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resolvedSome friends are interested in cycling the John Muir way from Dunbar to North Berwick. Would be a group of us with several kids and a mix of bike types.
Does anyone know the 'green' route as marked here http://johnmuirway.org/route/north-berwick-dunbar (which, I think?) is the same as the red route on the downloadable pdf)
is suitable for road bikes/ our tandem?
There are some steep hills, and at one point you have go on a little bridge over a ford (NT 6075 7795) but it is cyclable so no worries there.
The rest is on metalled roads apart from "Becky's Strip' the bit the you get onto after Whitekirk (NT 5892 8194). It's basically a path over a field. There was a plan to make it into a proper bike path a couple of years back but it was shot down by some locals and horse riders who thought it would spoil the ambience or something. Anyway, I think it was surfaced with some acceptable material, but not having actually ridden it I'm not sure about the suitability for your bikes.
Have a look at and post your query on the Dunbar Cycling Group's facebook page, others there will have better knowledge than I.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2138473
Rideable but not ideal for smooth/narrow tyres.
Check the date on the photo: 2010. I think it may have been upgraded a touch since then but keeping the country track ambience.
This this shows my own woeful ignorance of my local cycling tracks!
I suppose the other option would be to invest in some cyclocross tyres - anyone have some 24" ones I could borrow? or for sale?
3 months ago -
Or push as required
Nice route really
Okay, I guess they haven't surfaced it at all. I was reading through articles in the local rag about this issue, and the last word (March 2014) was that the landowner was having second thoughts about letting the work go ahead.
Alternatively you can carry on along the road through Whitekirk. It carries you in roughly the same direction.
"cyclocross tyres - anyone have some 24" ones I could borrow? or for sale?"
Dunno about CX but MTB tyres readily available in 24". In fact I think I have some (somewhere) from my son's MTB, which is now sporting road/touring tyres instead..
Might these do the trick?
Or these?
http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Raleigh-Ryder-Cycle-Tyre_52731.htm?sku=143302
From this signpost I would follow the directions towards East Linton and pick up the route again either there or as paulmilne suggests head back towards Whitekirk to pick up the road through Binning Wood.
Sign near Becky's Strip by Tom Orr, on Flickr
@crowriver - thanks. definitely better price than the Kendas, but i'd need to get someone else to tell me if those are narrow enough for the wheels.
@cyclingmollie and everyone else - many thanks!!
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