Our bicycles

Beryl is riding on her Liv road bike. To help her up the hills, Julian has installed a 32 rear cassette which required a new long cage derailleur.

For luggage, Beryl has an Ortleib seat pack which has a capacity of 16.5 litres. Beryl is restricting herself to 2 kg of luggage – essentially no more than one plus a spare of cycling and day wear plus cycling shoes and sandals. “The less I take, the less there is to take up the hills.”

Julian is riding his Dawes Super Galaxy tourer. This machine required new chain, cassette, and jockey wheels. The brakes and brake levers were replaced about a year ago. Otherwise, it is much the same bike that Julian has cycled to the top of Mont Ventoux.

For luggage, Julian has two rear panniers. One contains clothes and shoes. The other will hold locks, tools, spare cables, chargers etc.

We are using Wahoo GPS devices for route finding and statistics gathering.