My 1st week on clipless

philthy said:

gravel/dirt tracking it between West Newcastle & Prudhoe along the Tyne (For any north
easterners on here) this is a great little route (72 on the national cycle network I think) so
far I love them.

Hi Phil,

I regularly do one of the Newburn / Wylam / Prudhoe / Bywell combinations. Has the fallen tree
between Clara Vale golf course and the boathouse been moved yet?

Pete angeltec co uk

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gravel/dirt tracking it between West Newcastle & Prudhoe along the Tyne

(For

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any north easterners on here) this is a great little route (72 on the national cycle network I
think) so far I love them.

Hi Phil,

I regularly do one of the Newburn / Wylam / Prudhoe / Bywell combinations. Has the fallen tree
between Clara Vale golf course and the boathouse been moved yet?

Yeah it has, spent about half an hour helping a group of old biddies over it at the weekend ;-) but
it was gone last night. I tend to do this route a lot as I only spend 100 meters on the road door to
door (I'm in Denton Burn!) which is great, as after being hit by a reckless car driver in my teens
I've never been very happy on the roads since :-( Phil

philthy said:

Yeah it has, spent about half an hour helping a group of old biddies over it at the weekend ;-) but
it was gone last night.

What a gent - that's the stuff :-)

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I tend to do this route a lot as I only spend 100 meters on the road door to door (I'm in Denton
Burn!) which is great, as after being hit by a reckless car driver in my teens I've never been very
happy on the roads since :-(

Actually I find I don't have to use the roads very much as so much of the pavements are shared now -
you can virtually use the pavement all the way from Scotswood Road into Newcastle. I'm at Crawcrook
so the only roadie bit is through Ryton and down the bank - there's another shared pavement from
there to Blaydon. I used to think it was a cheap plan by the council to put these blue
pedestrian/cycle signs up in order to meet their 'green' quota, but I don't blame them as you hardly
ever see a pedestrian on them.

Pete

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I tend to do this route a lot as I only spend 100 meters on the road door

to

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door (I'm in Denton Burn!) which is great, as after being hit by a

reckless

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car driver in my teens I've never been very happy on the roads since :-(

Actually I find I don't have to use the roads very much as so much of the pavements are shared now
- you can virtually use the pavement all the way from Scotswood Road into Newcastle. I'm at
Crawcrook so the only roadie bit is through Ryton and down the bank - there's another shared
pavement from there to Blaydon. I used to think it was a cheap plan by the council to put these
blue pedestrian/cycle signs up in order to meet their 'green' quota, but I don't blame them as you
hardly ever see a pedestrian on them.

As it appens when I cycle to work, all I have to do is nip down Denton Road, to the derelict Black &
white pub (Don't ya love scotswood!) & from there it's cycle track (72 again) all the way to the
quay side & a quick uphill to the Northumbria Uni :-). The only dodgy bit is swerving to avoid the
glass on the Scotswood stretch. I haven't tried the Gateshead side of the tyne since I took cycling
up again. I'll have to take a look about. You don't know of any sites/resources that list cycling
friendly routes round our way by any chance. Thanks Phil

philthy said:

again. I'll have to take a look about. You don't know of any sites/resources that list cycling
friendly routes round our way by any chance.

Taken from google - some a bit general and further afield:

northumberland.gov.ukcypublic.htmlOpen ↗

mapsworldwide.comm2101.htmOpen ↗

sustrans.org.uk989881 JP final%20report.pdfOpen ↗

Pete

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I regularly do one of the Newburn / Wylam / Prudhoe / Bywell combinations. Has the fallen tree
between Clara Vale golf course and the boathouse been moved yet?

Do any of you lads know the Runhead in Ryton or Keelman(?) in Newburn? I live in Milton Keynes,
but come from Ryton. I usually try to ride around there (and always drink around there) when I'm
up visiting. Along the Tyne etc.

Photos from last time I was up there: chris.wheeler.namecorbridge2003.shtmlOpen ↗

Hi Chris, I don't know the Runhead, but the Big lamp Brewery (Keelman) is a great stop off, Which
I'm bypassing at the mo due to trying to lose another half a stone to ease my BP*. Once thats done &
doc is happy I'll be stopping off for the odd pint of foaming brown stuff again :-)

Pics are great. God your mates do look [censored] ;-) 30 miles in jeans I bet his legs were red raw
after that one. Cya Phil

*I'm 34, 5'10, 12 stone & have the BP of a 50 year old thanks to some hereditary [censored]...
Lifes a [censored]..

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again. I'll have to take a look about. You don't know of any

sites/resources

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that list cycling friendly routes round our way by any chance.

Taken from google - some a bit general and further afield:

northumberland.gov.ukcypublic.htmlOpen ↗

mapsworldwide.comm2101.htmOpen ↗

sustrans.org.uk989881 JP final%20report.pdfOpen ↗

Thanks a lot Pete I'll take a look Phil

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I regularly do one of the Newburn / Wylam / Prudhoe / Bywell combinations. Has the fallen tree
between Clara Vale golf course and the boathouse been moved yet?

Do any of you lads know the Runhead in Ryton or Keelman(?) in Newburn? I live in Milton Keynes,
but come from Ryton. I usually try to ride around there (and always drink around there) when I'm
up visiting. Along the Tyne etc.

Photos from last time I was up there: chris.wheeler.namecorbridge2003.shtmlOpen ↗

Hi Chris, I don't know the Runhead, but the Big lamp Brewery (Keelman) is a great stop off, Which
I'm bypassing at the mo due to trying to lose another half a stone to ease my BP*. Once thats done
& doc is happy I'll be stopping off for the odd pint of foaming brown stuff again :-)

The Runhead (my start/end point) is on the main drag through Ryton, so it's probably a bit off-route
if you mtb like I do. There are a couple of other pubs on route, but I forget their names.

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Pics are great. God your mates do look [censored] ;-) 30 miles in jeans I bet his legs were red raw
after that one.

Thanks 🙂 Don't know how he managed to do it in jeans - I started feeling it even with cycling
shorts. Still, we were all dutifully holding up the Runhead bar that evening, so it can't have been
that bad ;-)

I'm going up for the bank holiday weekend, so watch out for a lunatic on an old black Saracen :-)

Oh yeah, and to get back on topic, I've got SPDs but not the pedals/cleats. The shoes are a whole
lot better than trainers for energy transmission thru the pedals. I'll definitely get the
cleats/pedals soon.

-Chris

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Oh yeah, and to get back on topic, I've got SPDs but not the pedals/cleats. The shoes are a whole
lot better than trainers for energy transmission thru the pedals. I'll definitely get the
cleats/pedals soon.

Well I got a set of Shimano M515 from
cyclexpress.co.ukPDM515 SPD Pedals 169.aspOpen ↗ for a super expensive 19.99 &
they arrived next morning so far build quality & ease of use seems excellent. So now there's no
excuse ;-) Phil