Cycling the West Kernow Way | A 240km Bikepacking Route Around Cornwall

[@Downhillsmoothtarmac]

Great video! Looks a cracking route 👍👍

[@LesCyclopreneurs]

thanks for your video, we will follow your next cycling adventures!

[@CeriMiddleton]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

[@LesCyclopreneurs]

@@CeriMiddleton our pleasure to follow other riders in the world 🙂

[@dillonwild7016]

Hi, looks great. Is there a lot of road riding on this route? Looking at doing this and the Kaw this year. Thanks

[@NELSON3947]

Awesome vid again. You must be one of the first around.

[@CeriMiddleton]

Cheers! Haha yes, the route was only realised about a month ago. I wanted to do the route before it got too muddy!

[@karagray3538]

I’d really like to do some sections of this route with my teenage children over the course of a week (say up to 20 miles a day). Which sections would you suggest please?

[@LostsTVandRadio]

And for any English-speaking visitors from the UK or North America the route is about 150 miles long!!

[@CaptJazzmag]

10:17 The bridle path you mention here should be removed from the official route. Even during a long dry spell it’s a long stretch of sucking bog (over a foot deep in parts) and almost entirely unrideable unless you’re on horseback or a motocross bike.

[@pedallinraw]

Nice trip....what was the time of year....September? 🙂👍🏻

[@CeriMiddleton]

Cheers for watching! Yes I did that in September :)

[@julianhawker7672]

Having ridden it P=raw , I would recommend earlier in the year before the foliage gets too established! Deffo MTB and pack as light as possible (up and down all the time) Also consider bypassing kennack sands...... :-(

[@brianrides2550]

Nice lil adventure dude! quick question, how easy do you think it is to wild camp on this trip? Are they easy enough to find or do you have to put some effort in? Just wanna have an idea as im going to be doing it over 3 days so wild camping 2 nites with a tent! Thanks in advance!

[@CeriMiddleton]

Good question! We wild camped each night, although some areas it was definitely harder to find places...there are still plenty of places though, just maybe allow a little time to find them and potentially go off the route slightly! We kind of had a bit of an idea where we might camp so had a look at satellite images etc before hand. Hope this helps and have a great trip!

[@youtube7076]

@@CeriMiddleton i cant believe how awesome both this question AND answer are ;+) regards from canada!

[@neilmadden4286]

Would I be mad to attempt this in late October on a gravel bike?

[@CeriMiddleton]

Depends how wet and muddy it is! I used a mtb and was very glad about it as there are some rougher sections!

[@Stephen-kf8um]

Do you mountain bikers not clean your bikes till you get home?

[@bikepackingadventure7913]

Why does it seem that cycling U.K. have a cycle route that are on footpaths which are obviously causing conflict and causing confrontation?

[@PeterGold99]

Exactly my point in the Facebook group. I'm doing the route this week but with my own diversions to avoid any conflict.

[@zulueleven8882]

Because they're not, in fact, footpaths? - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKabd2Z9jdFpe8U

[@bikepackingadventure7913]

@@zulueleven8882 That’s not quite what that video shows from cycling U.K. I read it as they have been marked wrong on the map (as footpaths) and should be appropriately designated to which cycling U.K. have put applications in, but can take years. So they are marked on map and on the ground as footpaths but historically are not footpaths and can be used by cyclists. However, If it’s marked as a footpath on the map and signed as a footpath, then the locals will see no further than this labelled fact. So you can understand why the locals and farmers are not happy. Not many locals I’m sure are historians and old map researchers. Maybe local council can inform locals that an application to reinstate correct rights of way on a particular route has been put in. There are many bridleway I’ve ridden on that just suddenly end into a footpath which has always seemed odd to me. Now I know why, it’s probably been marked as a footpath incorrectly.

[@zulueleven8882]

@@bikepackingadventure7913 "So you can understand why the locals and farmers are not happy" - I suspect that some of those people wouldn't be happy with bikes using those paths regardless. The problem of badly recorded rights of way/changing at boundaries for no good reason is well documented, so I think that If cyclists *do* have a legal right to use them, then it would be wrong not to use those routes, just because it might rock the boat a bit.

[@bikepackingadventure7913]

@@zulueleven8882 I agree, however within current society generally, people not happy about what others are doing are being very vocal directly and are not shy about expressing such direct views. We are seeing an increase in verbal and physical assaults against cyclists on the roads just because a cyclists is a cyclist. And this dislike of cyclists overspills into general society. People aren’t shy in telling you how much they hate cyclists. Rights of way could be just one reason for people to have a go and as a lone cyclist, I’m sure its not pleasant to have to stand your ground if confronted by a unhappy farmer or local.