Do you have a Fat Bike?
If not don't worry all off road bikes are welcome, there's a route for you, but you will need an Ordnance Survey Explorer 285 map and the skills to follow it too meet up at different spots.
This one is on the same day at the other winter events meet up at noon to 1pm on Sat Dec 15th for a beach and woodland bivi via a pub stop or a take a way & pub visit.
Meeting up at Heatons Bridge Inn, 2 Heatons Bridge Road, Scarisbrick, L40 8JG
If you can ride in please do, but we do have the permission to park at the pub, but please note, when looking at the pub please park between the white lines as close to the pub as you can, because if you park elsewhere you risk getting blocked in by the Sunday fishermen.
The plan is simple pub meet (hot food snacks 12 until 2pm), leave pub, tarmac on quiet lanes to start, gravel roads, cycle paths, sand dunes and beach riding and a woodland bivi, followed by beach riding, cycle lanes, a very short busy road section before a park and then the canal, gravel roads then back lanes to the pub again for a beer before we head home.
The aim is to arrive back at the pub around 12 noon on Sunday where the cars are parked around noon for a pint (as a thanks for using their car park).
Meeting point to be sorted by numbers interested in coming.
What to expect:
~50k around coastal flat lands
Pub start, ice cream on Southport Pier, Pub or take away, camping in very sheltered woodlands, but a night time walk on to the beach to watch the star (fingers crossed). No fires. lights essential.
Social pace at the speed of the slowest.
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, but I'll come anyway. Give me an excuse to try some bikepacking on the fat bike as I've never used it for that before.
