Pedal for Scotland 2012

[AnythingButVanilla]

Hi all!
I have just found out I'm off on the day of the ride, will enroll tomorrow
I am pretty sure I could ride it back to Glasgow if I take my time, but I don't know the way on the road.
I have read the previous threads, understand you are not allowed to cycle back the way you came.
Vanilla, are you up to cycling back with me, or shall I book on the transport to Glasgow?

Yay!

I'll reply properly to your PM when I get home tonight but we'll be getting the train back from Edinburgh as my brother is at uni there and I'll probably dump the bikes at his and take him out for dinner, otherwise I'd have considered riding home via the canals if the weather is dry.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Yay!

I'll reply properly to your PM when I get home tonight but we'll be getting the train back from Edinburgh as my brother is at uni there and I'll probably dump the bikes at his and take him out for dinner, otherwise I'd have considered riding home via the canals if the weather is dry.

Hey, before dinner there's lunch
If we leave Glasgow at about 9 we will make it to Edinburgh for lunch time: I think lunch is included in the entry fee

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Sorry for the stupid question but what date is the ride on?

 

[HLaB]

I'm in and not done it before but not sure whether to use the road bike or the MTB. Is the route suitable for a road bike?

When I did the challenge route I was on a flat bar road bike and there was plenty of riders on the drops, the surface is 99% OK the only dodgy bit back then was the grass track through the Hopetoun Estate (they might have changed the route since then), you just have to slow down there.

 

[zizou]

Its on Sunday 9th September

When I did the challenge route I was on a flat bar road bike and there was plenty of riders on the drops, the surface is 99% OK the only dodgy bit back then was the grass track through the Hopetoun Estate (they might have changed the route since then), you just have to slow down there.

Yeah the route finishes at Murrayfield now, you get to cycle through the stadium to a crowd of adoring fans empty seats

 

[Pedal pusher]

Still not got my starter pack yet

Arrived today (calm down son)

 

[doddy73]

Couldn't resist and signed up for a 3rd time...... Let's hope the weather holds out and the queue at the start line moves a bit quicker.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Hey, before dinner there's lunch
If we leave Glasgow at about 9 we will make it to Edinburgh for lunch time: I think lunch is included in the entry fee

9? I was hoping to be halfway there by that time

 

[mydodgyfeet]

In all honesty, how realistic is completing this - given today's "effort" was my first since January? I've not done it before.

 

[GlasgowGaryH]

Arrived today (calm down son)

Got mine now

 

[Pat "5mph"]

9? I was hoping to be halfway there by that time

Skimmed on the pdf on the site: was there not something about the earliest start being 9? Need to read it again!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

In all honesty, how realistic is completing this - given today's "effort" was my first since January? I've not done it before.

Ach, you'll be ok: if you really struggle you can stop, relax, head to the next train station back to Glasgow... I think

 

[doddy73]

In all honesty, how realistic is completing this - given today's "effort" was my first since January? I've not done it before.

You'll be fine I reckon, the pace is slow and there 's no taxing climbs. Perhaps split the day into 5 x 10 mile stints, stopping for a break at each rest station to refuel.

 

[doddy73]

Skimmed on the pdf on the site: was there not something about the earliest start being 9? Need to read it again!

Not sue if this is the case but the 100 milers went off between 07 & 07:45 last year... Then the challenge riders were released. The queues are huge by 8/9 so an early start is the way to go.

 

[Col5632]

Not sue if this is the case but the 100 milers went off between 07 & 07:45 last year... Then the challenge riders were released. The queues are huge by 8/9 so an early start is the way to go.

Couldnt agree with this statement more, think i was in the q for well over an hour last year