{"id":242,"date":"2010-09-06T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T04:34:22","slug":"surviving-richmond-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/surviving-richmond-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Cycling – How to Cycle around Richmond – and Survive …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Richmond has a Trails Brochure<\/a> which includes information on Richmond cycling. It encourages people to explore Richmond\u2019s unique island ecology and natural environment by cycling around the Island of Richmond. One of their suggestions is to do a 47.5 km circumnavigation of the island. Ever trusting, Maggie and I followed this suggestion. Based on this experience, I have some advice for you: DON\u2019T!<\/strong> Whatever you do, do NOT follow the City of Richmond\u2019s advice and try to circumnavigate the Richmond Island on a bike. There are SOME BITS of this route that are well worth doing, as I will discuss \u2013 but the total circumnavigation is RIGHT OUT. Let me tell you about the nightmare<\/strong> we experienced when we wasted a lovely fall day trying to do this.<\/p>\n

We set out with the Trails Brochure map and plenty of water, expecting a pleasant ride, much like our bike ride on the West Dyke Trail<\/a>. We could not have been more wrong.<\/p>\n

We parked on River Road, and set off eastwards on the Middle Arm Trail. (For advice on finding the Dyke Trails, see my post on the West Dyke Trail<\/a>.) According to the map kindly provided by the City of Richmond, we expected to stay happily off road <\/strong>most of the way. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

Lost in a car park … with no signage anywhere to be seen …<\/h3>\n
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