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Any suggestions for routes/places to visit?

@moocher If you head up out of Henley towards Pishill you can head past Stonor Park and then down some country road quickly back into Reading. Another way out of Henley would be up Remenham Hill for a nice leg tester ultimately back through Twyford towards Reading.

+1 for that, all excellent (but v. v. busy on Sundays with carbonfire mamils. Soz if that's you. Remenham Hill. Phew. Climby :) )
Alternative at Stonor (a left hook just before the park gates) is a good (harder) climb up to Russells Water and is less well-trod (rode?), as is the climb from Assendon up to Bix (steeeeeeep) a left hook way before Stonor but on the same road out.
Then once you're on the top, loads of options - either right-ish to Watlington / Berrick Salome and then down towards Benson and the cafe on the Thames, or left-ish to Cookley Green either via Christmas Common or up the Pishill climb, and then along to the top to Nettlebed or down via Swincombe into Ewelme (fab cafe there) and then back across Ipsden / Stoke Row / Checkendon. Lots of good pubs, not many shops. Loads of single track also.
Well-testing climbs (all 10%'s ) for an old git like me from the Marlow / Reading road up via Hambledon towards Skirmett Fingest / Ibstone / Turville if you're inclined (no pun intended) but such reward...

thanks @Portski and @richardshill
Did another little ride yesterday with a friend, stopped at the Red Lion and then the Unicorn for refreshements. didnt take pics, but another lovely day.
heading out again tomorrow, unsure of where/what bike. maybe some offroad would be nice.

First day of mine and @Cycliste's Norway tour. Trondheim to the Arctic Circle. Today, Trondheim to Afjord.

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Took my own advice and advantage of the weather. Swift stop at Loddon Brewery. Was quiet roads the whole journey.

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Plymouth to Chagford over Dartmoor...and back the next day. Soaked and soaked again....been looking forward to that ride all through the hot sunny dry weather. Quiet though.....

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dry again today and unexpectedly free, so did another little ride. 17 miles out to Harpsden Bottom, Rotherfield Greys, Gallowstree Common, Kidmore End (stopped for a cider in The New Inn). Half quiet roads, half singletrack. Whole good.

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Still in Norway. We've made it to the Arctic Circle, albeit by a different route to that we had planned. Our original route went up the coast to Sandnessjoen, and then inland to Moi i Rana, and then up to Bodo. However, that involved riding on the E6, and everyone we've spoken to has said the E6 is not in any way bike-friendly.

So, with a little assistance from ridewithgps.com and booking.com we've changed our route and accommodation for the last three days, sticking to the coast road rather than going onto the E6. It does mean lots of ferries, and it has meant early mornings to make sure we get to the ferry in time for the crossing, but I think it's the right decision. Even if it did mean we crossed into the Arctic Circle while on a ferry rather than on our bikes.

Still, we're now in the Arctic Circle, in a little town called Inddyr. Last day's riding tomorrow, then an overnight train from Bodo back to Trondheim, then flights back to our respective homes. Here's some pictures:

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I imagine you've picked the perfect area to be riding in in this heatwave!

It was scorching hot until yesterday. Properly running-out-of-water-despite-having-two-large-bidons hot. Then the weather broke yesterday, and this morning was cool but dry while this afternoon was cool but wet.

Brevet base layer, brevet jersey, and brevet insulated gilet was perfect all day though.

120km to a bachelorparty in Aarhus 51x15

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2nd picture clearly the entrance to your Nordic lair.

I wish! Just another tunnel, although a rather long one at just over 3km end to end.

After 8 days' riding, we've arrived in Bodo for the train back to Trondheim. Stocked up on beer, nachos and biscuits for the train journey, and waiting out the 3 hours until the train in Bodo's only gastropub.

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Looks rubbish.

It is. The train journey back to Trondheim over the moors is proving to be pretty rubbish too. I'll have to console myself with another beer.

Ride to Hill for cake 🍰

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Standard loop to peaslake after being in the Dolomites last week. The roads were actually quieter than they were there!

Pretty empty as I headed out at 7.30, other than four guys in Sigma kit who were obviously hitters, riding a little slower than I wanted to. Thought they might just be having a chill one so I overtook them. As I did, two of them shouted ‘OOOooooooooo’. Ya know, how children used to in the playground if they thought you fancied another girl/boy. I don’t know why but it really got my back up. Aren’t cyclists supposed to be nice to each other? And greet each other on the road instead of being arseholes? I said hi as I passed, and then I get that. Imagine if they did that to someone who was brand new to cycling? Way to put someone off. Machismo bellends.

Anyway... good route, this.

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It's pathetic, but you did call them hitters after all.

Lovely lovely lovely hot and loads of bikes out clogging up the lanes. Gravelly. Dusty. Cider. Said hello to the free range pigs in the woods. Not many miles as wobbly nodding unused to skinny road tyres.

All done now...

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I’ve been battling fitness and health problems for the last couple of years, and it’s been over three years since I rode anything close to a century.

Things have been getting better recently so the annual LBL ride with some mates happened. Weather forecast was appalling, woke up with legs that felt like lead, and half the group had dropped out the night before.

But something suddenly clicked. I felt pretty good, managed to sit on the front for quite a while, the weather held out, and I made it all the way home.

I did fall asleep on the sofa clutching a slice of pizza though.

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Solid! is that elevation in feet or meters?

I would be dead if it was meters...

i guess i forgot the ;)