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Ah yeah sorry! There is a short section that follows the river but I remember the path being quite good, even in the wet. I was on 23c tyres and managed fine.
You can avoid it though by staying on the road, but you have to take a sharp right at the bottom of a long descent, staying on the A3055 instead of carrying straight on towards Freshwater. You can see the sign for the anti-clockwise route on the left of this street view , but there is no corresponding sign for the clockwise direction. Probably because they don't want a load of cyclists emergency braking at the bottom of a long hill!
oh right, its just cos it says this on the site.