All posts tagged TYPE: Confidence Builder

A flat, easy, 14 miles ride on the Nickey Line and quiet roads to Harpenden.

START: Active Dacorum Hub, Grovehill/Woodhall Farm Adventure Playground, Redbourn Road, Hemel Hempstead HP2 7BA.

ROUTE PASSES: Redbourn; Harpenden.

TAKES IN: Nickey Line.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A flat, easy, traffic free 7 mile ride on the Nickey Line to Redbourn.

START: Active Dacorum Hub, Grovehill/Woodhall Farm Adventure Playground, Redbourn Road, Hemel Hempstead HP2 7BA.

ROUTE PASSES: Redbourn.

TAKES IN: Nickey Line.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A 21 mile ride into the green belt to the east of Watford, mostly quiet roads with some off-road sections.

START: Watford Cycle Hub, Chaffinch Lane WD18 9QD. 

ROUTE PASSES: Oxhey Activity Park; Radlett Road Playing Fields; Letchmore Heath; Colney Street; Smug Oak; Meriden.

TAKES IN: Ebury Way.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A 22 mile pleasant ride on country lanes through farm land but with a few busy sections of road.

START: Car park at The Nap, Kings Langley WD4 8ETCar park at The Nap, Kings Langley WD4 8ET.

ROUTE PASSES: Bedmond; Potters Crouch; St Albans; Harpenden; Hemel Hempstead.

TAKES IN: Gorhambury.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A lovely 34 mile ride, no challenging hills and just under 3/4 of the route is off-road, mainly bridlepaths.

START:  Watford Cycle Hub, Chaffinch Lane WD18 9QD.

ROUTE PASSES: Oxhey Park; Radlett Road Playing Fields; Watford Rugby Club; Colney Street; London Colney; Water End; Colney Heath; St Albans; Bricket Wood; Garston.

TAKES IN: Alban Way; Bricket Wood Common.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A 17 mile ride into the Chilterns on quiet lanes.

START: Cassiobury car park, Gade Avenue, Watford WD18 7LG.

ROUTE PASSES: Belsize/Chipperfield; Flaunden; Sarratt.

TAKES IN: Cassiobury Park, Whippendell Woods.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A 26 mile ride to the Highfield Oval in Harpenden mostly on quiet lanes, bridleways and cycle paths.

START: Free car park, near to Leverstock Green shops. Post code is HP3 8QG.

ROUTE PASSES: St Albans; Wheathampstead; Harpenden.

TAKES IN: Gorhambury Estate.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A pleasant 12 mile suburban meander, mostly on road.

START: Watford Cycle Hub, Chaffinch Lane WD18 9QD.

ROUTE PASSES: Northwood; Pinner Green; Carpenters Park.

TAKES IN: Ebury Way.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

A 7 mile ride, mostly on quiet lanes and cycle paths, with some side streets and traffic free sections and a short stetch of road which is busier at peak, commuter times.

START: Timberlake pay and display car park (WD24 4JL).

ROUTE PASSES: Meriden; Bricket Wood; Garston.

TAKES IN: Bricket Wood Common.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS

An easy 11 mile ride through back streets and cycle paths to “lang leah” granted to the abbot of St Albans in the time of Edward the Confessor.

START: Timberlake pay and display car park (WD24 4JL) across the road from the Rugby Club.

ROUTE PASSES: Meriden; Leavesden; Abbots Langley.

For full details of this route and to download the GPS file and cue sheet see RideWithGPS