Laning Newbury Area

[yaki]

Not sure if this should be under the Green Laning section or here, feel free to move if appropriate.

Am in Maidenhead for a few days on a course with work and fancied a bit of laning one evening.

As have not been out in this area before was wondering if anyone fancied afew hours laning round Newbury area on Tuesday 5th or Wednesday 6th around 5pm ish.

Have the TOR Ridgeway route with me and was thinking of maybe spending a few hours doing part of that

Plus it will give me chance to try out the new mods, have about 800 road miles on it but not been laning since the changes

[yaki]

Did about half of the TOR Ridgeway route this evening. It was only me, despite posting an invite on 3 different forums (ok it was short notice) there were no takers.

It was the first laning trip in the Fronty since finishing all the various mods so was a little nervous especially as I had no one with me cos you never know

Arrived in Chiltern just after 6pm, not may photos of the run as I wanted to get as many lanes in as possible before dark.

Overall it was quite an easy route, nothing that stretched the Fronty anyway

Some really pretty views, lots of quite flat fields, gentle hills and loads of wildlife, saw several foxes, loads of rabbits and hares and even what I think was a little deer

Most of the lanes were well signposted telling you their status so there was no ambiguity as to what the lane classification was

First few lanes were mostly gravel or chalk and had a firm surface with the odd muddy patch here and there but got more interesting as the route progressed









And then there was this one, yes there is a lane down there and in need of some serious pruning, quite slippy in places and very very tight, paintwork got well tickled



Then it got dark so no more piccies but did find this underpass on one of the lanes, with lights

[Sir-Doris]

Ooh... a tickly lane. Bet you werent laughing

[bobbinsjob]

nice one mate