Hi from a (homesick) Brit Woman in the US!

[BritAbroadUSA1]

Greetings from America’s east coast! I found the forum whilst looking for a guided cycling holiday back home (I call West Sussex home still); and come back every year to visit friends & fam in Oxford and Cambridge too.

I’d love to find some people to ride with when I visit, and hope to move home in the next year or so. I know... many of you will wonder why - but home is home! My ideal ride would be around the South Downs, stopping at a pub or three (see- still British ; )

I ride a Trek hybrid as often as possible (but really want a Colnago...) for as far as possible. A quick 10 mile ride before work is a warm up, then weekends I love to set off early and do 30-40 miles. I do organized rides for charity and my longest last year was 56 miles from Connecticut to Massachusetts. Mostly for the love of riding, but also to stay fit and healthy.

If anyone has ideas about good cycling holidays in England, or great organized rides /groups I could join, please give me a shout - and happy riding - I’m so jealous of you with spring right around the corner for some beautiful riding : )

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Hi and welcome! I spend a lot of time in the US too, but Georgia where the heat and humidity are less conducive to riding.

On how you'd go about finding organised rides in a particular area... I do cycle with a group but it wasn't organised, it happened fairly organically. I was out solo on a nice day when I stopped at a country pub, there they were and they asked me where I was off to, and we ended up heading the same way. But I gather that's how many people end up in little social groups, you just bump into people at pubs and cafes. And cyclists can be a chatty lot so they aren't shy of saying hello and asking where you're off to.

Plenty of help here, enjoy!

 

[Jody]

 

[tom73]

 

[Sharky]

Welcome.
Bring some sunshine back with you next time you visit Sussex and send some over to Kent.

 

[welsh dragon]

Hello and welcome. If you were here now you wouldn't be jealous. It hasn't stopped raining since November. .

 

[midlife]

Welcome, just out of curiosity where are you on the east coast?

 

[BritAbroadUSA1]

Hi and welcome! I spend a lot of time in the US too, but Georgia where the heat and humidity are less conducive to riding.

On how you'd go about finding organised rides in a particular area... I do cycle with a group but it wasn't organised, it happened fairly organically. I was out solo on a nice day when I stopped at a country pub, there they were and they asked me where I was off to, and we ended up heading the same way. But I gather that's how many people end up in little social groups, you just bump into people at pubs and cafes. And cyclists can be a chatty lot so they aren't shy of saying hello and asking where you're off to.

Plenty of help here, enjoy!

Thank you for the welcome! Urgh, rather you than me on the heat and humidity. I make myself ride in it, and start no later than 5 a.m. before the brutality hits. We have an amazing trail (former canal) that is mostly shaded for approx 18 miles, and that helps a lot. BUT- as you will know- BUGS.

Great idea about just showing up and finding the chatty Brits, that's actually a lot of why I miss home

 

[BritAbroadUSA1]

Welcome.
Bring some sunshine back with you next time you visit Sussex and send some over to Kent.

Thank you for the welcome! It's a deal. I'll ride and bring it over personally : )

 

[BritAbroadUSA1]

Hello and welcome. If you were here now you wouldn't be jealous. It hasn't stopped raining since November. .

Thank you for the welcome! It better stop for this summer when I get home ) I was in Oxford for 6 weeks the summer before last, and had wall to wall sunshine the whole time *faints* !

 

[BritAbroadUSA1]

Welcome, just out of curiosity where are you on the east coast?

Thank you for the welcome! I'm in CT. Lucky to have a heavily wooded and very green state with a lot of trails and good riding - except that little issue of forever being on the wrong side of the road ... : )

 

[Dayvo]

Welcome, just out of curiosity where are you on the east coast?

Blimey, BritAbroad's very first thread and post on CC and she's got her first stalker! 😳 😉

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Connecticut to Massachusetts is a good clue I'd suggest, and probably all we need to know.

If anyone wants to stalk me on the other hand, I can usually be found most Thursday evenings at 1156 Euclid Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30307.

 

[welsh dragon]

Thank you for the welcome! It better stop for this summer when I get home ) I was in Oxford for 6 weeks the summer before last, and had wall to wall sunshine the whole time *faints* !

Thay was one of the hottest years we have had for a long time.

 

[BritAbroadUSA1]

Blimey, BritAbroad's very first thread and post on CC and she's got her first stalker! 😳 😉

I said Blimey too - out loud to the amusement of the Americans in my team (wellllll, I am a dual citizen so..).

'Tis okay, I can peddle fast- my Strava app tells me so