not resolvedI'm never sure which forum to put these things in but it's a question so ...
We (cycling Dumfries, which is basically me) have been approached by the Eden Festival (near Moffat) to see if we wanted to do something bikey during the festival. They were wondering about whether people might like to cycle to and from the festival and the station. This is easy enough from Lockerbie but a bit of a b*r from Dumfries, so I thought we might either offer guided rides (well A guided ride) or at the least a route for people to follow.
The question is - do you think anyone would actually be up for doing this? It means lugging camping equipment on the bike as well as doing battle with the delights of booking your bike on the train. I'm not really a festival goer or much of a camper so I can't really tell whether this is something there'll be much call for, but I thought CCE would be the place to ask ... not particularly whether any of you are planning on doing it yourselves - but if you were to go to the Eden festival (or any other festival that was 14-odd miles from a station) would you go by train + bike, or train + bus (and good luck with that one) or just say sod it and go by car like a normal person? If we can find a nice route it's likely to be a pleasant summer evening ride - but not for someone who's cycling experience up to then has been in the malarial flatlands of London (as I discovered when I took my friend out for short 5.5 mile run down to the shop and he had to walk up the first hill of about 17...)
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