@gembo depends - how fast are you on a bike? ;)
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Posted 4 months ago #
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@bakky - not as fast as the peloton. Perhaps i could. Speak to the boys in the balaclavas and get a delimited e bike
Posted 4 months ago # -
@gembo now yer sur-ron yer way!
Posted 4 months ago # -
Anyone got any good ideas re seeing the start in Edinburgh then getting to Melrose before the cavalcade or at least the peloton?
I think you could, but depends on timing.
Edinburgh to Tweedbank is 47 miles, so a TdF rider might cover that in a couple of hours. Assuming a typical Grand Depart time of something in the early afternoon, say 1300, then after watching the start you could rush to Waverley for the train. You have trains every half an hour, and it takes near enough one hour on the train to get to Tweedbank. If you took the 1343 train for example you could be in Tweedbank by 1442. Maybe allow 5 minutes either side for contingency of getting a bike on and off the train and fighting through crowds.
Melrose is only 1.5 miles down the road from Tweedbank, and slightly downhill, so probably 10 minutes' ride.
So depending on the start time and how long you spend watching, and how far you are from Waverley, and how soon the train leaves, you might just make it.
Or watch the depart, then unfold your Brompton and race a few blocks to someone with a car and belt down the A68 and park somewhere in or near Melrose. Leaderfoot viaduct parking (for example) comes up in about 1 hour 10 minutes but might be full of other TdF fans; Newtown St Boswells in about 1h20. Unfold, dash, spectate. Again, you might just have time.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Brompton in pals motor might be the way - i have feeling trains busy that day?
Posted 4 months ago # -
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