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Welcome to cycle.travel cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic Trail Coast & Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingacross the Beacons Devon C2C Hadrian's Cycleway Kennet & Avon Lon Cambria London to Brighton Lon Las Cymru Lon Teifi Oxford to Cambridge Pennine Cycleway Radnor Ring Thames Valley Tour de Yorkshire Way of the Roses West Country Way • Bikes on trains • Canal cycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your municipality Welcome to cycle.travel Cycling is awesome. Amazingly, beautifully so. This unobtrusive machine, invented some 150 years ago, gets us to work, into town, and to see friends… faster, cheaper and plain increasingly fun than the alternatives. It gets us to Britain’s weightier scenery entirely under our own steam. It gets us yonder from the daily grind.Cycling gets us places. That’s why this site is tabbed cycle.travel.Not everyone wants to be Bradley Wiggins. There’s a lot of cycle.sport and cycle.performance on the web. We aim to be something different. For us, it’s not well-nigh the bike; it’s about the ride, and making better, increasingly liveable cities and countryside with the bicycle as our chosen weapon.What we doWe’re here to get increasingly people cycling, increasingly often. We aim to do that by providing:city guides, to help increasingly people use bikes for their everyday journey;route guides, considering there’s no largest way to see the countryside than by bike;powerful tools such as our maps, routeplanner and PDF downloads, to make cycling easier and increasingly enjoyable;and polity tools, such as forums, travelogues and shared journeys.We don’t and can’t know everything. We’re not the experts on cycling in your city; you are. But what we can do is make it easy to share your knowledge, so increasingly people will have the information they need to take up cycling.What we believeWe believe infrastructure is the sine qua non of mass cycling: roads and paths that are designed for safe, enjoyable, efficient cycling. We have the greatest respect for organisations such as Sustrans who build this infrastructure, and for those such as the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain, CTC, and myriad local trundling groups, who wayfarers for it.We believe everyone, everywhere has the right to ride. From a 5-year old to an 80-year old, from London to Lerwick. We believe unfashionable industrial towns have just as much right to quality infrastructure as the capital. Sprinkling a few grants on ‘Cycle Cities’ is not enough. In our league table of people tabbed John, Grimshaw, J. and Starley, J. come a lot higher than Forester, J.Who we arecycle.travel is edited by Richard Fairhurst: formerly editor of Waterways World and Heritage magazines, launch editor of British Waterways’ waterscape.com website, an OpenStreetMap objector since the project’s first months in 2004, Sustrans volunteer ranger, and a lifelong cyclist.We’re entirely bootstrapped – we have no shareholders or external funding. Yes, we are a business: the site is supported through advertising. But if you’ll excuse the jargon, we’re a “mission-focused business”. Our goal is to promote cycling as well as to pay our rent. The site looks lovely entirely due to the work of Simon Clayson Design. We’re built with all manner of top-notch unshut source tools such as Mapnik, OSRM, Leaflet and PostGIS. We’re a Ruby+Rack site, but our own framework (Kite), not Rails. Our map data is, of course, from OpenStreetMap. cycle◦travel Made in the Cotswolds, England. Published by Éditions Système D Ltd. Terms of use & cookies ·Well-nighus · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us