Cycling to every place in Warwickshire - 50% complete

[@Stevehatesgravel]

Lovely video cheers 🚴🏽‍♀️👍

[@paulbielakovski3217]

Fantastic! I also like that you started with Willey and ended with Haseley Knob

[@msscoventry]

Interesting to see some of the villages, roads and lanes I cycle on east of Coventry

[@shroom2ma]

I've been riding from Tamworth (the town is in Staffordshire, but I'm on the Warks side) into Leicestershire and Derbyshire for somewhere that feels like far and for roads I don't already know well, so a lot of these places I've been through recently! No Man's Heath has a pub in it called "The Four Counties", where four counties meet inside the building. I'd recommend Ratcliffe Culey, Sheepy Magna and other little places between Atherstone & Twycross, and the lanes between Atherstone & Coleshill. Lots of sweet little villages out there!

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@shroom2ma Wow, I didn’t know that about the pub (that is so cool). Yes, I’ve been through places like Ratcliffe Culey and Sheepy Magna on the way to Warwickshire. The rides I do with the cycling club often go on the lanes around there to a cafe stop in Twycross.

[@ieuanstroud5542]

Nice to see roads I know. Hope you keep enjoying your rides to Warwickshire.

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@ieuanstroud5542 I’ve been enjoying it so far, but the new places that I haven’t ridden to yet are getting further away, so I’ll probably wait until next year to make more progress.

[@aureljk]

Great video. Maybe next year you come and 🚴🏻 in Ireland. It’s amazing, with a few greenways only for bikes like Waterford Greenway or Limerick Greenway.

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@aureljk That sounds great, visiting Ireland is definitely something I want to do in the future

[@zedddddful]

Cool video thanks given me some ideas for new routes get bored doing the same old loop.

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@zedddddful Thanks, it’s a great way of exploring (although it will mainly be long rides now, because I’ve ridden to all of the ‘local’ places).

[@MrAnon-2024]

What a great idea and a great way to visit new areas. I take it you will have planned these routes using ordnance survey maps?

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@MrAnon-2024 Thanks - when I cycled to every place in Leicestershire (where I live), it surprised me how many places I hadn’t even heard of. I’ve planned them using Google Maps to find the boundary (with a Wikipedia list of places in Warwickshire to check against) and Garmin Connect to plot the routes.

[@MrAnon-2024]

@@rebeccalaurel1471 ah, right. That sounds like a better way of planning the routes. Have you heard of Veloviewer? Basically, it’s a division of the world into a grid of squares that you ‘collect’ as you ride through them. I’ve rode to areas that I would never have done if I hadn’t been looking to collect a specific tile 😉

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@MrAnon-2024 Yes, I have (someone on social media mentioned it to me a couple of years ago) and I think it is wonderful. I’ve got a couple of off-road / canal routes that I need to do to make my square any bigger.

[@MrAnon-2024]

@@rebeccalaurel1471 oh, possible video for when you go out collecting those tiles 😉 Look forward to that 👍

[@geoffbrompton822]

What happened to the elephant bike ?

[@rebeccalaurel1471]

@@geoffbrompton822 I’ve still got it but haven’t used it much over the last few years, because I’ve got a commuter bike with a pannier rack now (and don’t tend to carry more than that)