BRIDGE BIKE HIRE
The Original Camel Trail Bike Hire
- Bikes for all ages including - Special Needs
- A full range of Burley Buggies
- Childs Trailer bikes
- Trikes
- Adult Trailer bikes
- Tandems
- Super Comfort Cruise bikes
- Cytech Approved Cycle Mechanics<
- Cycle delivery and pick up service
- 6 Miles of Traffic Free Trails
- Safe Family Cycling
- Open All Year
- Stunning Estuary Views
- Valley Cycle Trails
- Part of Route 3
- The Sustrans National Cycle Route
- Ex Hire Cycles & Accessory sales
Leading the way: We were the UK's first cycle hire company to have
our mechanics trained to the Cytech standards all our cycles are thoroughly
checked and expertly maintained for your safe use by our Cytech qualified
mechanics
The Camel Trail has 16 miles of traffic free cycling along which you can
enjoy a variety of wildlife, flora and forna. The trail covers an area
from Padstow to Wenford Bridge along some of Cornwall's most beautiful
countryside. If you are interested in the local wildlife or forna then
you are sure to enjoy a trip along the Camel Trail.
Upriver looking from Polbrock back to Wadebridge
Five miles to Bodmin, and a further six miles to Wenford
Bridge. This increasingly popular section of the Camel Trail is a delight
year round.
However, springtime with the bluebell roads (GAFF AND UNDERTOWN),
the water meadows full of Iris's and the excellent chance of seeing a
deer or an otter or the flash of a Kingfisher - upstream is the place
to be.
Downstream to Padstow from Wadebridge
The Camel Trail estuary side leading to Padstow is quite
spectacular no matter what time of the year or what state of tide. This
remains the most popular section with Padstow still very much an active
fishing village, with all the hustle bustle and charm associated with
commercial fishing.
Add to this Rick Stein's influence, ferries across to Rock,
speed boat trips, fishing trips and the general ambience of a holiday
town and it is hardly surprising that the majority of the Trail users
head to this pretty and unspoilt village.
Wildlife on the Camel Trail
There is an extraordinary array of wildlife to be appreciated
along the Camel trail. Look for signs of secretive mammals such as fox,
badger, rabbit, deer and rarities like otter and greater horseshoe bat.
Coppiced hazel is the home of the dormouse.
A few wild service trees have sprung up among the oak, spindle and sycamore.
See foxglove, campion, mullein, madder; violets and snowdrops appear as
early as December in some years. Thistle seeds provide food for the goldfinches.
The River Camel supports salmon and trout, dipper and kingfisher; on the
estuary live bass and mullet, curlew and shelduck; an ever increasing
number of little egrets now live alongside the local herons.
The Atlantic Coast Express
In 1846 the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) bought the BWR, the
first shot in a long, hard-fought battle for supremacy between supporters
of broad gauge and standard gauge railways.
In 1899 the line from Wadebridge to Padstow was laid, starting the route
of the Atlantic Coast Express which carried thousands of holiday-makers
to the west country until the line's closure in 1969.
Perhaps the most famous of those travellers was the Poet Laureate Sir
John Betjeman, for whom the railway, the river and the estuary were a
great source of inspiration.
Bridge Bike Hire is a proactive company, we support the
National Cycle Network (Sustrans). The Camel Trail is part of National
Route 3 that forms a 6,500-mile web of cycle ways through out the country.
We have established a links to schools in their activity weeks, which
combine education with cycling, this service is available to other education
outlets.
