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Issue 6 • 2015
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Crossing :
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CROIX
DE FER:
BIKE TEST
HAPPY
TWENTIETH:
INTERVIEW
WITH
MARTYN
BRUNT
Rides
close to
railways
Flatlanding
in the Fen
Country
Products & Tech • Planning a tour and much more
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Welcome to Seven Day Cyclist for April 2015
Well, as ever, April brings lighter evenings and the pleasure of longer
midweek rides. The daffs are doing well and the bluebells will soon be
here; there’s some welcome warmth in the air and the prospect of the
scent of May blossom on the way. Anticipation fills the air in all aspects
of cycling; physical, spiritual, aesthetic.
In this edition, Mark Shelton gives a few tips on planning that long
continental tour with friends. I have already been told of the plans of
some readers to head for Orkney, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and
France. Won’t get abroad for long this year, though the glens they are
a-calling and I anticipate a couple of Highland tours. Even so, it is all
springtime anticipation.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the government grant that
allowed Sustrans to develop the National cycle Network. Whilst the NCN
is not held dear by every cyclist, it has changed the way many people
think of cycling and much of it demonstrates what can be achieved
even with sporadic funding.
Wherever you go, may you tour outstrip the pleasure of anticipation
Steve
cover image courtesy of Mark Shelton
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CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Jacobson
Paul Wagner
Jill Phillip
Mark Shelton
PRODUCT TESTS AND
TECHNICAL
Michael Stenning
EDITOR
Stephen Dyster
DESIGN
Colin Halliday
CONTACTS
See details on
www.sevendaycyclist.co .uk
Contents
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Flatlanding
The Joy of Lists
Products
There’s More to Cycling
Inter City
The Brompton Goes Wild
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Ten Minute Tune-up
Tested: Genesis Croix de Fer 2.0
Happy Twentieth
Border Crossing
The Good Old Days
Rear Rack
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FLAT
LANDING
flatlanding
Charlie Faringdon heads far from the hills.
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FLAT
LANDING
The River Great
Ouse at Ely
(courtesy of
Stephen Dyster)
O
n the whole I like hills. New views,
freewheeling, working up an appetite,
craggy hillsides, open moor and
rushing streams, all make the hill a
desirable part of cycle touring. So, let’s
go for a ride on the flat. Having touched on the
Fenland of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and
Norfolk once or twice, but never seriously, it had
to be done.
Ely is a good place to start. The little city has
good railway connections, apart from being a
very attractive spot on the River Great Ouse and
possessing one of our most spectacular cathedrals.
I longed with anticipation to arrive on the early
morning train and find the springtime mist lying
over surrounding fields with the great lantern of the
cathedral soaring above the foggy sea. As it was, I
made do with bright sunshine.
OVER WARDY HILL AND FAR AWAY
Planning wise, I’d decided to ride a clockwise circuit
along the southern fen edge and then curve north
and see where I got to. The first port of call though
was the intriguingly named Wardy Hill. Cycling
through a city and finding the correct road out often
is the major challenge of any tour, even with a GPS
I often get it wrong. So the presence of sign for the
Hereward Way walking route helped. Hereward the
Wake, was, “as every skoolboy know”, the rebellious
Saxon who frustrated the Norman invader from his
base amidst the marshes and mosses in the Isle of Ely.
By the church of St. Peter ad Vincula at Coveney,
I took a look at the GPS and noted that it said 10m
of elevation above sea level. Wardy Hill, in the same
parish, turned out to be 8m above sea level. Ha,
thought I, see the fens are not completely flat. The
centre of Ely had topped the twenty metre mark. At
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