Cycling UK Forum

Oh the English national obession with banning stuff. The alternatives to shared use paths is yet another place where you are not allowed to walk, or yet another class of path on which you cannot take a bike. Do you really want yet more restrictions on your freedom of movement? NB these paths are gre...

" Unfortunately though, and without any deliberate intent or malice, the regular appearance of mtb's on a footpath would totaly deny many of the pleasures that hill walkers are seeking." How? We can share here, why not south of the border? Reading hillwalking literature, there is a great e...

The nearest I have got to being hit as a pedestrian was on a road up to Ranmore Common. Can I petition against Surrey being turned into a F1 circuit. If that Lewis Hamilton comes in here.... Of course I am too late.

This rising tide of hatred is very worrying. Is it safe to visit England now?

Fettercairn: I was there (on the way back from Shetland, not cycling) in July. Quite a posh bistro like place but they love cyclists. There was a group in there and the staff checked with them that they were OK for water before they left. No need to ask! Food and coffee was rather good too.

Aberdeen and the Shire appear all too frequently in the news and traffic reports due to RTAs. My own experiences back up the impression that it is hairy there. One exception was the Scooby being razzed around Tillydrone and some private looking roads on NCN1 by the Don. The noise was horrendous and ...

It seems pretty obvious to me that an independent Scotland would leave the way open for a right wing Westminster govt ie in England and ipso facto what was left of the UK. AIUI, if you were to discount Scottish MPs, there would have been a Tory Government in the rest of the UK for the past many dec...

Galloway, well the upland bits is as bad as anywhere for midges. Otherwise the advice holds. The Southeast has lots of good quiet roads and is low on the biting air ratings.

I started using the SYHA hostels less and less. Simply because the hostels I wanted to use were closed. More and more of my usual hostels went, often because of house price inflation when a hostel became a very valuable asset to be liquidated. I expect a lot of the killing thus made went into Leith ...

In wooded areas, early morning and late evening are the times roe deer stalkers are about.

Meanwhile, what kind of moron thinks that it is OK to have a car the same colour as the roads?

It is quite normal to get on with each other here, and the sky has not fallen in. These fences are quite significant.... The northernmost public footpath http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/59/53/2595364_8c05fa1b_213x160.jpg I think most folk keep on riding through the gate.

"The military can find some other lump of land to fire shells at surely?" No need - they already have Cape Wrath and have been successfully sharing with the local community for years. Why take this provocative step now, a sensitive time? Perhaps someone somewhere is unaware of the signifig...

Take midges seriously - End of May onwards. Another good reason for visiting the coast, is more chance of breezes near the coast which keeps them off, but the wind always seems to die down as the sun drops. Remember Sutherland has three coasts and the north coast is definitely worth seeing. Breezes ...

What might change is that with the purchase of the lighthouse, the road can be closed. The concern is due to a letter sent from the MoD to Durness council stating that any public access will be removed for H&S reasons. This has naturally worried the local community as a source of income could be...

Serious noises being made about permanant sealing off of Cape Wrath from the War Office. http://www.developingdurness.org/Save_Cape_Wrath/Entries/2012/12/23_Whats_it_really_all_about.html All hinges on the MoD not getting their hands on the lighthouse. Should this happen they intend sealing off the ...