Cycling out of London Heathrow??
01-03-18, 04:23 PM
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Cycling out of London Heathrow??
Starting on this year's tour plans and we are thinking bof flying to London. Then head south to Poole to catch a ferry.
Wondering if anyone here has and somewhat current info about riding out of the airport to points south?
I have also post at Crazy Guy.
Thanks!
Wondering if anyone here has and somewhat current info about riding out of the airport to points south?
I have also post at Crazy Guy.
Thanks!
01-03-18, 08:03 PM
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Bike routes in and out of Heathrow: https://www.heathrow.com/file_source...ycle-paths.pdf
01-03-18, 11:46 PM
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Thank you very much for that Ray, that's a great little resource! Saved it as that could be very useful one day.
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Bike routes in and out of Heathrow: https://www.heathrow.com/file_source...ycle-paths.pdf
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Thanks Raybo.
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If you go to this page, and scroll to right near the bottom, there's a section called "Cycling to Heathrow -- 2012". It is 5 years old, but it might help.
It starts with a list of links (which I haven't checked recently, sorry), and then several paragraphs of comments from what we experienced or heard.
Machka - 2012 Round the World Tour
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It starts with a list of links (which I haven't checked recently, sorry), and then several paragraphs of comments from what we experienced or heard.
Machka - 2012 Round the World Tour
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I cycled north FROM Poole in July of 2016 after taking the ferry from Cherbourg, France. Might be useful to know there is a fenced-in 24 hour parking area immediately adjacent to the ferry landing where one can easily pitch a tent. Hot showers and modern restrooms on site. My particular ferry landed at 10pm so this secure adjacent camping spot on arrival was a most welcome surprise.
There is a bicycle trail running north a fair distance out of Poole, a converted railway bed. Other than that, if ya ain't rode England before many of the roads can be holy terrors to ride; a way-overloaded infrastructure and the roads hemmed in right up to the fog stripe by stone walls or dense hedges.
I expect you can get much cogent advice from the referenced forums but were I flying into Heathrow with a bicycle, I'd seriously look into the prospects of taking the bike, still boxed if necessary, on the Underground and/or a train or bus to some more rural area to commence riding.
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There is a bicycle trail running north a fair distance out of Poole, a converted railway bed. Other than that, if ya ain't rode England before many of the roads can be holy terrors to ride; a way-overloaded infrastructure and the roads hemmed in right up to the fog stripe by stone walls or dense hedges.
I expect you can get much cogent advice from the referenced forums but were I flying into Heathrow with a bicycle, I'd seriously look into the prospects of taking the bike, still boxed if necessary, on the Underground and/or a train or bus to some more rural area to commence riding.
Mike
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Here's the link to Cycling UK Forum (formerly known as CTC): https://forum.cyclinguk.org
