Coventry transport museum?

[Drago]

Semi-related, has anyone ever cycled around the ring road? I drove it but didn't have my bike there. It struck me as either really fun for lap training or really terrifying on a bike, I couldn't decide which.

It's terrifying in a car!

 

[Blue Hills]

PS -while I'm in Coventry, anything else worth seeing/experiencing, other than the blitzed cathedral?

 

[Drago]

PS -while I'm in Coventry, anything else worth seeing/experiencing, other than the blitzed cathedral?

According to Harry Hill, Coventry Market is worth a look.

 

[Milkfloat]

Semi-related, has anyone ever cycled around the ring road? I drove it but didn't have my bike there. It struck me as either really fun for lap training or really terrifying on a bike, I couldn't decide which.

On on Sky rides with the kids. I technically go on it at other times, but only on a roundabout.

 

[Chris S]

I spent an hour or two there when I had a flight rescheduled. There were lots of cars from my youth and I found it quite enjoyable. Younger people might get bored though.

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Don't usethe ring road you will die, especially as the lanes are reversed, lane 1 to come off at the junction lane 2 to stay on. You'd have to be sat in the outside lane of a dual carriageway to go more than one junction.
Security, take a big lock and leave nothing on your bike.
Other sights, Herbert Art gallery is good.

 

[Milkfloat]

Don't usethe ring road you will die, especially as the lanes are reversed, lane 1 to come off at the junction lane 2 to stay on. You'd have to be sat in the outside lane of a dual carriageway to go more than one junction.

That's the whole point. The idea is that you only use the inside lane for exiting and entering the ring road, all other times you stay in the outside lane.

Bonus fact - the ring road was designed so that if we decided to switch to right side driving, it could be done really easily.

 

[ColinJ]

I wouldn't cycle on the ring road ... There are places where traffic from the right crosses traffic from the left and vice versa!

PS -while I'm in Coventry, anything else worth seeing/experiencing, other than the blitzed cathedral?

I know you are interested in old churches so you must nip round the corner from the old and new cathedrals to Holy Trinity, the second of Coventry's historic 'three spires'. They are all very close to the transport museum.

 

[marknotgeorge]

There's also the street where slabs of steel mark where businesses used to be before the blitz.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

That's the whole point. The idea is that you only use the inside lane for exiting and entering the ring road, all other times you stay in the outside lane.

Bonus fact - the ring road was designed so that if we decided to switch to right side driving, it could be done really easily.

Yes but very few drivers do that, some don't understand thats how you are supposed to drive it, sitting in the outside lane at the forty mph speed limit will sometimes have drivers passing your inside, a lot of them upset with you doing forty in the outside lane.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Semi-related, has anyone ever cycled around the ring road? I drove it but didn't have my bike there. It struck me as either really fun for lap training or really terrifying on a bike, I couldn't decide which.

Don't usethe ring road you will die, especially as the lanes are reversed, lane 1 to come off at the junction lane 2 to stay on. You'd have to be sat in the outside lane of a dual carriageway to go more than one junction.
Security, take a big lock and leave nothing on your bike.
Other sights, Herbert Art gallery is good.

Last time I rode the ring road was 2010, I'm now living on the outskirts of Coventry, Holbrooks, and I'm rarely in the centre on my bike. In the 1980's I was living just outside the centre in Earlsdon and working in Stoke, the section between the top of New Union Street and the London Road island was on my commute to work and my ride home would include the slip road system between the London Road island and New Union Street, some times I would do the whole section between the London Road island and the Butts turn off. It was a little quieter then and the drivers attitude was a little different, its busier now and the driver are a bit more aggressive.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

PS -while I'm in Coventry, anything else worth seeing/experiencing, other than the blitzed cathedral?

The Museum, The transport Museum and the blitzed cathedral are the main attractions, I think they charge an entrance fee for the the new cathedral, the one they built after the war. If you are interested in archaeology they excavated the original cathedral, the one that Henry the eighth pulled down and last time I was down there you could still see that, just walk from the new cathedral back towards the Cathedral lanes shopping area.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thrust SSC is there, worth the visit on its own.

Plus, Thrust 2?? (the earlier car, that Richard Noble himself drove), as I'm sure it's mentioned in Nobles autobiography - a fantastic book!!!

We went (voluntarily, not 'Sent') to Coventry a few years ago, & stayed in a hotel near the Cathedrals, the Leofric?? (who was Godivas husband, I believe)

 

[TVC]

Plus, Thrust 2?? (the earlier car, that Richard Noble himself drove), as I'm sure it's mentioned in Nobles autobiography - a fantastic book!!!

We went (voluntarily, not 'Sent') to Coventry a few years ago, & stayed in a hotel near the Cathedrals, the Leofric?? (who was Godivas husband, I believe)

Thrust 2 is there as well now? I had better have another visit.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thrust 2 is there as well now? I had better have another visit.

Unless it was just there, when he wrote the book???

Mine's the hardback
21 5-star reviews!!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thrust-Rem...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VQ56JG8GTWJ7DV82331X