Surrey Hills is AOONB
Caught the train to Guildford today with my bike and then set out on a bike ride where I intended to cycle through Surrey Hills from Guildford to around the Kent border.
I had a good cycle over the hills and through forests, at one point I went down a very steep hill and went very fast down the hill, I was hoping to have slowed down by the time I reached the pathway at the bottom but I just flew over it and kept going over the bumpy ground and finally managed to slow down and gain control again a few metres away from a massive bushy area, which would have hurt if I crashed into it!
But I saw some beautiful scenery and cycled down some nice country lanes and over interesting fields.
By about 12:30pm I reached a small village called Gomshall which is a few miles away from Dorking, but alas, my bike got a flat tyre there and I had no tools to fix it. I tried to call home on my mobile but as I had no reception and had to walk around the village with my back tyre making a horrible noise, but I did put it through a lot of pain on the trip.
I managed to find a old red phone box, I reckon it must have been the only one in the village and called home to see if I could be picked up as the train station only had trains stop there about every two hours, it was a shock as I always catch trains from Guildford, Waterloo and Clapham Junction.
The station had no ticket machine, no drinks machine, a old gate that blew in the wind and I was the only person that stood on the platform for the hour that I waited there, you could even walk across the track between the two platforms. You could run between the platforms and make a cricket century there before a train passed through!
Anyway I failed to make the whole journey and next time I will have to take a pump with me, but I got some new inner tubes with gel inside that is meant to seal up holes in inner tubes, don't we live in a great technological age!
I had a good cycle over the hills and through forests, at one point I went down a very steep hill and went very fast down the hill, I was hoping to have slowed down by the time I reached the pathway at the bottom but I just flew over it and kept going over the bumpy ground and finally managed to slow down and gain control again a few metres away from a massive bushy area, which would have hurt if I crashed into it!
But I saw some beautiful scenery and cycled down some nice country lanes and over interesting fields.
By about 12:30pm I reached a small village called Gomshall which is a few miles away from Dorking, but alas, my bike got a flat tyre there and I had no tools to fix it. I tried to call home on my mobile but as I had no reception and had to walk around the village with my back tyre making a horrible noise, but I did put it through a lot of pain on the trip.
I managed to find a old red phone box, I reckon it must have been the only one in the village and called home to see if I could be picked up as the train station only had trains stop there about every two hours, it was a shock as I always catch trains from Guildford, Waterloo and Clapham Junction.
The station had no ticket machine, no drinks machine, a old gate that blew in the wind and I was the only person that stood on the platform for the hour that I waited there, you could even walk across the track between the two platforms. You could run between the platforms and make a cricket century there before a train passed through!
Anyway I failed to make the whole journey and next time I will have to take a pump with me, but I got some new inner tubes with gel inside that is meant to seal up holes in inner tubes, don't we live in a great technological age!
posted by David at 8:44 pm
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