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The problem of keeping away from motor traffic is not solved but this route is useable in all weathers and, with care, in the dark. I have tried various alternate routes to this, they all have problems. This is the … Continue reading
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Following the convolutions of NCR11 covers most of the distance. Continue reading
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So far the active travel options still inolve crossing and re-crossing the A1123. Continue reading
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This route may not appear to be obvious as there are options to ride from Lode to Wicken on NCR11. By avoiding the ‘Lodes Way’ there is less gravel work and a little less exposure to wind. Of the many … Continue reading
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2.19km: There is a single, daily train from Cambridge to Harwich International (or Parkeston Quay as it used to be known, it still carries the station code HPQ). The ride to the station starts the journey to Leuven. All the … Continue reading
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Whether its adventure, gravel, trekking, bikepacking or touring the CdF is the bike for the job provided you are ok with the 12.5 kg weight. Since Vin Cox set the 2010 round the world record on one, its robustness has … Continue reading
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Jemma Frisious, published in 1584, a survey manual that demonstrated intersection of angles by ‘astrolable catholico’, as a ‘universal’ survey tool. Within a short few years precise national mapping campaigns were underway accross Europe. One of the first, by Christopher … Continue reading
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Crossing the railway at Leuven and Cambridge are 2 ‘tunnel’ bridges of similar age. They differ in span with the 1989 Cambridge Tony Carter bridge being longer and something of an engineering monument as the longest cycle bridge in Britain … Continue reading
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