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You improve them and I’ll use them

Have you noticed the amount of cycling paths and lanes that are appearing all other the place?
Wel they are popping up everywhere in an effort my the government and local authorities to get use to get out and use a bike more often and leave the car at home.

Even in Sudbury on a new housing estate there have been special lanes made for cyclists, which is great, I love the fact that us cyclists are finally being thought of.
Yet do I use any of these services provided?
Nope!

Now I can already hear the cries from the motorists out there but let me explain this first.
The reason I do not use these special features made especially for me the cyclist is that they are not suitable for me the cyclist, or in worse cases they are simply un-usable.
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Tour De Tendering

This post is more of a congratulation post for Lucy than anything else; on Sunday she rode her first 100miles!
Now let me explain how this happened…

A few months back Colin asked if I was interested in riding in this years Tour de Tendering, a charity bike ride based around the Tendering area. Being the person I am I jumped at the idea, but then promptly forgot all about it.
Last Thursday at the the Time Trial event I met up with Colin and he reminded me it was this coming week end and they had all signed up for the 100mile course (2 laps of the 50 mile circuit)
Fair enough, I did say I would ride and it looked to be a good crowd heading over, but then Lucy joined the conversation trying to join in and some one mentioned the ride and some how the words “yes I’ll ride” came flowing out of her mouth without a second thought.

The second thought arrived in the car on the way home; realism of what she had signed up for set in. We opted to sleep on it and see how she felt in the morning, in the morning I think brute force had taken over and she was determined to ride. So the first part of the week end was taken up by making sure we had a bike that would make the 100 miles.
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The UK Etape

A major, unique event in the cyclosportive season, following the route of stage 1 of the Tour de France on its historic UK Grand Depart, the event will take up to 5000 riders on an epic 120 mile journey from beautiful and historic Greenwich out of London and through the Kent countryside to finish in Canterbury, in the shadow of the city’s ancient cathedral. A must-do, once-in-a-lifetime chance for any serious cyclosportive rider to blaze the trail of Le Tour itself

Sounds awesome doesn’t it?
Lucky I’ve got my ticket!
That’s right on July 1st I will be one of the lucky 5,000 riders to ride the same course as the Tour De France. Like the exert claims, this will be a once in a lifetime ride; well unless I try to have another go next year.
For more details try the official Tour website or the Everyday Cycling web site.