Oh what fun! (a ride report of sorts)

"Patter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Cycled round town a bit, was going to take the old railway path out from
Darlo
to MSG but the council are digging that up for a road, so I crossed town
and
went the other way up to Walworth, most of the way to Piercebridge then
back
down Coniscliffe road.

C'mon Stephen only folk with local knowledge would realise that MSG is
Middleton St George and not mono-sodium glutamate ;-)

Get thissen to Richmond. There's nice pubs, lasses and pie shops waiting to
be taken advantage of ;-)

Having left Darlington for Leeds over thirty years ago I'm no longer
familiar with the highways and byways favoured by leisure cyclists. What
sort of impact has the cycling scheme thingy that Darlington was successful
at bidding for been? What new facilities for cyclists have been introduced?

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Pedals spinning freely, tyres purring on the road, metal singing, a
complete
symphony of man & machine.

Overall distance & time: no idea, but I was in top gear a lot & out over
an
hour. Now if I could just move the panniers a few inches backwards ...

I was intending to pedal up to Darlington next week but I've just
resurrected my motor cycle and it needs a decent run so I'm taking the lazy
option.

vernon said:

Get thissen to Richmond. There's nice pubs, lasses and pie shops waiting to
be taken advantage of ;-)

Now there's an idea, might even make cycling over Scotch Corner worthwhile.

Quoted message said:

Having left Darlington for Leeds over thirty years ago I'm no longer
familiar with the highways and byways favoured by leisure cyclists. What
sort of impact has the cycling scheme thingy that Darlington was successful
at bidding for been? What new facilities for cyclists have been introduced?

We've got a fair number of shared use & separated use (with white lines on)
pavement plus a lot of newly discovered & signposted off road track, mostly
rough lanes but the old Barnard Castle rail line and a few other central off
road bits are tarmaced. There's a pavement cyclepath gradually working its way
round the inner ring-road at the moment, so that'll be getting a bit more
pleasant to cycle round and the council have decided to signpost odd
zig-zagging residential roads as "approved routes".

There's a Darlington Cycling blog at bikedarlington.blogspot.com with
information on whats happening round here.

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