Cycling: Sally-in-the-Woods
Posted: 05 Oct 2009, 19:06
A nice day again on Sunday, but as I was nursing a twinge of sciatica I thought I'd avoid the off-road stuff for this ride. I devised a route using unclassified Wiltshire lanes, with much of it running through thickly wooded hills. Sally-in-the-Woods is an area just to the east of Bath and named after an old lady who used to live alone in the woods. That's not an official name but everybody in a wide radius knows it as that. I wish I'd taken more notice of the contour lines when I was planning the route and the fact that one hill had double chevrons for a descent and another had single chevrons for an ascent. For those unfamiliar with Ordnance Survey maps, these chevrons are used sparingly to denote the very steepest of gradients. As you can see in the fourth picture I plummeted down a 25% (1 in 4) hill with a right angle corner halfway down. That's a drop of one metre every four metres and even with hydraulic discs and newly fitted pads, they were fading noticeably by the bottom but it was too steep to walk down so I didn't have a lot of choice. A bit worrying though 
Anyway, here's some pics.
Ian
Anyway, here's some pics.
Ian
Saying that.. you didn't come past the pub yesterday did you 
