Ride around Herts & Bucks

[Flying Dodo]

A very basic and very direct route from HPC to Harpenden Station!! Here

A quick comment on that route. It's all fine, but a word of warning on the A1081 between St Albans & Harpenden, starting from the Texaco garage shown here. The road surface is extremely rough especially towards the edges. It really is hard work. There is however a combined pedestrian/cycle path on the left hand side which is lovely and smooth. I'll be honest to say that this is about the only time I'll hop off the road and use one of those combined paths, but trust me, your body will appreciate not being shaken to bits on that section of road.



Edit - this comment also applies for the last bit of the actual ride itself as well.

 

[martint235]

A quick comment on that route. It's all fine, but a word of warning on the A1081 between St Albans & Harpenden, starting from the Texaco garage shown here. The road surface is extremely rough especially towards the edges. It really is hard work. There is however a combined pedestrian/cycle path on the left hand side which is lovely and smooth. I'll be honest to say that this is about the only time I'll hop off the road and use one of those combined paths, but trust me, your body will appreciate not being shaken to bits on that section of road.



Edit - this comment also applies for the last bit of the actual ride itself as well.

Cheers Adam!

 

[redjedi]

Cheers Adam!

+1

 

[TheDoctor]

Looking at the weather, I'll give this a miss

 

[redjedi]

That's a shame Doc. The weather's looking alright. I little blustery but should be quite mild.

See you at HPC before 8am Martin

 

[martint235]

That's a shame Doc. The weather's looking alright. I little blustery but should be quite mild.

See you at HPC before 8am Martin

Yep will be there.

 

[stevevw]

I will be coming see you all in the morning.

 

[jayonabike]

Still very windy out there at the moment, the forecast is much the same for tomorrow. Not sure what to do yet, will make mind mind up first thing.

 

[jayonabike]

Just got back from walking the dogs, the wind has died down a fair bit so it's looking good.

 

[redflightuk]

Sorry guys , not going to make it this morning. Have a good ride all.

 

[jayonabike]

Just stuck my head out of the window, looks fine out there. See you at 10.

 

[stevevw]

Just about to leave, see you soon.

 

[jayonabike]

Just leaving.....see you soon

 

[Flying Dodo]

That's the nice thing about a local ride - last to leave and first home, as I didn't set off until 9.30 and I got back just after 4.

Really nice route and a fast-ish pace, so hopefully I've burnt off some of my Christmas excess as we had around 3,000 ft of climbing.

It was still pretty windy with the wheels getting caught when we went through gaps in hedges, so I hope Luke & Martin haven't suffered too much heading back to London down the A5.

Thanks for organising this Jay. As a re-run when it's warmer, hopefully there'll be quite a few more participants.

 

[lukesdad]

Good route and good company. What else could you ask for out of a sunday ride ? May just of beat you in Adam but it as you say its nice to have the shortest ride of the day for a change. Hope the uber century men dont get blown about too much, and Steves wheel gets home in one piece.

A few pics from today.

The riders gather, my new chum the coffee shop owner who was elated 6 cyclists had come for coffee on a Sunday morning.

The tea stop at the National Trust Bridgewater estate.

Jay and Martin survey the new works bikes they ve been given for the day.

After the lunch stop at the third time of asking....some look more content than others.

Thanks for organising it and inviting me Jay. Noy sure I could get back for a summer rerun but could certainly reccomend it to anybody who d be thinking about going along.