Cycling in Lincolnshire offers a wide variety of riding terrains. Lincolnshire is on the east coast of Britain sandwiched between Norfolk in the south and Yorkshire in the North. It has over 50 miles of coastline, the Lincolnshire Wolds are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the Fens in the South. It is probably the Fens that people associate with Lincolnshire giving it an unfair reputation of being flat.
The term Wolds, high forest or open high land, might be misplaced in Lincolnshire as the highest place is only 168m high at Normanby le Wold and most of the land given over to agriculture. It is hilly but they are smaller and not as long making an ideal place to begin hill climbing. On either side of the Wolds the land is flatter although there is the Lincoln Edge to zip up and down to provide a bit of a challenge. Lincolnshire is the second largest county in England after Yorkshire and everything is more miniature compared to its more hilly neighbours and it is this that makes Lincolnshire such a great place to cycle.
There are over 5,500 miles of roads to explore, many being very quiet with low volume of traffic on them. Running through Lincolnshire there are three Sustran National Cycling Routes, Route 1 runs the entire length of the county from Norfolk up to the Humber Bridge. Routes 64 and 647 start in Lincoln and follow the same path until the they split with one going south and the other continuing west. Some of these routes provide traffic free cycling which is ideal for families.