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Where is your favourite place ever to go on a bike ride

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Kittenswhiskers · 09/03/2025 14:47

ideally with a nice solid path for most of it
ideally water views and a proper cycle path not in the road

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Kittenswhiskers · 09/03/2025 21:14

LindorDoubleChoc · 09/03/2025 21:11

A week long cycling holiday from Passau in SE Germany to Vienna in Austria all along the banks of the Danube. Beautiful.

How many miles do you cycle per day ? That’s perhaps a bit intense for me

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Kittenswhiskers · 09/03/2025 21:13

Ilovemyshed · 09/03/2025 21:12

Around Rutland Water

Does that have a proper path ?

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Ilovemyshed · 09/03/2025 21:12

Around Rutland Water

LindorDoubleChoc · 09/03/2025 21:11

A week long cycling holiday from Passau in SE Germany to Vienna in Austria all along the banks of the Danube. Beautiful.

Huckyfell · 09/03/2025 21:08

What area? A lot of coastal towns are good, flat and bike lanes. But one way there and the wind is normally against you one way or the other.
Look up bike tracks

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Kittenswhiskers · 09/03/2025 21:05

placemats · 09/03/2025 17:13

Canal towpaths?

You're going to struggle on cycle paths that are flat and not near a road.

Both those above have very little traffic.

Rathlin Island off the north coast of Antrim is car free. Ferry from Ballycastle. But the coast path isn't entirely flat.

Yes canal towpaths sound good

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Kittenswhiskers · 09/03/2025 21:05

Isitafullmoon · 09/03/2025 17:17

Dorset is pretty good for cycling.

Anywhere in particular ?

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Isitafullmoon · 09/03/2025 17:17

Dorset is pretty good for cycling.

placemats · 09/03/2025 17:13

Canal towpaths?

You're going to struggle on cycle paths that are flat and not near a road.

Both those above have very little traffic.

Rathlin Island off the north coast of Antrim is car free. Ferry from Ballycastle. But the coast path isn't entirely flat.

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Kittenswhiskers · 09/03/2025 17:07

I just don’t like being near the road, prefer cycle paths

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placemats · 09/03/2025 14:57

It was Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland and at the head of Galway Bay. We cycled out to Dun Aonghasa, a prehistoric fort, and a day I'll never forget.

If you have a good bike then any road should be easy.

Livinginvnam · 09/03/2025 14:49

Western Isles. Genuinely beautiful, lots of water, and hardly any people. Get the train to Oban, then the ferry over.