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

[Kittenswhiskers]

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

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

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.

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

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.

Dorset is pretty good for cycling.

Anywhere in particular ?

Yes canal towpaths sound good

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

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

Around Rutland Water

Does that have a proper path ?

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

North Somerset, lots of quite roads, as it's an extension of the Somerset levels it's flat. And big sky. Montana you ain't seen nothing.

Great wildlife, herons, buzzards, even starling murmerations if your lucky...then you can hit the coast paths, or head to a decent country pub.

I saw weasels, eagrets, red kites, deer, pheasants, moor hen, chiff chaff, gold finches, Canada geese, mallards , just on a ride to Weston mare this week...and the tide was in!

Plus Thatchers cider farm...a couple of cedar valleys and you can cycle to anywhere!

I'll add sustrans are based in Bristol....lots of cycle paths, quite roads, I can cycle the 9 miles to the centre of Bristol and spend only one mile on very quite roads along the banks of the avon

Mawddach trail, Gwynedd

https://www.southlytchettmanor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bike-to-Poole-Quay.pdf

Well this was the route we did. We were on holiday there.

But I think a lot of the places round there are well set up for cycling.

The camel trail in Cornwall. If you want beside water this is hard to beat. The granite way in Devon is lovely, on Dartmoor but not too steep to cycle.

Germany and France with their huge cycle networks.

Bayern and Switzerland. Biking is normal there, they're not trying to mow you down, and spectacular scenery.

Nip over to France- drive 1 hour south of Calais to Baie de Somme. beautiful flat and with nature reserves, nice fishing villages, birds and seal and also fresh mussels (that’s where they grow them). Moules frites are heavenly.

https://en.francevelotourisme.com/cycle-route/somme-valley-cycle-route

Oh and yes - dedicated cycle routes

Bristol-Bath cycle path. Lovely at Warmley to Bath. I used to cycle there, and sit along the canal and wave at passing boats.

New Forrest.

The Monsal trail in the Peak District

Oh what’s your starting point ? I’d love to cycle around Bristol