Starting in Benson this Little Legs is one of the flattest in the book and ideal for kids, beginner cyclists or anyone just wanting a...

This more hilly Little Legs starts in Wallingford, and, unlike other Little Legs routes it doesn’t have a coffee shop en-route. The...

This is a beautiful ride dipping up onto the Downs and then along the undulating lanes of West Berkshire. Weaving through villages with...

This little legs route is a perfect starter route for families with children or any beginner on a bike. The roads are quiet, hills...

The Mega Caker is a glorious 232 mile circular ride, broken down into 6 Stages and designed to work as a little cycle holiday. It explores the leafy lanes of the Chiltern Hills, gravel tracks over the Berkshire Downs and quiet corners of the Cotswolds. Every last mile of the route has been meticulously planned, staying well away from main roads and stringing together instead villages (to stop and take pictures in), market towns (to stay in) and tucked away coffee and cake sto

As you will see in the book, the ride description does not give you detailed step by step directions (eg turn left at the church,...

Below you will find a few reference tables as follows: Rides at a glance A directory of all the cafes in the book A table of all OS Maps - just incase you are someone who loves a paper map (I do, I've got a large collection). So read, enjoy, and do let me know if you have any updates to give me! Rides at a glance Title Miles Road Track Start & End Point Nearest Train Station 1. Goring & Ipsden - 25.9 miles 25.9 98% 2% Goring High Street Goring & Streatley 1. Goring Little Leg

This is a bits & bobs page where I'm generally loading up anything bike-related that might be useful when you are doing the Cake Tour. It's a work in progress and more will be added as Cake Tourers contact me with recommendations. Please note - this is not just a generic list. Everything has been given by personal recommendation. So they should all be tried, tested and good. Buying a second hand bike Southern Cycles Run by Nick, Southern Cycles is the place to go locally (W

In the Spring of 2024 it was fair to say that the cow poo had somewhat hit the wind turbine in my neck of the woods. One of my closest...

Absolutely ravenous and not exactly smelling as fresh as a daisy I stared blankly at the food in the petrol station chiller cabinet in front of me. I was trying to pull off the air of a clean and polite trans-Korean cyclist in front of the freshly scrubbed till operator but I’m not sure he was buying it. In fact, as he kept darting in and out of the back room, I’m pretty sure he was either gasping for breath or checking his box of air freshener and calculating just how much h

Any tour operator worth his salt will tell a cyclist pedaling the 633km from Seoul to Busan to give Daegu an extremely wide berth....

In early March, after a long cold winter, a couple of friends and I were in dire need of some winter sun. And so we decided to go for a short but tropical cycling break. To Dartmoor.   And boy, what a break it was. It broke our legs, it broke our backs and pretty much broke our desire to ever climb 1,484 feet in the hammering rain ever again. But did it break us? Let's take a look through the square window (with windscreen wipers) shall we?    Dartmoor in March is a land for

So, this list is a little bit short at the moment as I've been a bit busy finishing the book. However, I've started it (just) and and the plan is to keep on going until we have lots more Loops across West Berks and Oxfordshire. As you'll see there are lots of loops starting and ending in trainlines (I've started locally but will be working my way further afield). And of course - EVERY ride - has plentiful coffee & cake. So consider this the tip of the iceberg and lets keep a

For those of you with beginner legs or children I've started a list of rides on the quietest tracks I know. Yes, the list is currently as short as those tiny feet on pedals but give me six months and with any luck I'll have LOTS more to add. If you have a loop, or a good track or bike path do please let me know and I'll add it to the list. And, as we all know, when cycling with little people food is generally a must (as well as strong coffee for the parents) - so keep those

As a general rule, it is better if pilots don’t get lost. For a start, it’s not that easy to pull over, crank down the window and ask for directions. Secondly, last time I looked there weren’t petrol pumps in the sky so extra miles isn’t always a good thing. And finally, its generally more relaxing for passengers to get where they wanted to go in the first place. If however, you find yourself in the situation that I was in, 5,000 feet up in the air in a tiny Cessna, 70 minute

If you look on Letting Agency websites targeting students there are often sections with tips on how to room share with strangers. Useful pointers like, ‘respect your housemates’, ‘agree on a bathroom timetable’ and ‘schedule time for yourself in shared space’ are carefully listed out. And very useful they are too (well, actually, I think they’re a) pretty obvious and b) pretty stupid). However, if you look up on Google, ‘how to room-share successfully with a frog’ it will com

It is a well-known fact that the Indian Ocean is home to some serious big hitters when it comes to tropical islands. The Maldives, Mauritius and Seychelles are as famous as they are beautiful, and let’s not forget about exotic old Zanzibar. However, if you asked me if I could chose any island to go to in the Indian Ocean (and yes, I’ve  stayed on all of the above) then I would chose the Mafia Islands. Every. Single. Time. Why? Well, for a start, have you heard of the Mafia Is

‘Yeah, I think we should split up’ This delightful curveball came hurtling in from left-field, or should I say left-tent from the man who at 29 years old, I thought I was going to spend a fairly large proportion of the rest of my life with. BAM. Bloody brilliant. Not. I was at the time, standing in a large tent at the foot of the Mahale Mountains. Precisely 5,363 miles from home and in the middle of a research trip for a new program which I’d stuck my neck on the line for. An