Late’ish yesterday afternoon I was in St Neots, wanting to go to roughly Sawbridgeworth. Going direct is not the most stimulating of journeys, so I went ‘cross-country’ instead. I wasn’t disappointed.
Here is a copy of the route. Note, I made it from the track, created by the BMW Connected app, which I was also experimenting with. As such it might have a couple of glitches in it but it’s probably not too bad.
The route takes some very small roads, not much more than a car wide in some places, with broken surfaces. I rode it after Friday heavy overnight rain, the roads were sometimes still wet, with autumn leaves and gravel, washed from the fields. But, as I was riding a 1600, you could definitely ride it all on a GS. In fact, it is near enough made for it.
Stretches of the route are almost like the Ardennes, with open stretches, then small sunken lanes. So much so it is sometimes hard to remember that you are within spitting distance of London and riding in one of the most crowded areas of the UK. In short, it is ‘very rural’.
https://www.myrouteapp.com/en/social/route/6756489?mode=share
Bar the pictures of the geese, I lifted the screen shots from MyRoute’s excellent ability to display Google Street View but they should give you a pretty good idea of what it’s was like.
PS People moan about Google but their Street View mapping of much of the world is, I believe, on of the great ‘free gifts’ of the 21st century. These are sometimes very small roads. To be able to see them and share the pictures, laid upon a GPX track is quite incredible.
Here is a copy of the route. Note, I made it from the track, created by the BMW Connected app, which I was also experimenting with. As such it might have a couple of glitches in it but it’s probably not too bad.
The route takes some very small roads, not much more than a car wide in some places, with broken surfaces. I rode it after Friday heavy overnight rain, the roads were sometimes still wet, with autumn leaves and gravel, washed from the fields. But, as I was riding a 1600, you could definitely ride it all on a GS. In fact, it is near enough made for it.
Stretches of the route are almost like the Ardennes, with open stretches, then small sunken lanes. So much so it is sometimes hard to remember that you are within spitting distance of London and riding in one of the most crowded areas of the UK. In short, it is ‘very rural’.
https://www.myrouteapp.com/en/social/route/6756489?mode=share
Bar the pictures of the geese, I lifted the screen shots from MyRoute’s excellent ability to display Google Street View but they should give you a pretty good idea of what it’s was like.
PS People moan about Google but their Street View mapping of much of the world is, I believe, on of the great ‘free gifts’ of the 21st century. These are sometimes very small roads. To be able to see them and share the pictures, laid upon a GPX track is quite incredible.