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Not a difficult BW to ride (gravelbike), but be aware of vehicles using it!

Ainsdale to Southport is a beltin ride, though you need to navigate around the Training Camp, but there's a tarmac path to do so.

lovely village to stop lots of cafes

A fantastic place to ride with great views

On the pier please be aware they have the old train tracks and if you tyre fits in you end up on the floor

If you don't stop at the roundabout you will miss it

"This sculpture commemorates two double transatlantic flights in the early days of aviation undertaken by the pilot Dick Merrill, via Southport. The Lady Peace ‘Ping Pong’ Flight In 1936, Dick Merrill was looking to do a double transatlantic flight. The object was to fly from New York to England and then back again. He teamed up with a famous broadway entertainer called Harry Richman. Richman not only owned a plane capable of doing this feat, but was prepared to finance the journey to the tune of $360,000, a huge sum in those days. His aircraft was a specially modified monoplane Vultee V-1A, which he named the Lady Peace. However, part of its modifications involved the installation of 41,000 table tennis balls in the wings and tail which supposedly would help with buoyancy if the plane landed in water. This led the press to dub it the ‘Ping Pong Flight’. After making it successfully from New York to Wales, the plane then flew on to London. But the return trip was to prove a problem – they needed a really long runway in order to take off, as they would be carrying a lot of fuel. The largest runway in the country at the time was at Liverpool’s Speke airport, but this was deemed too short.  The solution lay relatively nearby though; the stretch of beach from Ainsdale to Birkdale was deemed ideal. At 3am on the 14th September 1936, on a makeshift runway lit by flares, the plane ran along nearly a mile of beach before successfully taking off. Bad winds and an accidental loss of fuel on the way over the Atlantic meant that they were forced to land 100 miles north of St John, Newfoundland. A week later they finished their trip and arrived in  New York. The Coronation Flight Just eight months later, Dick Merrill was hired to do the same double Atlantic trip again. The abdication of Edward VIII meant there would be a coronation of a new king, George VI, on May 10th 1937. The American press baron, William Randolph Hearst, wanted pictures in his papers before his competitors got them, and this led two Wall Street brokers, knowing of Merrill’s previous flight, to engage him to deliver the goods." Source: https://lancashirepast.com/2018/08/18/early-transatlantic-flights-via-southport/

Same it was nice