Welcome to Bike Routes of Brum! A channel dedicated to showing safe cycle routes around Birmingham and the West Midlands – inspired by @Londoncycleroutes
In this video we will be cycling from the centre of Bromsgrove to Longbridge, following the National Cycle Network Route 5. It should take about 50 minutes to cycle – although I would warn you that this is not an easy ride – containing a huge hill in the middle of it!
The route that I’ve followed can be found here:
https://www.komoot.com/tour/1941832811
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I cycled the new Longbridge section yesterday, then along the Rae valley route into Brum centre, out on the A38 cycle route to Selly Oak and along bourne brook through woodgate valley, then home on the roads. The Bromsgrove to Longbridge section in this video is not really a cycle route, it's just roads. It's so frustrating, i think I'm just gonna move to the Netherlands.
Gotta love Redhill lane hill! There's a pleasant cafe (lizzie's farm) off Malthouse Lane, just before it kicks up.
Great to see you posting again.
I did this route a few years ago as part of a circuit using the 55 route from Selly Oak via Redditch. The 5 does seem to go round the houses literally around Bromsgrove and Catshill. I learned the hardway up Redhill Lane too!
I would and have gone straight on at the Redhill lane junction and along the pavement to Rednal and down through Rednal high street and pick up the new bit of the cycle path at Baalams Wood. Cuts a big corner off and cuts out the big hill.
Did you know that part of the route is the track bed of the Halesowen railway and you passed the site of Rubery Station at Arden Walk? The new cycleway is also the old track bed to Longbridge too.
Anyway thanks for showing us.
My family are from Birmingham. They were tricked as young men to "do their duty and go shore up the colonies" with subsidised travel after the war when the government claimed they "had too many workers". At the same time they were telling Freddy Foreigner, "Come save Britain, here's subsidised travel and free citizenship!" Those indigenous English tricked to go abroad married English native daughters of English settlers and had English sons and daughters. In time, the right of return line was broken, and poof you now have 2/3rds of your ethnic population trapped as diaspora to this day. So when your government lie and say you NEED migrants, remember, 2/3rds of your population are trapped abroad, if you NEEDED migrants you'd just let your native people return. So it's not about NEEDING migrants, it's about WANTING genocidal displacement migration.
great to see this! lovely long route
When you get to Redhill Lane instead of following the road go straight on and there is a path to take you through to the A38 and you can ride (against the traffic) on a pavement to take you under School Lane bridge over the A38. You can then re-join the road to go over the bridge and then pick up school lane. A lot easier than Redhill climb.