WHEN: SATURDAY / SUNDAY 20-21 APRIL
For anyone who is new to riding a bike or hasn't been abroad before on a bike (or at all) or is just a bit unsure what it's all about, here's a chance to have a go.
This will be the third or forth trip like this I have run and past punters (many of whom have become regular 'Wanderers' in their own right) have been polite enough to say they are worthwhile. So don't be shy, everyone has to start somewhere and nobody has ever taken the pee, I'm pleased to say.
What will we do:
(1) Travel over on a reasonably early train, Saturday morning. I will book my tickets tomorrow and ping the times up in a subsequent post.
(2) Probably trundle about in north-eastern France, never more than say 50 to 100 miles from Calais.
(3) Take in all the types of road, a bit of motorway, a bit of peage, main roads and dual carriage ways, lesser and minor roads, some villages and towns. There will be NO deliberate off-roadiing. In short, nothing you could not ride on an R1, a bicycle, a GS or roller skates.
(4) Stay overnight somewhere, maybe the Ibis in St Omer, simply as it's convenient.
Anyone who can just make one day, I will get us all very close to Calais in the late(ish) afternoon so you can get home.
(4) Next day, more of the same in a different direction and a train home mid-to-late afternoon / early evening.
I will provide everyone a route plan and we will use the marker 'drop-off' system, so nobody need feel pressurised to ride faster than they want to.
NUMBER OF BIKES: Subject to the availability of rooms, say eight to ten. This will make quite a large convoy, but hey-ho. If they are only two or three of us, I'll still do it.
IF IT'S WET? We are still going. Ice and snow? Forget it!
Richard
For anyone who is new to riding a bike or hasn't been abroad before on a bike (or at all) or is just a bit unsure what it's all about, here's a chance to have a go.
This will be the third or forth trip like this I have run and past punters (many of whom have become regular 'Wanderers' in their own right) have been polite enough to say they are worthwhile. So don't be shy, everyone has to start somewhere and nobody has ever taken the pee, I'm pleased to say.
What will we do:
(1) Travel over on a reasonably early train, Saturday morning. I will book my tickets tomorrow and ping the times up in a subsequent post.
(2) Probably trundle about in north-eastern France, never more than say 50 to 100 miles from Calais.
(3) Take in all the types of road, a bit of motorway, a bit of peage, main roads and dual carriage ways, lesser and minor roads, some villages and towns. There will be NO deliberate off-roadiing. In short, nothing you could not ride on an R1, a bicycle, a GS or roller skates.
(4) Stay overnight somewhere, maybe the Ibis in St Omer, simply as it's convenient.
Anyone who can just make one day, I will get us all very close to Calais in the late(ish) afternoon so you can get home.
(4) Next day, more of the same in a different direction and a train home mid-to-late afternoon / early evening.
I will provide everyone a route plan and we will use the marker 'drop-off' system, so nobody need feel pressurised to ride faster than they want to.
NUMBER OF BIKES: Subject to the availability of rooms, say eight to ten. This will make quite a large convoy, but hey-ho. If they are only two or three of us, I'll still do it.
IF IT'S WET? We are still going. Ice and snow? Forget it!
Richard