Favourite flat roads.

[Moon bunny]

Or mostly flat?
Mine must include the road from Haverthwaite down to Cark and Flookburgh, the famous Rusland Beeches road, and, borderline hilly, the East side of Coniston lake.
So where do you go when you’re fed up with grunting, groaning and gasping?

 

[Drago]

Denton Road at Yardley Chase. So flat and straight they used to land Lysanders on it during the war

 

[Tail End Charlie]

The loop around Lake Vyrnwy in North Wales is great. Bit of a gasper to get there though.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This is a fairly flat quiet lane within an hour of the house.

 

[Cathryn]

The Woodford Valley between Amesbury and Salisbury! Not ‘flat’ but gently rolling and delicious.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

One flat road that has stuck in my mind since first riding it is the one through the Somme Valley. Unfortunately not one I can ride every day but I do ride it whenever I am in the area.

 

[UphillSlowly]

The loop around Lake Vyrnwy in North Wales is great. Bit of a gasper to get there though.

It's great. I agree

 

[craigwend]

I live in the flat bit of East Yorkshire, which as a whole is fairly flat... So most of them

See photo from today...

 

[UphillSlowly]

There are not many flat bits of road near to where I live. In fact I live at the top of an 8% hill and the quickest access to the countryside is via Clent hills. But there is a stretch of about 1km on the way home along Bartley Green Reservoir, which has the smoothest tarmac and views across the water. It's the very last bit of non-urban scenery and means I almost home.

 

[Ian H]

The geological formation that forms the Blackdown Hills and East Devon Hills (both AONBs) has been described as an 'incised plain' - incised by river valleys, that is, but from a distance looking like a flat elevated area. Once you have winched your way up to about 250-300m above sea-level you can travel for miles in certain directions on quiet straight level roads.
The Somerset Levels are almost an inversion of the Blackdowns - flat almost sea-level moors traversed by ridges of around 100m elevation.
Both yield interesting flat cycling routes, albeit with challenges at start or finish.

 

[ColinJ]

There are a few quiet roads round here which are 'flattish' but they tend to take a lot of climbing to get to so they probably don't count! The valley roads ARE 'flattish' but they are too busy.

My favourite 'flattish' roads in Yorkshire are those that I tackle on my Garforth forum ride. I take my singlespeed bike out on the train and can happily potter about all day out there in one gear.

Garforth route almost pan-flat...

 

[Slick]

I'm not entirely sure we have any round here, but when I find one, it will immediately qualify as my new favourite.

 

[All uphill]

The geological formation that forms the Blackdown Hills and East Devon Hills (both AONBs) has been described as an 'incised plain' - incised by river valleys, that is, but from a distance looking like a flat elevated area. Once you have winched your way up to about 250-300m above sea-level you can travel for miles in certain directions on quiet straight level roads.
The Somerset Levels are almost an inversion of the Blackdowns - flat almost sea-level moors traversed by ridges of around 100m elevation.
Both yield interesting flat cycling routes, albeit with challenges at start or finish.

I'd agree with both of those.

Here's a view from the top of the Blackdowns from November 2021.

And one from the levels. Andersea comes from On the Sea, so called by Dutch engineers draining the area. Now 6 miles from the coast.

 

[slowmotion]

Holland......but it's got winds instead of hills.
France for smooth tarmac.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I live in the flat bit of East Yorkshire, which as a whole is fairly flat... So most of them

A couple of years ago I rode with a friend starting near Newark, up between Doncaster and Scunthorpe, through Selby to York. I don't know the area but it was an absolutely beautiful day, lovely countryside* and flaaaaat.

I don't know if we had a tailwind maybe but we absolutely zoomed through the countryside.

* Except for the bit where we got a bit lost and ended up on an abandoned WWII airfield. That wasn't lovely.