BCQ ride 2 

Saturday 8th October 2022

BCQ Locations - 
196 Graffham Water
195 Hilton turf maze
191 Kings College Cambridge

As I was camping at St Neots I'd looked up what BCQ locations were in the surrounding areas.
There was one not far away at Graffham Water and another in Hilton. I did see one in Cambridge town centre I could add on if I felt ok on the new bike (I'm used to riding a recumbent so wasn't sure how my backside would be after the ride over the day before).

Another one of the campers does the challenge also so had planned a route to collect a few herself.
We decided to do the route I'd done and head into Cambridge also, my backside would just have to put up with it!!

We left the campsite up through the town centre towards Huntingdon before heading west towards our first location at Graffham Water and the first coffee.
Location found, Question answered, picture taken and back towards the A1 junction at Buckden, this time we decided to avoid the underpass (with trike stopping fences) and just rode across the roundabout.
If you are not a confident cyclist and don't want to cross a very busy road junction, the underpass is on the northbound side of the A1 carriageway.

Hilton turf maze

Back onto quieter lanes again we headed towards Hilton and eventually found the location after asking a friendly local where the maze was.

Onto the lanes again and heading for Cambridge. We have both done various audax rides in this area (Judith more so than me) so know the roads fairly well, this does give a false sense of security though and we had to turn round after missing a right turn as we were chatting as we went past.

On the outskirts of Cambridge we stopped for lunch at a garden centre that I'd passed many times in the truck but had never stopped at (lorry is too big!) The baked potato with seafood was amazing.

Following a cycle path route into Cambridge was brilliant until we got to the centre, perhaps heading in on a Saturday afternoon wasn't the greatest of ideas! I wasn't too bad being on a bike, but Judith was on a very low recumbent trike and probably found it harder to get through the people.

King College post box

We found the post-box for the BCQ answer and didn't hang about in the crowds. It was mental!

All we had to do now was head back to the campsite, which was an uneventful ride really.

Kilometres Cycled – 90.61
Checkpoints Visited – 3

Total KM Cycled – 152.15
Total Checkpoints Visited – 5