- Location
- Inside my skull
Cycle routes - how do you find yours?
- Thread starter Pduk
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Hmm, you sure you can zoom down to approx 1:1500 in OS map mode?
- Location
- Inside my skull
Do not have a subscription, just the free to use landranger mapping having bought the printed ones
Selected road cycling but its as the crow flies.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Subscription it’ll follow tracks , roads etc
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Maybe not, but even forecasts a few hours ahead still struggle to predict the exact timing and effect of sea breezes and land breezes.
- Location
- Inside my skull
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I'm not. I'm not the one planning rides based on the forecast wind and risking overextending myself if the sea breeze comes early and makes it blow 180° ̇to forecast!
Play it safe and be ready to ride in awful weather or wait it out.
- Location
- Inside my skull
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
The clue's in the name 🤣🤣🤣
- Location
- Inside my skull
Sea breezes don’t affect the one way routes I ride. I am hardly likely to over exert myself over a few hours given I ride audax. I’ve yet to see a forecast for strong winds in one direction change to 180 degrees the other direction in the 3-4 hours I am riding, if it wasn’t forecast at the start of the ride. It’s a good way for riding with a tailwind the whole way. You ought to try it.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
My normal ride has a strange feature in that wind is a much bigger factor in one direction that the other
One way is along a sheltered canal and teh trees and hills - and in some cases factories - tend to shelter the path from the wind
but the route lack is along another canal that is wide and closer to the Mersey
and hence is much more affected by the wind
Hence choice of road can be afffected by wind strength and direction quite a lot
One way is along a sheltered canal and teh trees and hills - and in some cases factories - tend to shelter the path from the wind
but the route lack is along another canal that is wide and closer to the Mersey
and hence is much more affected by the wind
Hence choice of road can be afffected by wind strength and direction quite a lot
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
In my former serious cycling days, head put into wind, always. That dictated the initial direction, then wherever my wheel took me.
No plan, but inevitably you do start to follow well trodden routes after a while
No plan, but inevitably you do start to follow well trodden routes after a while
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Yeah, but it wasn't you that asked the question, which is what made your suggestion bad advice, even if it works for you. It's best to bear in mind @ColinJ's point that the wind may turn.
You should ride in the fens more.
Nah, it's more fun to try to ride a loop and turn when the wind turns even if not as forecast. A few years back, I rode 85 miles of 100 with a tail wind. Very unlikely to do that with a train assist, as there's only one line southwards here and changing to westwards at the first junction basically requires reservations.
