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Dave went cycling
June 21, 2026 at 09:26
Kirkpatrick C2C - Day 5 - Melrose - Eyemouth
More sunshine. More quiet roads. More hills. I don’t think there’s any prolonged flats on this entire route, but if you accept the peaks and troughs it’s just wonderful. It’s hard work on a fully laden tourer but it allows you to take the ride at the pace it deserves.…
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Dave went cycling
June 19, 2026 at 08:36
Kirkpatrick C2C Day 3 - Dumfries - Newcastleton
It rained all day. Again. Didn’t start too well with a puncture before we’d even left Dumfries. Relatively flat start, getting a few miles in along the railway path out of Dumfries (a nice warm up). Lockerbie was a welcome lunch stop in which we huddled in an archway to…
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Dave went cycling
June 18, 2026 at 08:30
Kirkpatrick C2C Day 2 - Newton Stewart - Dumfries
Monsoon. All day. It was biblical. Our longest day in the bike, certainly memorable. Lots of hills, which usually means sweeping descents, except the foot deep puddles at the bottom of the descent meant you could never get any momentum going on the next climb. A real grind of a…
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Dave went cycling
June 17, 2026 at 12:19
Kirkpatrick C2C day 1. Stranraer - Newton Stewart.
Having taken a 4-train extravaganza to reach Stranraer from Newcastle we had a half day of cycling to reach Newton Stewart. A lot of beautiful coastline and rocky outcrops. Very undulating and one particularly steep climb just outside of Stranraer. Ends nicely riding along the river to arrive in Newton…
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Dave went for a bike ride
April 24, 2025 at 08:20
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