Andrew_Culture
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I'll be Peterborough this weekend with my wreck of a bike, does anyone fancy popping out for a bimble?
I find it difficult to understand why anyone would want to cycle around Peterborough when Rutland is only 15 miles to the NW as the crow flies with beautiful cycling country and very little traffic. I know everyone is different and there are even those who enjoy cycling around London, but surely mainly traffic free country lanes with no potholes, polite drivers and great cafe stops must be a tiny bit inviting?I'm in Peterborough this weekend
In fact I have been getting lost around here all week, unfortunately family duties on Sat/sun and back to south coast Monday. There is some nice cycling round here and will bring the bike up again even though it does mean I have to pedal across London.
Well, Peterborough has some lanes/tracks with no motorists and I expect there are some good cafe stops if you know where they are (I've not found them yet). Rutland may be only 15 miles as the crow flies, but it's over 20 by road and those are roads which are abused as rat-runs into the back of Bretton and roads full of parked cars either side of Stamford centre. That's not really much fun unless you're into extreme cycling, is it, honestly?I find it difficult to understand why anyone would want to cycle around Peterborough when Rutland is only 15 miles to the NW as the crow flies with beautiful cycling country and very little traffic. I know everyone is different and there are even those who enjoy cycling around London, but surely mainly traffic free country lanes with no potholes, polite drivers and great cafe stops must be a tiny bit inviting?
Have you met TF?....... That's not really much fun unless you're into extreme cycling, is it, honestly?
There are quiet lanes within 10 miles to the west of Peterborough, I have never cycled through the centre of Stamford and unlikely to ever do so, why would I?Well, Peterborough has some lanes/tracks with no motorists and I expect there are some good cafe stops if you know where they are (I've not found them yet). Rutland may be only 15 miles as the crow flies, but it's over 20 by road and those are roads which are abused as rat-runs into the back of Bretton and roads full of parked cars either side of Stamford centre. That's not really much fun unless you're into extreme cycling, is it, honestly?
Because it's the shortest route to Rutland? 10 miles to the west of Peterborough is the glorious "rose of the shires" Northamptonshire, not Rutland.There are quiet lanes within 10 miles to the west of Peterborough, I have never cycled through the centre of Stamford and unlikely to ever do so, why would I?
NAFAIK yet.Have you met TF?
Well I went out to market Deeping and Stamford the other day, it was getting back through Peterborough that is the problem. All the roads look the same and the cycle ways are badly signed.I find it difficult to understand why anyone would want to cycle around Peterborough when Rutland is only 15 miles to the NW as the crow flies with beautiful cycling country and very little traffic. I know everyone is different and there are even those who enjoy cycling around London, but surely mainly traffic free country lanes with no potholes, polite drivers and great cafe stops must be a tiny bit inviting?
How was it? (I'm planning a Lynn-Long Sutton-Boston-Spalding-Wisbech-Lynn in a couple of weeks, so any route news might be useful!)Today I went through the fens to Long Sutton.
Perhaps the lack of a McDonalds is putting them off?I find it difficult to understand why anyone would want to cycle around Peterborough when Rutland is only 15 miles to the NW as the crow flies with beautiful cycling country and very little traffic. I know everyone is different and there are even those who enjoy cycling around London, but surely mainly traffic free country lanes with no potholes, polite drivers and great cafe stops must be a tiny bit inviting?