Lincolnshire is not (completely) flat!

Nice one, aside from that

Nice one, aside from that shitty overtake @5:16, just why when there’s the rest of the road to use ffs!

The back roads are pretty good in Lincs when the tin canners are not so frequent, low pop density makes it better than most places, similar to East Riding (where it is VERY flat!)

There’s a marked 10% at South Ferriby that drops down into the village into an S bend, you can’t see the road ahead due to the drop/turn, a 70 degree right at the bottom makes it interesting and you have to hold the outside to keep your speed or if you’ve got the line/speed wrong there’s a junction on the left you can bail to. I think the ToY went along there at some point in the past. There’s also plenty of shorter climbs just South of SF, Saxby All Saints toward A15 it’s 246ft/.5mile so circa 9%, parallel to that at Bonby up Middlegate Lane toward the A15 it’s 223ft/.5mile – 8%.

I never really got to explore West of Hull as a youth, RL was my thing then in the 80s and it wasn’t until I was 18 and at college that I did my first audax event, a 70mile BP starting somewhere just outside Hull, crossing at Goole and coming back around via Normanton and over the bridge. glorious sunshine for the first 30mins then peed it down for the next 5.5! A college friend who had been into cycling a while and invited me (and was a rake) bombed off with the rest in a group and I spent much of the rest of the time on my own, thank god I’d brought a proper (non cycling) waterproof jacket!

I did that on a Falcon no name 10 speed I’d originally bought with my paper round money from Halfords, took me out North and East of Hull and to school and college for 3 years, how times have changed in bike tech in 35 years!