Re: Aberystwyth
Posted: 12 May 2023, 7:12pm
Suggest you seek out disused railway lines, and canal tow-paths.|It might help if you explained how your autism affects cycling eg balance ,route-finding safety etc
Er... there are two old railway lines out of Aber! One of them is now NCN route 81. NCN81 starts on the seafront at Aber and uses a footbridge to leave the town. There's then a very short bit of not-too-busy main road (short enough to walk on the pavement if you wish) before heading up a dead-end residential road to the railway line which then takes you south to Llanfarian. Shortly after Llanfarian, Route 81 diverges from the railway, starting on a nice little lane but then hitting a short section of bridleway that, frankly, is only really suitable for mountain bikes. (Insert obligatory whinge about Sustrans and their hypocritical approach to cycle routes here. Personally I'd take the back road from Llanfarian to Pant-Mawr instead.) At Pant-Mawr it rejoins the old railway line and follows it for several miles out to Trawsgoed/Crosswood.
I stand corrected. I did know about the one shadowing the steam railway, but my impression was that it didn't stay off the roads for long. But the other one does look interesting. I must have a look at that next time I am round there.AndyK wrote: ↑13 May 2023, 10:30pmEr... there are two old railway lines out of Aber! One of them is now NCN route 81. NCN81 starts on the seafront at Aber and uses a footbridge to leave the town. There's then a very short bit of not-too-busy main road (short enough to walk on the pavement if you wish) before heading up a dead-end residential road to the railway line which then takes you south to Llanfarian. Shortly after Llanfarian, Route 81 diverges from the railway, starting on a nice little lane but then hitting a short section of bridleway that, frankly, is only really suitable for mountain bikes. (Insert obligatory whinge about Sustrans and their hypocritical approach to cycle routes here. Personally I'd take the back road from Llanfarian to Pant-Mawr instead.) At Pant-Mawr it rejoins the old railway line and follows it for several miles out to Trawsgoed/Crosswood.
The other line isn't actually disused: it's a heritage steam railway running out to Devil's Bridge. There is a cycle route that shadows it fairly closely: it uses quiet country lanes for the most part, plus some deciated cycle paths within Aberystwyth.
See https://www.opencyclemap.org/ for both routes.
Honestly, I think that you’re likely being unreasonably hard on yourself and that something else is going on here. The OP is pretty unknown to us and I’m inclined to think that something’s not quite right …cycle tramp wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 4:53pmI did raise the issue with the OP at the start, but I got the tone of my enquiry wrong, came across as 'unwelcoming and aggressive'* and that and two other subsequent posts were removed.
(*it's my default emotional state - far too many years hanging out with the wrong sort of motorcycle rider)