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Ah, it'll be fiiiiine..

My own rule = if 4+degrees C on the central London forecast then you will be fine outside London. If it is lower than that and it has rained in the last few days I wouldn't.

Most of the back roads in the Chilterns are narrow, some have tree cover (even when leafless) so this can mean the ground temp doesn't rise above 0, even if it is a dry day.

Looks like a lovely route, I've done some of it.

Totally committed to giving it my best shot. Come at me stupid hills.

Are you dead?

Haha, nah. We called it at 7am yesterday, didn't fancy our chances!

100 mile ride turned in to Regent's Park laps and Swains repeats..

We will do the ride asap though.

Roads were fine, dry everywhere. :)

This was in the Chilterns yesterday (2nd picture) https://www.instagram.com/m_xl/?hl=en

I didn't fancy taking my chances on steep descents on unknown roads.

I was out in the chilterns today (I live in Chesham) roads were mostly fine apart from a couple of frozen puddles, some epic pot holes appearing though.

I wouldn't want to be hitting all of those climbs one after the other!

To be fair that is a ford!

;)

I didn't construct that route, it's one my coach told me to do.. I think he's trying to kill me.

He is.

@mk1mark

I did the route @Cazakstan sent us both, pretty wet overall yesterday, some points covered with slush and some ice too here and there. One note, the road between Sewardstone and High Beach was closed, and the diversion was rather shite, see pic.

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/12671964

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Thanks, good to know!

I done half of it last week before my Garmin's battery died, nightmare.

if you are heading up that way again drop me a message and I'll follow along!

Starting a new job on Merton Rd in Wimbledon in a few weeks time, any suggestion of a good route from let say Loughborough Junction railway?

I go to Streatham quite a lot, so could cut onto the S Circular Rd at the end of Brixton Hill Rd, then turn onto Clapham South then all the way straight onto Merton High St etc. Or go via Stockwell onto Clapham etc...

Or any other suggestions? I don't mind a bit hill here and there, I just don't really like the crazy traffic around Clapham...

Cheers

Me personally I'd avoid the South Circular at that time of day going west. For some reason it's always rammed, and there's no cycling provision on lots of it. Maybe go to Brockwell park, then there's one of those backstreet cycle routes that takes you to Calpham Common (Route 5??). Then go thru or round Clapham Common, and down Nightingale Lane at Clapham South. Follow that down down to Plough Lane sort of area and then pop up through Earlsfield?

Does anybody have a gpx file of the 2016 or 2017 Paris Roubaix route?

If you have premium you can download this https://www.strava.com/activities/542456431/overview - bonus is that you could use the data as a training partner! This is the pro route though. If you're looking for the sportive route it might be a google search. Though I think @Ecobeard did the Paris-Roubaix sportive?

While I am here does anyone have a route in Kent, maybe starting from Layhams, that takes in the most amount of hills in the shortest distance? I saw this lovely thing @andyp put together but is there a way to make it shorter but keep the elevation? I think I need hills practice if I'm going to do the South Downs Way.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19019919

Super cool. Thank you very much. I'll probably do it in reverse, after Sunday April 9

Yeah

We do the VCR one that happens every two years

It's great and we have been lucky enough to 'win' a giant cobble for the past two additions, which can been seen and romanced over in the shop.

Route is here

This one is good if you smash it

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/12192258

Looses 10miles and 1000ft of climbing on your route though

Few reps of chalkpit should help on it too to get the elevation up.

Also have you considered the south hills route
for fun urban times?

It's doable fixed/SS too.

happy to show you the route at some point matey

Awesome thank you @Ecobeard ! I think I'll definitely give that one a go. And when I FINALLY get my BC membership March 1 I'll just straight up join you for a south London hills run

I shall wait, glued to our British Cycling page, until the glorious day when your name pops up on the screen.

Ta