Route]

The ride is 102km with 1050m climbing. Most of the climbing in the first part of the ride, and the end of the ride follows the river so is pretty much flat/downhill.

There isn't much that will be open going over the Pennines, but we will stop at a 24hr Tesco on the way out of Carlisle (about 3km), then there is a 24hr Tesco in Hexham (75km) where we can call in on the way. After that we head for (The Quayside) on the river front in Newcastle to get breakfast. It opens at 8am and is not far from Newcastle Station.

Carlisle is on the West Coast Main LIne, and Newcastle on the East Coast Main Line, with a railway line following the same valley as we'd be riding between the two so getting there/back should be possible from most places

It's looking less and less like I'll be able to lead the ride on the road, so I'm looking at supporting the ride in a sag astra waggon.

I've had a few offers from others to lead the ride though, so it will be happening

Riding
Dale
phantasmagoriana
yoav
Joe.B
Flatbar Steve - joining along route
DefBref
tiermat
Dave
Edwardoka
Fnarr
MikeW-71

Maybe
Malrees
Kim
Andrew Br
'Slow'coach
AndyRM
Di Di

Not riding
mcshroom
alans
Andrij
Telemark
theloafer
RythMick
GmanUK65
Scoosh
Ruthie
Mice
CharlieB

There's also a thread for this ride over on YACF - link

 

[DefBref]

As per the discussion on the 2013 thread, I'm in (leave pending).

 

[User10119]

Fwiw - I'm currently attempting to organise riding shotgun in the sag wagon. So if I do there's a fair-to-middling chance of cake.

 

[Telemark]

For those dithering whether it's worth travelling any distance (or staying awake most of the night) to take part in this ride - last year's edition was magical!
If you don't want any spoilers, ignore this link to my write-up from last year.

Sadly I'm not able to join you this time, hope you have a great ride!


T

 

[theloafer]

would have loved to ..but at hospital on the 8 sept for my other eye operation and will be 7+weeks off the bike

 

[mcshroom]

For those dithering whether it's worth travelling any distance (or staying awake most of the night) to take part in this ride - last year's edition was magical!
If you don't want any spoilers, ignore this link to my write-up from last year.

Sadly I'm not able to join you this time, hope you have a great ride!


T

That's a shame T.

 

[mcshroom]

would have loved to ..but at hospital on the 8 sept for my other eye operation and will be 7+weeks off the bike

Good luck with the op and GWS. I'm just coming up on 7 weeks off the bike after my crash and getting very frustrated at not being able to ride.

 

[Telemark]

That's a shame T.

There is always next year ... I can't complain really, as I'll be on holiday , hopefully lots of cycling included .
We had our own night ride from Edinburgh in June, as part of the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, didn't quite get the Milky Way, dawn colours & sunrise, but the middle-of-the-might food stop was top-notch .

Enjoy the sag wagon driving!

T

 

[RhythMick]

Did my first overnighter recently (Exmouth Exodus) and would love to do this one - sadly the diary doesn't fit for me this year.

 

[CharlieB]

What a shame you won't be up for this @mcshroom , I used the word Magical last year to describe this ride.
I'm in, please!

 

[mcshroom]

Just seen the physio and she's saying no cycling until after my next x-ray/ortho appointment, which is not until the week after this ride, so definitely not riding

 

[DefBref]

Thats a pity, but hopefully your on road to recovery.

 

[DefBref]

http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/news/ovingham-cyclists-put-pedestrians-safety-at-risk-1.1156282#

I guess when we are crossing this bridge we will be on our own since it will be 5 or 6am or something?

I've always just used the road but thats now closed for a year so we should be dismounting across the pedestrian half.

 

[mcshroom]

Yeah you'll have to use the pedestrian side of the bridge. There is a road route round if the bridge is completely closed, but that misses one of the best bridges along the way.

 

[Scoosh]

Hmmm ...


[thinks ... and tries to Man Up ...]