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DISCLAIMER. MOUNTAIN BIKING CAN BE DANGEROUS. YOU JOIN US AT YOUR OWN RISK.

SAFETY BRIEFING.

  • Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
  • Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
  • Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
  • When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
  • Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
  • Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
  • Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.

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Re: Cambridge to Houghton Mill

It's quite an easy route if you look at some landranger or even free cycle mapping?!?

Re: Cambridge to Houghton Mill

From Cambridge, I would go west to Cotton, Hardwick then Dry Drayton over the blue bridge.
From there I'd drop down to Bar Hill and take the perimeter track which links to a path to Lolworth, Boxworth, Conington.
You've then got to get to Hilton, either by road via Fenstanton or by road and Bridleway via Elsworth.
There's then a bridleway to Hemingford Grey and then it's a short hop across the meadow to Houghton Mill.

Returning, I'd use the Thicket Path to St Ives then the Busway track back to Cambridge. The flooding has subsided so it's open.

PT

Re: Cambridge to Houghton Mill

Coton, not Cotton. Autocorrect.