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not resolvedFor rather convoluted reasons, I have a free pass for lengthy ride as long as it ends in a place called Lochanhead near Dumfries. I immediately thought of doing trying it off road as much as possible and the SUW goes a fair bit of my journey. I’m going to compromise by starting from Gala station as opposed to home (Musselburgh).
Question is, how rideable is the SUW and would I be better on the gravel hack or the cart horse MTB? Looking to do this in a day.
SUW lumpy. Path mainly to walk. Roads are deserted mainly. Up Granites, down to Inners Over Paddyslacks, right at Gordon Arms, beautiful route to Moffat. Via St Mary’s Loch. Watch out for sheep on road at Grey Mares Tail. gorgeous.
Oooft I see why this has been mooted as Google sends the brave cyclist beyond Over Phawhope Bothy, on the southern uplands way to the source of the Ettrick and beyond.
Ye might be pushing.
I hear that some of it is not cycleable at all. So some pushing for sure. But even if you get benighted that surely will be fun adventure.
As @gembo says the road are quiet and lovely but definitely not very adventurous.
Thanks all. My inner adventurer has conceded on this, mainly having watched a video of two guys riding the SUW on fat bikes. Well worth a watch - https://youtu.be/GHHKJ1HOnlY Chapeau to them for getting as far as they did and +1 for the ‘wee bottle of vino’ as recovery product.
Having just this week been reunited with my road bike after a very long service, the route by St Mary’s Loch is now on the slate.
There is a series with a guy walking the route https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00136vp - no longer on iPlayer but it might become available again if it's repeated on TV. Plus you'll find videos from people on Youtube or have a look at geograph for photos along the route.
There is also the Romans and Reivers route which seems to mainly use forest tracks further south to get to Moffat, but you'd need to start from Hawick to begin with: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11141946
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