[QUOTE 5563153, member: 9609"]I love your area - what a joy it must be to ride there, very jealous.[/QUOTE]
I am indeed very lucky to have so many beautiful routes, most of which are very rural with little traffic (although they are spoiled by the boy racer brigade who use them as race tracks).
The reason I've taken to riding an old mountain bike recently in preference to my road bikes is that it opens up all the gravel paths and laneways like most of yesterday's ride as I increasingly like to get to really peaceful places with no idiots trying to powerslide ancient BMWs around blind corners.