Staying local

[Beespoke]

People just need to be a little more imaginative with their rides 🤪🤪🤪

So how many miles can you cover in your local town, without going down the same piece of road in the same direction more than once, and also avoiding u-turns down dead end roads...

Give it a go without any preplanning... It's a little like chess on a bike where you're thinking several roads and junctions ahead... can be done on any bike, plus because your around town with streetlights, can also be done at night to mix it up.

 

[welsh dragon]

Aiui the rules for cycling as exercise in Wales changed at the end of last month - NB this is not 'travel' it's exercise.
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/n...lsh-Cycling-Coronavirus---Covid-19-Guidance-0
Key point is that rides must start and finish from home. And then your exercise ride will be within restrictions on both sides of the border. Pretty sure that riding to work across the border is an allowed exemption as well. What is all the traffic on the Severn Bridge doing? Are all those 'travellers' breaking one rule or other?
Last time I rode into Wales I started and finished from home, riding to Brecon and Hay-on-Wye. Wasn't local mind and would definitely not satisfy the 'common sense' test November to March.

The rules keep changing every minutes to be honest. People in Wales have been getting a tad angry at people coming over the border. Tempers are frayed

 

[Ajax Bay]

Calm down and ride on, Dai.

 

[Cycling_Samurai]

I would happily live in Wales.

Old hippy lol

 

[Cycling_Samurai]

People just need to be a little more imaginative with their rides 🤪🤪🤪

So how many miles can you cover in your local town, without going down the same piece of road in the same direction more than once, and also avoiding u-turns down dead end roads...

Give it a go without any preplanning... It's a little like chess on a bike where you're thinking several roads and junctions ahead... can be done on any bike, plus because your around town with streetlights, can also be done at night to mix it up.
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You're really keeping local.

 

[matticus]

People in Wales have been getting a tad angry at people coming over the border. Tempers are frayed

what, even the really friendly welsh people??

 

[welsh dragon]

what, even the really friendly welsh people??

Yep. Even those of which there are plenty. They are some of he nicest people you could meet. They just don't like people taking the Mick.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Who goes to Wales anyway? England is much nicer.

Really missing my trips to Lake Vyrnwy. Looking forward to when I can ride over to the coast again too.

 

[winjim]

How much exercise do you actually need?

 

[Cycling_Samurai]

How much exercise do you actually need?

Every day and often.😛🚴‍♂️😱

 

[Beespoke]

You're really keeping local.

Oh I do secretly venture over the town boundaries occasionally, but rides like that are to show that the miles can still be ticked off really close to home.

 

[matticus]

Really missing my trips to Lake Vyrnwy. Looking forward to when I can ride over to the coast again too.
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Nice. Which climb do you prefer from there? Or do you just turn round and ride back to Shrewsbury??

 

[Cycling_Samurai]

Oh I do secretly venture over the town boundaries occasionally, but rides like that are to show that the miles can still be ticked off really close to home.

😎
Actually looking at your route again, I've not gotten into doing dead end rides like that. I'm on doing continuous rides that minimize going over the same route. But being out and back it's unavoidable. Unless it's circle island. Which I'm prepping to attempt again in the summer.

 

[winjim]

Every day and often.😛🚴‍♂️😱

No you don't. The OP is asking whether they can cycle 50miles and 'stay local', presumably referring to the covid lockdown guidance. Cycling 50miles in any direction, at any distance from your home is incompatible with covid lockdown guidance.

Edit: incompatible with the spirit of covid lockdown guidance.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The roads (and house-builders) are busy here because no-one wants to live in Wales.

Isn‘t Wales where all the criminals and ne’er-do-wells are housed?