Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
As hinted at on my HS2 ride, this is a ride to appreciate a different type of machinery, the time of Windy Miller.
Amongst all the current furore about wind turbines, people often forget about the original purpose of wind power, to either raise water or to grind grain. This ride will whet your appetite with a number of interesting windmills, some of which are still in use, whilst others are famous film stars. Although really, it's just an excuse to ride in some lovely Buckinghamshire countryside.
This will have more ascending (and descending) than my HS2 ride, but just about all the hills are in the first half, and the second half will be quite genteel, and will drop down around Aylesbury on similar roads as used on one of my Northampton rides last year, and also for my Aylesbury Circular ride of October 2009.
The ride will be about 75-80 miles long, and start and finish at Tring Station, where return tickets from London Euston cost £9.50 with a Network Railcard, and take about 45 minutes.
Amongst all the current furore about wind turbines, people often forget about the original purpose of wind power, to either raise water or to grind grain. This ride will whet your appetite with a number of interesting windmills, some of which are still in use, whilst others are famous film stars. Although really, it's just an excuse to ride in some lovely Buckinghamshire countryside.
This will have more ascending (and descending) than my HS2 ride, but just about all the hills are in the first half, and the second half will be quite genteel, and will drop down around Aylesbury on similar roads as used on one of my Northampton rides last year, and also for my Aylesbury Circular ride of October 2009.
The ride will be about 75-80 miles long, and start and finish at Tring Station, where return tickets from London Euston cost £9.50 with a Network Railcard, and take about 45 minutes.
