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In honour of today's Giro stage 10 which passed through Roseto degli Abruzzi at 77.3km to go here are four routes I've ridden when based there for a cycling holiday.

It's a lovely little holiday resort mainly used by Italians rather than other nationalities. I was 100 metres from the beach and would walk my wife there and leave her for the day then head off into the mountains. It's easy to get up to 1,000 m altitude within 30km of the town and then head back down and hook up with my wife for lunch and dipping my toes in the warm Adriatic.

I've spent a week there in May and in September and it's a lovely, comfortable 25C.

Cinque Colli (five hills)

Favourite route

Lake and back

Talking Italian (shortened version of lake and back route)

Bonus video of one of the rides where my italian cycling buddy who owns the property I stayed in hooked me up with his local riding group. I don't speak Italian and they didn't speak much English but we still managed to get a great Sunday morning ride in.

I don't mean to stereotype but we started with a coffee, rode to a coffee stop and then finished with a coffee. We also caught similar rain to that experienced on today's stage although the rest of the week was bone dry and sunny.

Robert de Niro's Waiting

Edit: I realised I had a fourth route so have added this too

sounds good. Quite fancy the sound of this next year when Corona finally does one. Did you use your own bike or is there somewhere to hire there?

I often take my own bike on road trips but for this one decided that flying with my wife I would spare her the hassle and rent one locally. Rented it from Top Bike in the nearby town of Pineto for a pretty good rate.

It was an alu Focus with 105 gruppo and was more than capable and the bike shop were very helpful in terms of booking in advance via email, collecting and sizing and providing various accessories such as a Garmin mount etc.

I think it was €50 for 4 or 5 days.

Edit: another edit here with better weather and more countryside to view plus the bike shop at the start

Ray of Light

How close to Cambridge did you get before the mud became too much? Probably cycling to Bury St Edmunds this weekend and thinking about routes, could try an off road slog towards Cambridge and then hop on the roads I know and do the last bit or may just be better off going on the road bike

Has anyone got suggestions for nice routes or nice sections south of London? I moved to SE20 a few months ago and have been enjoying exploring Surrey, mostly around Biggin Hill, Caterham, Redhill etc but some tips from people who know the area better would be appreciated!

Have you ridden any lost lanes rides? they are good.

How far do you want to ride? This is one of my favourites routes at the moment https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33191515

or this variation with a flatish loop https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33999684

How long? How far?

I haven't! Will check some out though. Recommendations for nice rides anywhere between about 50-150km appreciated. Thanks the suggestions so far!

This was a nice route actually. Based on a few nice lanes I'd been down before, a couple of Komoot highlights and then letting Komoot fill in the rest whilst doing everything possible to avoid Croydon.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/r272077263?ref=atd

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Does anyone have any recommendations for a road route from East London to Chipping Norton (or at least to Oxford)?

I'm leaning towards just jumping on the train to Amersham and going from there, unless anyone has any highlights out through north west London?

Looking for an offorad way through St. Albans/Hatfield/Welwyn to cut diagonally SE/NW. Basically I am trying to find bridleways to reach the Chiltrens from NE London.

That area looks quite dense with development/industrial estate/car dedicated infrastructure

This route might help give you some inspiration - it's pretty much all off road or quiet lanes from Barnet to Kings Langley:
https://www.strava.com/routes/28995597

That's what I was after, thanks!

@tracks
I have segments of a route but can't find it immediately. I would recommend either a train to Slough (Pad) or Amersham (Marylebone) as you suggest. It is flat and boring to Slough and busy and lumpy to Amersham/Chesham through London. Unless you have a strong desire to traverse London's famous London you'll have a nicer ride if you start at one of those stations

There is a route (hard day in Jan) here you can fashion. As I said start at Slough/Langley rather than Staines

@Tracks - route from Slough station to Hook Norton (next village)
Apart from Henley upon Thames bridge it is quite lovely

https://www.strava.com/activities/628849873

If you need a route to Slough I can give you that

Thanks again @amac090 for the input, I pieced together this route for a Novemeber muddy 2 day-er. Never been offroading around the Chiltrens, but it seems there are a ton of trails/bways (and gates).

As usual any input is more than welcome.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34541151

Has anyone got suggestions for nice rides or roads worth checking out in this sort of area? I can get a direct train out to Sevenoaks in about 20 minutes from mine, I thought it might be nice to mix up where I'm riding a bit! Looking for anywhere between 50-150km road rides really.

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This sounds great, thank you, much appreciated! I think I'm going to head out this way, then back the next day via Amersham.

Don't worry about the Slough part, I'll just jump on the train as you recommended too.

Do you like hills?

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33465474

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33465487

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30682125

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30378991

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30165777

I haven’t found any great route. Tried it twice. It’s a shit area.

Long term reply.
I will go down this way tomorrow, but noticed that climb you're talking about is actually a private road, any issues there?

It’s part of the National Cycle Network so no problem to ride it.

km 82.3 to 85, are you sure it's NCN?
http://surreymaps.surreycc.gov.uk/public/viewer.asp Doesn't show it

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33485261

Sorry, was confusing what you were asking. I think you are referring to the track parallel to Upland Road. There’s a gate about 200 metres from the road, if that’s closed you can’t use it. There’s an easy alternative, head north up Slines Oak road to the farm, then you can use Upland Road which is a bridleway.

Are reliability rides designed to be suitable rides during winter? Or something else...?