Pennine Bridleway

[Ben98]

So, AdMan and I are looking to do the Pennine bridalway between Christmas and new year. Has anyone done it and can comment on the terrain and there experiences? Is 2days achievable?
Thanks
Ben

[AdMan]

Or do part of it and include the settle loop?

[Zippy]

http://www.ride7ds.com/peakspennines.html

Sounds like Nick Craig did it in a day, so 2 should be OK ;-)

[BenS]

I was thinking about doing the very same thing, but having not ridden very much of it I can not comment.

With the current weather forecast South to North is definitely the way to go!

[Blackhound]

The record is 26 hours 32 minutes I believe so I would suggest 2 days is a bit of a challenge in winter. Though that might be just what you want;-)

I can recall Nick Craig doing the Southern section up to the MTL area, not sure exactly where he finished. His time was around 12 hours.

http://www.selfsupporteduk.net/routes/p ... ayE2E.html

[slarge]

Did the PBW double earlier this year - around 26 hours for the 200 miles. The bottom half is a good ride and easily doable in a long day. Haven't done the north section but if it like the southern section will also be good riding. The weather will make it harder though. I would aim for a drier spell as the route is quite heavy on brake pads in the wet. Good luck with it!

[JohnClimber]

Has anyone found a link to the GPX for the whole route as yet?

If yes please post it here, cheers.

I've searched but only found southern bits and the MTL but not the northern end to Kirkby Steven

[Ben98]

Looks like we can't be bothered doing all of it, so we are gonna do here (Haworth) to ribblehead, stay the night at ribblehead then cycle back the same way. This is mostly just a bit of a new kit test before there and back :)

[ianfitz]

I've got a gpx that someone ian? Has shared on a skydrive. Worth a search

[Mike]

Ben I did it in oct as part of my ride up to my girlfriends in the lakes. I rode most of it to dent area before leaving it. I have wet weather and it was hard going so much dirt n grit in the gears. There r plenty of overnight bivy spots all along the route. Its a great route and ill defo do it again in the summer when the days r longer. Its fairly easy to follow the route except for a few areas where it wasn't so clear. I think it would be hard this time of yr to do it in two n alot of night riding.

[JohnClimber]

Anyone found the full route GPX as yet?

I can't see it anywhere

The only one I've found only goes up to the MTL, but northwards after that
http://www.gps-routes.co.uk/routes/home ... ycle-route

[Blackhound]

Singletrack mag did a gpx for the Northern section maybe a year or so ago, say issue 70 to 75. Should be available to subscribers. I am not at home and can't check the info.

[Chew]

I have all of route in bits somewhere.

PM me your email and i'll send them over (I may even stitch them together)

[JohnClimber]

Cheers Chew

PM on route

[Chew]

Cant find my copy, but link to all of the sections

http://holmfirthbikes.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... y-gpx.html

[JohnClimber]

While the BBC have been sending your their Christmas evening rubbish as normal i've been having a play with the above GPX's and putting them onto one South to North route using the rules set out here

http://www.selfsupporteduk.net/routes/p ... ayE2E.html

Please note this was done on an out of date version of Memory Map and if you use it it is your fault if you get lost and or die on route, I've had one to many beers so if you believe it it's your fault.

I will use this myself as a guide but will ensure I always take maps as of course should you.

On google maps here for you to zoom in
http://www.justgoride.co.uk/Content/Rou ... px?id=4179

Unfortunalty I can't attach the GPX's to this post, Stu how can I do it as it says "The extension gpx in not allowed"

[JohnClimber]

And the same for this GPX should only be used as a very rough guide

Here is the North to South route

http://www.justgoride.co.uk/Content/Rou ... px?id=4178

If I can't upload them please pm me with your email address and I'll send you the GPX's over

[Bearbonesnorm]

Unfortunalty I can't attach the GPX's to this post, Stu how can I do it as it says "The extension gpx in not allowed"

I've checked the forum settings and can't see anything that would cause this ... but there's no mention of GPX files at all, so I can only assume the forum doesn't recognise them, sorry.

[johnnystorm]

Would it work if you changed the .gpx to .txt or saved it as such in notepad etc. Perhaps the forum is happier with .txt? Should be able to download that and change it back to .gpx? I'm uploading this years BB200 as a test.....

/scratch that .txt not allowed either.