#CamRideHome on 29.04.2016, the Reach Ride Explore

For the Bank Holiday weekend of the Reach Ride, #CamRideHome explored the city sections of the Reach Ride.




And here's the video of the route, with pictures along the way!

#CamRideHome on 29.04.2016, the Reach Ride Explore (Go HD see * below)

0:12 Setting off
0:26 Kings College Chapel
0:45 First wait for everyone
0:59 Onto the delightfully green Jesus Green
1:10 Another wait!
1:30 The river looking great
2:00 The Technology Museum
2:10 Cows!
2:20 The Green Dragon Bridge (which permits cycling!)
2:55 Back over the new cycle bridge
3:16 Waiting at the traffic lights, twice
3:34 Newmarket Road Retail Park
3:57 Cut through to York Road
4:19 People go the wrong way!
4:33 Crossing Mill Road a driver bullies their way through without priority (see https://www.cyclestreets.net/location/81074)
5:20 Pasing the cycle counter on Parkers Peice
5:43 Onto Downing Street Contraflow Cyclelane
6:00 Like "a sinner we crawl" back to The Mill


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A Late Sunday Afternoon Lazy Ride

I just fancied a short late afternoon lazy ride, which in the late spring sunshine felt glorious.




And here's the video of the route, with pictures along the way!

A Late Sunday Afternoon Lazy Ride (Go HD see * below)

0:12 Start a bit late on Brooklands Avenue
0:56 Lots of people by The Mill
1:10 Town centre is crowded!
1:45 Jesus Green, and lots more people
2:10 Some cows sleeping just before The Fort St George
2:31 Riverside
2:52 Stoubridge Common. more poeple, more cows
3:15 A big horse and a little horse
3:41 Onto an empty Ditton Walk
4:01 Crossing Coldhams Common
4:57 Mill Road, and a driver going the wrong way down Sedgwick Street (see YouTube clip here)
5:12 Carter Railway Bridge
5:46 Into the Triangle and almost back to Brooklands Avenue


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Mill Road Winter Fair

Another delightful day at the Mill Road Winter Fair. Thousands wander the street unimpeded by cars, enjoying the music, stalls, shops, and each other. This is how a community comes together and creates a vibrant happy place, whilst building up local trade in local, independent businesses.


In super HD, click on the square box bottom right to get full screen, well worth it!

And that's a really important point. The current Communities Minister, Erice Pickles, believes that the best way to encourage shopping is allow people driving cars to go where they want, park where they want. This demonstrates that doing exactly the opposite does far, far more. Just try to imagine this amount of people trying to shop here, but in cars. It's just not physically possible.

By stopping people driving here, two things have been created.

• A pleasant place that people on foot or bike want to come to
• Many, many more people can fit in the space

So, the real question here isn't whether it should or should not happen, by why doesn't it happen more often, even once a month.

Anyway, here's a proper speed version of the fantastic @jacquiandgeoff playing at @OutspokenCycle powered music, showing how well biking and music fit!


Click on the square box bottom right to get full screen, well worth it!