Favorite places to ride...

I just thought I start a thread to pay tribute to our favorite places to ride in cambridge, pictures please... :)

Mine is the Grafton Centre multi story car park

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shweeet, we should do a skid comp down there.
the grand arcade car park is pretty good too. From 6th story on the roof to -4 undeground spiral

No way siiick, the roof space massive and skids real nicely : )

that has to be done maybe one thurs or somthing ?

someone bring a camera fo sure? matt?

ill bring one and a fue flashes if i can get my trigers to work propa

:) i meant camcorder sorry, (there are minuses in being foreign) to record video.
but getting some sweet photos down would be fucking ace as well.

ahhhhhh i seeeee hahahahahaha yeh video of it would be wiked man i have my little hd video cam but i dunno how good it is for enything other than jenral home movies yet... its also not that grate in lo light

Ill bring mine but I've only got one flashgun :(

Yeah, for sure.

I can't think of my favourite places to ride as such but moments I do enjoy are maxing it down East Road at rush hour in the middle of the traffic, realising I've gone the wrong way and end up taking that wooden walkway alongside the river from Jesus Green to Quayside, and Castle Hill (down).

i like granhams hill and grantchester meadows the most, and really like the towpath that goes through fen ditton

i've just resurrected an old flash that works with my ricoh, i'd be up for some action photography on thursday

and really like the towpath that goes through fen ditton

Yea is that the jubilee cycle path?

not sure, but whilst on it you cycle past the Plough in Fen Ditton, which is a really nice pub

Don't really like cycling IN Cambridge that much. But yeah, Riverside all the way to Fen Ditton on the cycle path is nice. Fave bit of road for me is Coploe Hill and on from Ickleton to Strethall. Also the climb from Six Mile Bottom to Brinkley. Hmm, perhaps that should be my favourite climbs?

grantchester meadows gets on my tits. full of families, dogs, tourists and other spatially unawares.
The boardwalk along quayside? *** are you mad?!!***

Fave bit of road for me is Coploe Hill and on from Ickleton to Strethall

Just did that today; http://www.bikeradar.com/routes/?bpath=maps%2Fbike-path%2FShort-Training-Ride-Round-Cambridge

It was such a nice ride I would highly recommend it...

The boardwalk along quayside? *** are you mad?!!***

Yes. I don't really like it at all. I just suddenly feel like I am in The Italian Job. On bikes.

Just did that today; http://www.bikeradar.com/routes/?bpath=maps%2Fbike-path%2FShort-Training-Ride-Round-Cambridge

It was such a nice ride I would highly recommend it...

Yup, that looks nice - and you can easily adapt it if you want to go further, eg. from Fowlmere head out to Shepreth, Barrington (another good hill), Haslingfield and back through Grantchester.

Yes. I don't really like it at all. I just suddenly feel like I am in The Italian Job. On bikes.

You know there are NO CYCLING signs at the end don't you? Or is that why you suddenly feel a bit gangsta?

I thought about carrying on to saffron walden but didn't in the end

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/50m-Saffron-Walden-n-back

go out via fen ditton. i.e. clockwise.

definitely with you there mark on the climbs from 6 mile to brinkley, but even better is the subsequent 5 miles of spinning from balsham to fulbourn...... bring on the p.b's

I'm not sure I like cycling in the city very much either. I don't have any routes that are perfect, there is always something on them that spoils them. I like rolling around town at night but just beacuse I like rolling around.

My most recent circuit is down Hills Road, out past Addenbrookes then right up the horrible hill down to the Shelford crossing, then back in along the DNA Path. I hate climbing hills but there's only one way to get better at something.

The ride from Cambridge to Bishops Stortford down the B1383 is really nice on a hot day and pretty fast if you get a good steady pace up.

My most recent circuit is down Hills Road, out past Addenbrookes then right up the horrible hill down to the Shelford crossing, then back in along the DNA Path. I hate climbing hills but there's only one way to get better at something.

granhams hill/road :)
anybody know any decent routes hertfordshire way into cambridge? i'm going to get some long distance practice in

Just did that today; http://www.bikeradar.com/routes/?bpath=maps%2Fbike-path%2FShort-Training-Ride-Round-Cambridge

It was such a nice ride I would highly recommend it...

lovely riding, especially the latter half, spent most of my yoof doing the latter half on a mtb and coming off the road to seek out new trails.

try this on for size. http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/70m-Herts-and-Essex-Nasty

check out my other routes too .(top left, greasyboy in grey) I'm adding more as and when.