It's a great piece of road..

[2PedalsTez]

I know there are those roads that cyclists refer to as being great for many reasons. But how about where the council has resurfaced it and transformed it?

Try..

Old Winchester Hill Lane (West Meon) - Now perfect from top to bottom making it a joy to ride up (along with the views)

Or

Portsdown Hill (Wickham side) - Same again *and* they have even painted a proper cycle lane to ensure you don't get beeped all the time!

 

[jackm]

Found a lovely lane just outside Gloucester a few weeks ago......................Council have now dumped a load of pebbledash all over it( I mean resurfaced it) and now it is bloody awful, bumpy and rough as hell for about 5 miles

 

[Jonathing]

Portsdown Hill (Wickham side) - Same again *and* they have even painted a proper cycle lane to ensure you don't get beeped all the time!

The new surface on Southwick Hill road is certainly a great improvement on the old one, especially on the southbound side, replacing that tyre-width fissure that was always trying to grab my front wheel as I descended! However the oily residue left by the resurfacing work did make the climb equally treacherous for a couple of weeks after they did it.

 

[Chris.IOW]

Found a lovely lane just outside Gloucester a few weeks ago......................Council have now dumped a load of pebbledash all over it( I mean resurfaced it) and now it is bloody awful, bumpy and rough as hell for about 5 miles

They have done that on loads of roads here as well. Bloody awful to cycle along.

 

[JonnyBlade]

I know there are those roads that cyclists refer to as being great for many reasons. But how about where the council has resurfaced it and transformed it?

Try..

Old Winchester Hill Lane (West Meon) - Now perfect from top to bottom making it a joy to ride up (along with the views)

Or

Portsdown Hill (Wickham side) - Same again *and* they have even painted a proper cycle lane to ensure you don't get beeped all the time!

I'll be up both of those later today and agreed, lovely jubbly

 

[lulubel]

They have done that on loads of roads here as well. Bloody awful to cycle along.

They turned all my favourite cycling routes in Cornwall into gravel tracks shortly before we left. That reminds me I should complain less about Spanish roads.

 

[dand_uk]

Portsdown Hill (Wickham side) - Same again *and* they have even painted a proper cycle lane to ensure you don't get beeped all the time!

I didn't know there was a cycle lane here? Didn't think the road was wide enough for proper ones...

Hi from Southampton

 

[youngoldbloke]

What is the point of 'surface dressing'? Lovely stretch of lanes near here finally rescued from near impassible earlier this year after many reports to 'fill that hole'. Dreaded 'road closed from .....' signs have now appeared and yellow spray painted 's/d' and job no. marks on the road. Piles of gravel in local lay by. It will take weeks for the road to return to a safely rideable condition, and within a year bald patches will appear, the current smoothness turned into a bumpy, unpredictable surface. Why do councils waste (our) money on this practice?

 

[david1701]

They turned all my favourite cycling routes in Cornwall into gravel tracks shortly before we left. That reminds me I should complain less about Spanish roads.

where aways? I might know a few

My fave is riding out through widemouth bay from Bude its a long not too steep climb with GORGEOUS views and sometimes enough cross wind to put me in the hedge

 

[lulubel]

Far, far south west. We lived in the most westerly town in mainland Britain - St Just.

 

[david1701]

Penzance way aint it? Outside my sphere of influence