Today I did a recce for a BC Guided Ride from St Mary's Stadium in Southampton to the Winchester Criterium this Sunday. The first part of the route kinda follows NCN246 from the city centre north west to Redbridge and the start of the M271 before turning north out into the sticks.
Feck me if that's the ugliest stretch of riding I think I've ever done. Just ..... horrible. If you’d like to mix it with 40tonners from the port, ride past strip development industrial units, a railhead, stacks of containers, cut-and-shut garages and a congested six lane trunk-road and through litter-strewn copses that probably hide at least one body apiece , then I recommend this route. Otherwise, not so much.
So what’s your route that delivers on the fugly? I’m not talking somewhere that’s just a bit busy or unpleasant for cycling, but full-on wasteland or dystopian nightmare.
Feck me if that's the ugliest stretch of riding I think I've ever done. Just ..... horrible. If you’d like to mix it with 40tonners from the port, ride past strip development industrial units, a railhead, stacks of containers, cut-and-shut garages and a congested six lane trunk-road and through litter-strewn copses that probably hide at least one body apiece , then I recommend this route. Otherwise, not so much.
So what’s your route that delivers on the fugly? I’m not talking somewhere that’s just a bit busy or unpleasant for cycling, but full-on wasteland or dystopian nightmare.