[foxy mars]

Phew...Thanks for like-minded cyclist's on the forum, I thought the cycling was out of the window. Many thanks to davecatt and daubechie, you sound like two keen cyclists. I was going to include Inverness on my Coast and Castles, but I think it's looking like the Coast and Castles to Edinburgh and then switch back to Dunbar, back to Berwick upon Tweed. Then Wooler, Haltwistle, Carlise, Whitehaven, Barrow in Furness,. Then a train to Arnside and down to Blackpool and and over to Slaidburn, Ripon, York, Hull, Hornsea, Scarborough, Whitby and back home to Teesside.

I've done a draft route on the Memory map and reads out at 750 miles, which is great for a fortnight's cycling doing roughly 50 miles a day. Thankfully I've the Brooks B17 saddle broken in and will be a joy to sit on them lone weary miles. I'm also thinking about getting a Vango Banshee 300 tent so I can stick the bike inside or have the luxury of a 3-man tent for myself.