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Glorious Bike Rides
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I recently purchased the guide, and yesterday embarked on this, the first ride “Travels in a Strange Land”. Wiltshire is relatively unknown to a Midlander like myself, and was an absolute joy to experience on a lovely summer’s day. The views across the Downs were beautiful, the ancient stones at Avebury a joy to see (having never even heard about them before), and the flight of locks at Caen Hill a monumental feat of engineering. Above all, though, the ride was quiet, interesting and indeed lived up to the billing of “Lost Lanes” as it took us through villages and landscapes that otherwise would never be experienced. I look forward to planning many more days out or weekends away following your routes!
Found it straightforward to download the GPX file to my Android mobile phone, then having enabled the Garmin Connect app on my phone, I opened the GPX file with that app. Then synched to my Explorer 2 bike computer. The route is then found in saved courses.
Easy tarmac roads up to Averbury, stopped for lunch at NT café. Outside seating meant I could keep bike close. Toilets are in rather a small room.
Heading west then south after Averbury I wished I had fitted some 40 profile tyres with at least a touring type of tread instead of the 35 profile road tyre. Stoney offroad sections and grass stretch. Some parts of the lanes where flooded to depth of about 10cm in Oct 24.
My bike computer tried to direct me down Jugglers lane which is now a private road. I turned left and in about 100m turned left again down a lane that runs parallel. From Devizes back to Pewsey heading east the roads where smooth and mostly flat. The route follows a small section of NCN routes 403 and 4. Ref Sustrans website. Thank you for maintain this website with the routes from the book.
Great summer ride yesterday on this varied and extremely interesting route, the Lost Lanes package of book and supporting files enabled a brilliant ride as a day visit to an area we have never cycled in before. The excellent descriptions from the book really brought the landscape to life, thank you,
Definitely a strange Land!
ps GPX navigation worked without a hitch.
Thank you, Jack: another great route. Always useful to have a well thought out route when riding in a new area (..a strange land even…) rather than wasting time on overgrown bridleways and busy roads. Recommend LL to any rider.
May 26: Coate Rd is closed — section just after you leave K&A canal as you leave Devizes. They are building a new housing estate so guess it may be closed a while. Can detour either north via Horton Rd, or South via Etchilhampton, or be very lucky and find someone who will open the Heras fencing for you.
GPX file correct to avoid initial Jugglers Lane section as noted above.
Rode it on 38mm Panaracer SK (small knob) but could have got away with slick 35mm tyres as it has been a dry spring.