Agree with timc … you got to start at the Pier Head/Liver Buildings. If you want a real good view to get you on the way … cycle up the lock flight from Stanley dock on to the Vauxhall canal level … and look back towards the river from the last lock before you turn left onto the canal towpath which heads north. You can access the lock flight though a tiny open doorway in a big brick wall opposite the massive brick built tobacco warehouse. Cross over to the left of the canal at the first bridge available, and cycle up the lock flight towpath.
The Bootle – Rimrose Valley stretch is OK if you keep moving and don’t engage the locals in conversation. I’m surprised to hear about the air pistols! Ride the Bootle-Rimrose stretch twice a day, 4 days a week and never seen or heard (or felt!) any one taking a pot shot. Is this a new bit of entertainment for the local hoodies? Not seen anything too scary in the last 7 years on that stretch … guess it depends on what you’re used to!
(OT) Funniest thing I saw on the LL at Norris Green was two PC’s on their kitted out HT’s coming towards me in the distance heading south from Broadway Bridge. One male PC seemed to have a very large cardboard box balanced on the bars and the WPC had two plastic shopping bags, hanging one on each grip. It looked so peculiar as they headed towards me wobbling a bit under their loads.. It could have been just a bit of shopping at Broadway as they headed back to Eaton Road Station…. but I doubted it. WTF, I just had to stop and ask … (I’d spoken to them before on several occasions).
I was right. They’d confiscated a whole box of Stella and the two bags full of assorted beer from the scalls on Broadway Bridge, no doubt nicked from the Broadway shops; they told me with a slight grin. I didn’t ask for an invite to the Eaton Road party that night! The image of this police bicycle beer run kept me amused for the last 8 miles home anyway! Hope they got the goods back without incident! Bet they didn’t train for that on the Bikey Training Course!
