The actual ride and its epic mountainness is documented here
This is the pretty pictures bit.
The ride started heading out Madingley road, taking in the misnamed Madingly Rise, a muur of a hill before heading into the nasty headwind
Following the villages through Barton and Haslingfield (watching out for baby hedgehogs, of which I saw non. Boo)
befure heading up Chapel Hill, another epic 50m of climb affording me this view into Hertfordshire A side trip to the Millennium Meridian marker (very similar to the one near Bourn)
and back into Melbourn (without the e and not in Australia). It's a bit rural!
Ever south and into Herfordshire through Barley before a left turn brought me to a surprise windmill in Great Chishall.
It's a post windmill. Not sure why it has the rear vane on it as the idea is that it's manually rotated into the wind on a post (as opposed to a tower where the top of the windmill rotates based on the tail rotor.
It's around this point I hit the heady elevation of 141m. In reality the hills as they were, were sharp and nasty. Yes I even dropped to 2mph at one point and dabbed once. However what did for me was the diesel and water on filthy roads. So much so that in Arkesden, 34 miles in my front wheel just went, I did 10 yards on my helmet before slamming onto my back. Fortunately no witnesses. The main reason for this ride was to make it up Elmden, Essex Hill, part of the London to Cambridge bikeride, run by Bike Events this year on 22 July. It's always been the sting in the tail. Turns out it's quite the sweetie compared to some of the other routes.
A quick run across the M11 to Ickleton, Sawston bypass and onto the DNA Path or NCN11 for the dullards. Here's the art
Obligatory helmet shot. Insert your own jokes. And sympathy. And cake
This is the pretty pictures bit.
The ride started heading out Madingley road, taking in the misnamed Madingly Rise, a muur of a hill before heading into the nasty headwind
Following the villages through Barton and Haslingfield (watching out for baby hedgehogs, of which I saw non. Boo)
befure heading up Chapel Hill, another epic 50m of climb affording me this view into Hertfordshire A side trip to the Millennium Meridian marker (very similar to the one near Bourn)
and back into Melbourn (without the e and not in Australia). It's a bit rural!
Ever south and into Herfordshire through Barley before a left turn brought me to a surprise windmill in Great Chishall.
It's a post windmill. Not sure why it has the rear vane on it as the idea is that it's manually rotated into the wind on a post (as opposed to a tower where the top of the windmill rotates based on the tail rotor.
A quick run across the M11 to Ickleton, Sawston bypass and onto the DNA Path or NCN11 for the dullards. Here's the art
Obligatory helmet shot. Insert your own jokes. And sympathy. And cake
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