I finally set off from home at 12.34, according to Moves, on my latest bike ride heading towards Weymouth to get the ferry to Jersey and then St Malo. Hopefully getting to Ibiza and Morocco.
Todays ride ended at 18.10 at my daughter’s flat in London after a pretty exhausting 52 miles at 10.9mph. Perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to do the 600 yard swim first 🙁 plus the SW headwind didn’t help. The front gears on the Dawes Galaxy also aren’t shifting properly, apparently the mechanism isn’t suited to click shifts 🙁
Tomorrow it’s a ride through Central London emerging at Farnham, probably better than riding through Hertfordshire lanes with Chelsea Tractors being driven at high speed by mums collecting their little dears.
With Emily’s wedding, even though I say it myself, successfully completed last Saturday I’m now free to do a decent autumn ride in this brilliant weather.
I’ve never been to Ibiza, which is very surprising given my love of trance music and equally I’ve never done the Channel Islands especially Jersey.
So I’m thinking of biking down to Weymouth catching the ferry to Jersey, circumnavigating the island then getting the ferry to St Malo. followed by biking down the West coast of France to the Pyrenees and over to Spain. Once in Spain I intend to cross over to the Mediterranean coast and bike down to Denia to get the ferry to Ibiza. Sam reckons the clubs are still open so I could do an all nighter or two followed by a bike around the island.
If I’m still fit and have time I would love to bike onto Tarifa and get the ferry to Morocco and do a bit of biking along the Moroccan coast 🙂 returning on a flight to Stansted.
Nothing booked, of cause, except for staying with Emily on my way down to Weymouth.
The Dawes Galaxy is getting an overall at Kingsway bikes with the obligatory new cassette and chain before any ride.
Simon has welded up my accessory bracket that cunningly attaches to the Rixen Kaul bar bag.
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The first part to Weymouth is here just over 200 miles and just over a mile of ascent.
From St Malo to the port of Denia the route is here just under a 1000 miles and well over 5 miles of climbing 🙂
Denia to the port of Tarifa for Morocco is another 500 miles and 4 miles of climbing.
Will be interesting to see how far I get especially as some days I struggle to get over Elizabeth Way bridge 🙁
And here are the biking gpx files mapped using Adze:-
Cycling_part_of_Africa_2016
and here is all the travel by internal combustion engine :-
The motorised bit of Africa 2016
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