First UK Ride

[Octet]

I finally did it, it's taken me almost a year but I've finally gotten out and done my first proper UK bicycle ride since moving to the mainland!

It was only a short 20 mile route from March to Friday Bridge and back but even so, I'm back in the game! Admittedly the route I took could have done with a mountain bike, especially going along the path next to HMP Whitemoor and given the weather.

Here's a photograph none the less, it certainly won't win any awards, but here you go.

Note the orange post-it note wrapped in a sandwich bag and taped to the handlebars. This had my supposed route planned out... still got a little lost.

 

[ianrauk]

Where were you living before?

 

[Octet]

Where were you living before?

Guernsey, so I used to do a lot of cycling there. A very different environment though, hilly and coastal compared to the flatness of the Fens.

 

[ianrauk]

Yes I can imagine. And don't forget those blasted Fens headwinds which seem to plague you which ever way you travel.

 

[Octet]

Yes I can imagine. And don't forget those blasted Fens headwinds which seem to plague you which ever way you travel.

It was surprisingly calm, with the exception of going up one side of a field I seemed to be pretty lucky... although I've probably jinxed it now.

 

[mjr]

I've downgraded that blasted rough track near Whitemoor enough that cycle.travel doesn't use it for me any more

Heading for Friday Bridge means you missed another doozy of a half gone road into Elm on NCR 63

Well done. The ride south from March to Chatteris and Ely is busier but offers some small hills

 

[srw]

Well done. The ride south from March to Chatteris and Ely is busier but offers some small hills

Or as the rest of us call them, speed humps.



(I must be the only person whose only bike ride in the fens ever was hilly. I rode on my Brompton up from Ely railway station to the cathedral.)

 

[Mark1978]

Welcome to the Fens!