Cycle route : Wivenhoe and Elmstead Market

Most of my cycling routes are circular ones to the south, west and north of Colchester. I tend not to look to the east, as getting out of town in that direction isn’t particularly easy, and you’ve got the busy A133 and B1027 heading out to the coast in that direction, and they aren’t particularly [...]

LEPRA Colchester Family Bike Ride 12th September 2010

LEPRA are running a charity bike ride on 12th September in Colchester. On mainly off-road routes and cycle paths, with both 6 and 12-mile options, you can find out more about the event, which starts at Philip Morant School here

Essex Days Out may well be represented on the day, and we may even do some [...]

Cycle Route : the Hills of North Essex

The BBC News website had an article on Saturday – ‘Rise of the Mamils (Middle Aged Men in Lycra)’ (link) which looked at men who take up cycling between the ages of 33 and 45. Sadly, I realised I was a couple of years older than that when I took up cycling – but I [...]

Cycle route : Colchester, Fordham, Mount Bures, Chappel, Coggeshall, Tiptree, Layer.

I’ve posted a couple of my regular cycle routes already, one to the N and NE, covering Dedham and Manningtree (click here), and one to the S, covering Tiptree, Tolleshunt, Gt. Wigborough, and Peldon (click here).

St. John the Baptist Church at Layer, and Essex Wildlife Trust at Abberton Reservoir

The weather has been really cold recently, but finally today it warmed up enough for us to go out for a bike ride.First we went to Layer de la Haye. We cycled through Abbey Fields and then past Merville Barracks and  up Layer Road. We went past the sad sight of the old Layer Road Football [...]