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Cool that's good intel. We're based in Heacham so very close to the coast. It's not a cycling holiday, it's friends and five dogs! I'd imagine I'll get out on the bike on a couple of days so I'm thinking the fixed in that case. May do something like cycle to the broads and meet ppl there.

Ah yeah, definitely go fixed in that case! I don't know the West Norfolk coast as well as the other parts, but for a really easy route just following the A149 around the coast is a pretty good option, as it's not really an A road at all. You can't really go too wrong with any of the smaller roads either, mind. Enjoy it!

Cheers pal, it's a corner of the England I've never been to before so looking forward to it!

I stayed a bit along the coast, at Wells, and it was a bit hillier around there than I was expecting, but still all doable fixed I'd think. None of the hills were steep, just draggy.

You could ride up to Wells and follow the top section of this route (in reverse) down to the broads, it's a lovely route and includes a ferry crossing near Reedham (costs £1)

https://www.strava.com/activities/1020423888

Fixed is fine out there unless a real wind blows up, but then it's only a minor inconvenience. I'd have no qualms about it.

Sunny Hunny is a nice destination for a quick jaunt, although the main road in can get a bit busy.

tl;dr

Too long; didn't ride?

Works for me.

I'm addicted to Regents Park. Something about the brain numbing circuitry. Anyway changed the flavour by riding laps on my old, (1935), Raleigh Path Racer. Today my legs are about a half a second behind my brain. Multiple stacks walking to work.

https://www.relive.cc/view/1084411567
Nice ride to Stone Henge Saturday

Another trip out Sunday
https://www.relive.cc/view/1086102319

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Lovely spin round the Isle Of Wight last week-end with @bsb and friends. Nice to finally see what the island looks like in daylight!

Takings pictures on a moving bike is hard.

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Last two photos are superb!

If I can stretch to a long weekend of bike rides, I've just got back from doing L'Etape du Tour, with some warm-up and cool-down rides to take advantage of the splendour of the Alps. We were unbelievably lucky with the weather, with nothing worse than some slightly numb braking fingers coming off Col du Galibier to worry about.

Thursday: warm-up ride down and up Alpe d'Huez. Far enough away from the main event to give it a bit of effort up the climb.
Friday: a more leisurely affair taking in Col de la Croix de Fer/Glandon and Lacets de Montvernier.
Saturday: rest
Sunday: Etape. Col de Vars, Col de L'Izoard.
Monday: Cool-down (!) - Col du Telegraphe, Col du Galibier, followed by a 40k descent to Bourg D'Oisans, where I was persuaded to forget about another ascent of Alpe d'Huez in favour of a cold beer or three.

More pics!

Much beautiful, such jealous! Nice rides and pics...

little wet on the way up, fine for the way down - Audi R8 came within an inch of wiping me out on the wrong side of the road as I went down. :-/

Also, not sure i remember the cobbles from when i did it 9 years ago....

back down to Fusch for ice cream and cake :)

Is the first photograph taken at the Western end of Westbrook Bay, just before you get to the large car park?

Sunday :

and views....

back up Gross'y again today, wet, hyperthermic rain , lightning on the way down....wimped out going the extra 100m to the hutt (top left behind the rain)...

My ride this Saturday was a quite pootle in the Chiltern lanes which I wouldn't normally bother telling you about were it not for the hedgerow find you can see in the frying pan below.

They are slices of a giant puffball. This is one of the few wild mushrooms that I can recognise with enough confidence to eat. I'm not sure that I cooked it in the best possible way, because the flavour in the mouth although good, wasn't as outstanding as one might have hoped. On the other hand the house was filled with a delightful mushroom smell, so maybe the taste somehow escaped from the pan.

My grandparents lived roughly in that area, and I remember a great aunt talking about knowing when and where wild mushrooms grew, and going out to collect them. I was a bit surprised to find this puffball since it was growing on the verge of the road, in full view of every passerby.

Thinking about it, I realised that probably all the locals have been pushed out of their idyllic village homes by rich incomers, who zoom along the lanes in their expensive German cars not noticing the treasures lying about at the roadside.

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Thanks for sharing some taste and grunts on country side development @clubman

I did 200km 51X16 Race across Skåne

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