Just shows the difference a few miles can make, I use NCR75 to get to work in West Lothian (prob about 7 miles on the cycle path) and find it a much better surface than the road, and apart from a couple of sections where I meet some dog walkers I rairly see anyone so can "bomb" along (however my "bomb" is more than likely slightly slower than yours

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This was not the NCR but this has reminded me, I was out for a walk yesterday lunchtime from work and a couple of council workers were out emptying the dog poo bins. One of them came up to me and asked me if I had seen any glass on the path I had come along as they had had some reported and he could not find it and was a worried the person reporting it had told him the wrong place!! Fair play to him I thought.