Nice Smooth Roads to cycle on around London

plusgourmande

I went around some roads near the A10 today. Really bad roads and stiff bike = numb nuts and hands. But smooth roads on a stiff bike = cycling paradise!

Does anybody know any nice 50 or 100 mile routes with nice tarmac?

Thanks.

Mark Alexander

I think Iceland has some nice roads, they looked great on Top Gear
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Wogan

From my (limited) experience, UK roads are about 90% bloody awful, 10% OK and 10% smooth.

In London, I'm pleasantly surprised if I can find a 100m stretch of smooth tarmac. Westminster roads are waaaaay smoother than any other boroughs, but that is offset by the ridiculous amount of traffic.

I'm depressed when I think of the roads I've seen on my travels in Germany and Switzerland - smooth, clean and an abscence of manhole covers. Even France has better roads. It's not rocket science, so why can't the UK authorities get it right?

Forget I asked that question. I often wonder how anything works in this ****hole of a country.

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wogan,
westminster roads are noooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaay the bestest roads,even in the city of london they are crap !!!b your correct about the traffic and those fascist wardens who like dishing out tickets !!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr thats better got it of my chest !!!!

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zimzum42

I'd agree that the best road surfaces are in westminster, they resurface them quite often.

Regent's Park is pretty smooth, the outer circle.......

They've just been resurfacing the A41 around Mill Hill......



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plusgourmande

Around london as it outside the M25...

Unknown

London's rubbish, so is Surrey where I do most of my riding.

I did the Hampshire Hilly Hundred, which is doable if you drive from london and the roads around there are fantastic in comparison.