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Hello Alan.

Hope that you are keeping well.

Indeed, they were good times.

I was there.

Still got the spoke card pined up in the man cave, and the £5 charity shop Harris tweed jacket.

Dropped out when the comercial boys got involved.

Get yourself down to a B&Q.

They sell metal strip.

Put a 90deg bend in one end, measure how long you need, cut, assemble, mark only 1 hole position, drill, fit bolt.

Done.

I spent all of my formative years, and more, cycling all around those areas.

With those pictures I just assumed that you were from that part of the world.

So, I'm miles out on pic 5 then.

@theflatboy.

As a long departed 'Man of Kent', I am using old memories to identify the photograps in your posts.

#3164

1. Botany Bay
   
2. Ramsgate Harbour from the Westcliffe - Paragon Promenade.
   
3. Between Minnis Bay and Reculver.
   
4. Whitstable, nr Hampton Inn.
   
5. Rings a bell, but cannot place it. Somewhere in Cliftonville?
   
   

#3173

1. Ex Ramsgate Casino, now Weatherspoons.
   
2. Ramsgate Harbour and Royal Parade.
   

Clubman, You could still join London Clarion for £5:

' We also offer a £5 membership for anyone that already has Third-Party Liability insurance through Cycling UK, CTC, London Cycling Campaign or British Cycling'

Read it here: https://www.londonclarion.org.uk/member-benefits

@greentricky

'.....Sandringham for Office training......'

I think that you meant Sandhurst?

Sandringham is a residence used by the Queen.

Open as a stately house when the Queen is elsewhere.

Seen plenty of gardeners, cleaning staff, police, but never any soldiers.

How about:

https://www.eurofitdirect.co.uk/collections/heavy-duty-slides-draw-runners/products/heavy-duty-80kg-drawer-runner-53-x-800mm-ext-100

Not too sure about shipping to you though.

Stopped off for a quick coffee in a certain supermarket just in that area during a car journey to Beacon Park, Gorleston a couple of weeks back.

I did make a mental note that the area looked to be good to be cycling in.

Oh OK I'm west of that.

Impressed.

Like the sewing machine.

That is a nice autumn leaves picture.

Where were you riding?

Last winter I bought a pair of the Planet X 'Das Boot'. (SPD winter boot)

At £75 best bit of winter clothing I have ever purchased.

Use them with 'thinnish' socks to allow toe movement and circulation.

Just checked, they dont show on their website. Shame.

Maybe worth an enquiry. Might still have some stock languishing on the shelf.

Northwave also have winter boots but £££'s.

Bamford Clough anyone?

https://velotastic.co.uk/high-five/

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jB3yPzz-8

Admiration. Be proud of yourself.

Some thoughts:

Train to Cambridge, or are you starting from East Road, Cambridge?

Turn right a@ Emanual Street and cross Christs Pieces, Midsomer Common/Jesus Green. Footpaths, traffic free.

BusWay NCN 15 Good Idea. Traffic free. (Well apart from busses on their bit of the guided way of course).
@Northstowe, rt, Willingham,Earith, Somersham, Pidley, Warboys, Ramsey. Avoid St Ives.
Roads near RAF Wyton, St Ives, busy and fast. Lots of artic trucks.

Section Bourne, Billingborough, Ruskington, Metheringham. Head a bit more East. Flat, straight, exposed roads, very FAST traffic.

Or, @ Dunston, West, cross the A15 (again fast road), to Harmston, down hill, rt to Bracebridge.

Dunston to Lincoln down Canwick Hill, via tidal flow to hotel VERY busy with traffic.

Hope some of this is useful to you.

Good luck and enjoy.

Let us know how you get on.

@cliveo.

I know the flat lands of Cambrideshire and Linolnshire pretty well.

Can you post up your route?

Might have some ideas to help you.

@ Scrabble.

The app that you mentioned in post #128 is priced in $.

Does this function correctly in the UK? You mentioned OS maps.

Its not clear from the notes in play.google

Don't want to spend if its of no use in these fair isles!

@clubman.

You take as long as you like.

SA 3 speed?

Enjoy the ride, that is the main objective.

Hope I'm still riding 'later in life' like you obviously are.

Cheers

Security.

In addition to ground anchors/big chains, you should improve the locking of the front door.

I used 1 inch square steel tubing, overlapping the frame and brickwork, pinned on one side of the door, and padlocked at the other. Prevents the door being opened from the outside.

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Wow. That beach.

Where is that?

Thats a nice story. Thanks.

As an aside, went to a small exhibition recently where a group from Norfolk County Council have got a small amount of funding to study and consider generating cycle paths on old railway lines.

So in West Norfolk, there are two old lines that could be considered, and the trackbed still does exit in parts (as I have found), but like in many situations has been built on, or now forms part of somebodies enlarged garden (legal or illegal). The chap running the exhibition (held in 5 or 6 local places over a week), said that they have received a good and favourable response.

Marriots Way, near Norwich was an existing path that they were looking at improving.

Suprisingly, it turned out that none of the group had been to the Peaks to ride on and see how the High Peaks Trail, Monsal Trail, Tissington Trail etc, etc, worked, the popularity, and the additional 'cafe' business that could be brought to railway cycle paths in Norfolk.

Have used these people before:

https://www.hobbyweld.co.uk/