ever wished you could ride somewhere?

bianchimoon

what i really mean is, have you ever been somewhere on a visit or a holiday without your bike and really wished you could ride there? Every so often we hire a cottage in the new forest and without fail those superflat wide open spaces and tree lined rolling lanes really get me yearning to take the bike there one year. Jus don't think it's worth the 'your on holiday with us' aggro i'm sure i'd get as i disappear for a 3 hour ride every other evening

spinndrift

I'm dead lucky as the in laws live in the New Forest and have gone down for a fortnight the past two years and taken the bikes.

The wife accepts that if I am to have a six pack and not a brewery then I need to ride.

bianchimoon

spinndrift wrote:

I'm dead lucky as the in laws live in the New Forest and have gone down for a fortnight the past two years and taken the bikes.

The wife accepts that if I am to have a six pack and not a brewery then I need to ride.

dead lucky!!!, taking the bike on holiday AND having a 6 pack, you're positively spoilt

navrig

I take the "I'll be back by breakfast" approach and I make sure I am. Just means getting up early but in the summer that's a pleasure.

spinndrift

I wish I had the six pack - still too near the brewery at the moment.

We've found that I can fit a ride in with what the rest of us are doing - maybe go somewhere for trip out and ride home, a pub lunch somewhere - they go in the car and I'll ride or one for the women is send them to a spa and then you get the whole day free.

We went to Cornwall for years when the kids were younger and never thought about riding but back the old stomping grounds in April and taking the bike (we were meant to be going to Scotland but the wife booked Cornwall!!!!!!)

bianchimoon

I envy you, we normally alternate between cornwall and new forest, i just find the roads too narrow and potentially dangerous around the south coast of cornwall, but the new forest roads where we stay near pilley just feel absolutely perfect for biking. Still may try and squeeze the bike in just in case - cheers

R8JimBob88

Yep, I went on a rock climbing holiday in Kalymnos (a greek island) last september. Its a tiny island, probably about 15 miles long and about 8 miles wide. The roads were perfect and it had some pretty steep climbs and huge steep decents on perfect tarmac.

I'm going back to climb next year for 3 weeks and im very tempted to take the bike!

niblue

Most recent one for me was last night. I downloaded an RLV that a chap in Norway made of a route in the Lofoten islands and rode it on the turbo-trainer last night. Looked lovely so would really like to ride there for real!

ilm_zero7

places to cycle dont get much more spectacular than this....

warm, dry, smooth, floodlit and an amazing backdrop



http://www.thinkflash.ae/blogdetails.as ... 7AFB85C7F6

oh - and open every tuesday night and 600m from my door!!

PRICELESS!

markos1963

Every time I go to Cyprus and drive up in the Troodos mountains I think to myself 'one day' Then I look at the thermometer reading 35c and put that to the back of my mind

Alex_Gill

the new forest is good to ride,
i'm at uni down in southampton so the uni club head out there often.

it's always soo windy down there
pretty though.