What your preference?

[gavroche]

Personally, I would much prefer to go from A to B and not A to B and back to A again as most of us do I should think. When I get to B, I am not keen to turn round and go back, I would much prefer to carry on, like a TDF stage for example but unfortunately it is not practical as I can't move my house to another point. The further out I go, the more I think " I have to do all that back again" and somehow the return journey is less enjoyable that the outbound one.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I tend not to go A to B then back to A the same way, I'd much rather come back a different route.

 

[ianrauk]

I don't mind either way.
I like retracing a route just as much as I like a circular route.
However far I go, I always work it to cycle back home anyway. Last resort is getting a train back.

 

[numbnuts]

All my routes are a circle mostly anticlockwise

 

[GrasB]

I'm not to bothered about it my self. That said in Italy I prefer to do out & back via the same route. Normally the outbound & inbound challenges are completely different... but that's alpine riding for you. That said I'll admit to sometimes planning very tough rides my return route to take some of the lovely long & fast mountain roads... even if it is just for look on people faces (I like my >60t chainrings )

 

[MarkF]

Agree with OP, I wish I could just keep going, forever, "returning" is miserable.

When I see people showing routes for a touring holiday and it's a circular route, I have to bite my tongue, are they mad?

 

[Teuchter]

All my routes are a circle mostly anticlockwise

Do you counter the negative energy caused by this dangerous practice by standing in your garden and turning an appropriate number of turns clockwise afterwards?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A-B-A is fine for me, though I'll rarely take exactly the same route home. The B bit is almost always somewhere new. Back to A is good because the world looks and feels different on the way home anyway and I can make a better pot of leaf tea than I can buy at C,D or E. Besides, A is at sea level so it's downhill....

 

[mwktar]

I'm always up for loops, but a fellow rider friend prefers turning round and heading back, he says its easier because he knows the route as he knows he's on his way home

 

[ufkacbln]

All my routes are a circle mostly anticlockwise

Bleeding lefties again!

:troll:

 

[ufkacbln]

Depends on how I feel.

I tend to tour in a linear fashion. Train to start and then from the finish

Days out can vary on company and others factors but tend to be circular.

The IoW Randonnee is both as the route to the start is a return along the same route, and the Island circular

 

[Matthew_T]

I want to cycle to my relatives house in Manchester some time this summer. It is a 65 mile journey (I know where I am going but will take a map anyway).
I plan to cycle from A to B on one day, sleep over, then cycle from B to A on the next. The main thing I am waiting for is the right weather (which doesnt look like it will come).

I prefer to go one way. You can go further distances then.

 

[derrick]

Will always do a loop, never come back the way i go, found a new one today got a bit lost on the way back, it only added a couple of miles so no prob.

 

[Cycling Dan]

I tend to get to B then go oh I can go a little bit further end up doing the 20 or so miles it takes to get back and I run out of energy. Im not very good on long rides :P. If i do long rides i tend to stick in a 15mile radius of home ha

 

[mwktar]

On a few occasions I've aimed for A to B, and somehow stumbled upon E

I'm not great at route planning.....