Cycling day 15: Princetown to Silverton (Again)
I continued to enjoy the fantastic scenery of Dartmoor as I left this morning. There were plenty of sheep laying in the road and Dartmoor ponies crossing randomly. A few […]...
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Cycling day 14: West Taphouse to Princetown
My plan for today had the largest amount of cumulative climbing for any of my days – a little over 1500m – onto Dartmoor. So I was dreading the climbing […]...
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Cycling day 13: Grampound to West Taphouse
I made some major changes to the first part of my route today. From my accomodation out of Grampound for the next couple of miles would have been uphill on […]...
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Cycling day 12: Penzance to Grampound
Much of today I was following another braid of NCR3. In Hayle I stopped at a cycle shop. My chain was squeaking a bit so I purchased some oil and […]...
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Cycling day 11: Marazion to Penzance
If you look at the locations of Marazion and Penzance on a map you’ll see that they’re just a few miles apart from each other. So it’s lucky that today’s […]...
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Cycling day 10: Newquay to Marazion
Today I followed NCR32 and NCR3, and then took a separate cross-country route over to Marazion. On the NCR3 stretch I took a brief diversion of a few miles to […]...
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Cycling day 9: St. Breward to Newquay
Approximately half of today’s distance was planned to follow the Camel Trail, a fantastic traffic-free route following the river Camel where a railway used to run. However I made such […]...
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Cycling day 8: Brandis Corner to St. Breward
Early on in today’s trip I passed over the Derriton Viaduct just outside Holsworthy, whilst following National Cycle Route 3. A Mills type milepost just beyond the viaduct told me […]...
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Cycling day 7: Silverton to Brandis Corner
According to my plans there was approximately 50% more climbing to do today compared with yesterday, and in slightly fewer miles. That said there weren’t any sections of continuous lengthy […]...
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Cycling day 6: Chilthorne Dorner to Silverton
Today’s cycling essentially involved climbing lots of small hills, one large hill, staying on a plateau for many miles, descenting back down a large hill, followed by several small hills […]...
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