Our first bikepacking trip in the UK was a success! We cycled 70 kilometres between Okehampton and Plymouth in Devon, following the National Cycle Network 27. Despite three flat tyres, we still had a great time and learnt a lot!
Music: We Travel from LesFM
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Thanks for posting. Looks a great route, and perfect weather to ride it.
Great video. More on the bikes, what to pack, how you navigate,and plan your ride etc.👍
I've just happened across your channel. I'm entranced! I have family living in Plymouth, and family living to the east of Okehampton. Both brothers of mine and their families. I grew up in Toronto (and area) after emigrating in the late fifties from London, and the rest of the family returned to the UK some twenty years later, but being the brash North American, I stayed here, but often visited and did work sojourns in the UK (mostly London). When I was in the UK last, I cycled most of the route you've taken in this vid, up from Plymouth and back down again. It was only in the last two years or so that a younger brother had moved to east of Okehampton, and I've been tempted by the thought of doing the trail from near Meldon down to Plymouth, and more. Even in my Seventies, I'm an incurable distance cyclist, and my choice of trails, when offered, are like yours. There's some great ones in North Am, but nothing like what the UK offers.
Thank you so much for this, and your Exmouth to Budleigh one, which I always relished doing. In my past trips to that part of the country, I'd done many from the Taunton area where yet another brother was living up in the Blackdown Hills, my father was in Wellington, and aunt and uncle in North Somerset.
It's gorgeous cycling country, and you're doing it so well.