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Q10/1 Hamstreet.
just been and driven it.
Assuming they push you off at the Junction. Head towards Ashford.
Just under 4 miles to second roundabout. No hard shoulder as such but about 0.75m from white line to actual road edge, this of course is not where you want to be as covered in gravel and bit's of car, 1x dead badger and 1xhouse brick.
Round the roundabout and back to start point, only 1x dead badger no house bricks.
This is regarded as one of the best roads in the area, maybe the county the A2070. Good smooth tarmac.
So just under 8 miles and passing start point.
Road now undulates, maybe over 1/2 mile then levels and drops again with another rise/climb out roughly equal to the drop in.
Cross over the Royal Millitary canal, maybe 1/2 mile and turn off at Johnsons corner (left) towards Hamstreet.
Road surface from this junction is much rougher.
Used the car odometer, and was looking for road markings around 9.8 miles, second layby pretty much bang on 10 miles is a white line across carriage way.
Might have a go early on a Sunday morning.
Fixed is out of the question for me, around 8.3 miles the road drops, could coast faster than i can spin here and have a little rest so SS wins :) and the same again about 3/4 mile further on, road dips down, so tuck in and coast until bike slows down enough for me to try and spin up and get my 2 pawl freewheel to pick up with out pitching myself over the bars :) (Halo clickster in near future methinks)
Can do a baseline run with no aero thinking towards Biek setup. will remove Krypto D-lock though.
Shoulda kept the Dolan carbon roadfork...... :)