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| xeneize | 13 Nov 12:38 |
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Joined: 21 Jun 2011 Posts: 4 Bike: | Hi Im planning to go cycling from MK to London through the Grand Union Canal has somebody done this route? Do you need any special permit for cycling in the Canal? And, after that, the key question, is it possible to reach London through the Canal route, or is there any point where you cant continue? Thank you |
herbie 
| 13 Nov 12:41 |
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Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Posts: 98 Bike: My Profile | http://www.cycle-route.com/forum/General-Chat-Grand-Union-Canal-Thread-264.html |
| My Latest Route: Sep 2012 Birmingham to Worcestor Via Canal | |
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herbie
| 13 Nov 13:33 |
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Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Posts: 98 Bike: My Profile | xeneize try this as well http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/cycling-from-birmingham-to-london/ |
| My Latest Route: Sep 2012 Birmingham to Worcestor Via Canal | |
| SouT16 | 18 Nov 18:54 |
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Joined: 01 Dec 2012 Posts: 2 Bike: | Hi. I cycled from Birmingham to London earlier this year. No permits are needed and you can get quite into he heart of London without even touching tyre onto a road. Towpaths are excellent for the entirety of what you are planning |
| SouT16 | 18 Nov 19:23 |
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Joined: 01 Dec 2012 Posts: 2 Bike: | Hi. A friend and myself did this over 3 days during be bank holiday weekend in August. Managed it on fairly budget hard tail MTB's with rear panniers for tools,spares and changes of clothes. Chose 3 days (sensibly) as we did little/no training before this. He bikes both ran schwable marathon MTB tyres (with the built in puncture protection layer) and slime inner tubes. Neither of us got a puncture all trip. I traced the beginning of the GUC to underneath spaghetti junction near the centre of Birmingham. This worked well for us as we was starting in ward end (2-3 mile away) plus it was quite interesting seeing spaghetti junction from canal level underneath. We did 57.6 miles on day 1 and stopped in a small place called Weedon Bec - where my friend was living at the time so was an ideal target for us. Day 2 we set out fairly early after the obligatory bacon sarnie and did 57.6 miles when we stopped in the premier inn Hemel Hempstead. There wasn't anywhere designated for the bikes but we had called in advance and checked and they allowed us to store them in a secure room at the back of their office (covered in mud too!) Decent dinner, great night sleep, bit of a lie in and then wetherspoon breakfast the following morning... Day 3 Hemel to London- 40.3 miles takin us to 155 miles in 3 days. Got off the canal near to centre of london and cycled the streets to Euston station. Then the express train back to Birmingham international. Great weekend would recommend it to anyone and everyone. All we said we would do to improve it is take a portable gas burner and kettle to have a cuppa on our rest breaks. |
| xeneize | 17 Dec 11:39 |
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Joined: 21 Jun 2011 Posts: 4 Bike: | Hi Sorry for not updating this I managed to go to Tring under rubbish weather conditions and lot of mud (i had to stop twice to remove the mud from the bike) After Tring, the path looked much better but i decided to return to MK as it was very late Does anybody know how is the path from Tring to London? Is it still muddy or is it better than the leighton buzzard-tring section? Thanks |
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