Ride Entry – 8th March 2010
by admin on Mar.08, 2010, under Uncategorized
Bike: Roly
Distance: 27 miles
Not as far as I wanted to go but this (and further subsequent rides around Newcastle), was merely a data gathering exercise. I need to find out where the fun roads are and where the not so fun roads are first before doing some decent distances.
So, road down to Whitely Bay, ok. Road along to Blyth, ok. A189, FUCKING NIGHTMARE!!! Imagine a motorway with no lights on it. Then think about riding a bike along it. I turned around at that point, my memory based map not being able to remember any more. Back to Blyth, now it started getting proper fun. The road back to Whitley bay was uphill but smooth and the strong tail wind made it so awesome! I was proper caning it along for about 3 miles at 28mph! Up a hill!!! Brilliant! I passed a couple of blokes on bikes going the same way. YEEEHAAA!
Then on to TyneMouth and North Shields and then turned and headed into Newcastle and completed an ambition of mine to approach the Billy Mill roundabout (see Rogers Profanisaurus for explanation) and then headed for Newcastle. Note to self:- A193 into Newcastle is not a fun road. But after nearly dying 17 times I gave up and headed back to the hotel.
Tomorrow Newcastle town centre and maybe up to the other side of Gateshead for the angel of the north.
