[Closed] "You drove to the Lake District to ride your bike!"

Grum has it. When I lived in London I found the time required to get into some decent countryside limited my opportunities to do so. I'm sure that if I'd been even more into eating out, cinema, theatre etc. then I might have stayed longer.

The Lakes is a 90 minute drive from here too. If I drove, I imagine I'd happily pop over the A66 to ride in the Lakes.

Like the OP, I live in the Peak District but I'll occasionally drive 90 mins or so each way to ride in the Lakes, Yorkshire, North Wales etc.

I like the change of scene every once in a while.

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Flew 8 hours each way for today's 75k road ride

Where is this great riding an hour from London? Do you have to use the Chunnel?

There is loads. Chilterns, North Downs, Swinley, Gorrick M3/M4 locations.

Great?? All these are on my door step and have ridden some good stuff but great is a bit of a stretch.