• It used to be worse than it is now, before winter they laid down a layer of gravel as if they were going to resurface it but just didn't. I try and avoid it now, go out via Daws Hill/Mott street and back through Woodford. Can share example routes if anyone wants.

  • Yes please. I discovered this absolute shower of a road surface before the winter and have avoided it ever since. When I come down this way I am riding in from near Cambridge and it's proven hard to find decent alternatives without adding significant mileage.

  • I used it 5-6 days a week as part of my training route, I tend to totally miss out the first section from the Shell Garage to the Robin Hood pub now by going via the High beech tea hut route and cutting down to the Robin Hood roundabout. Sadly I have little option but to dive head first down the second section where my soul is rattled out of my ears.

    I wonder if the Dunwich Dynamo will use it this year?. I can only imagine how soul destroying going the other way must be?. ;-)

  • Here's an example. Going out take the left by Bancroft School, then down Daws Hill, take a right, and go up Mott Street. This route comes back through Chigwell/Woodford, there's quite a few different routes you can take through that bit but as a rule you want to be on the East side of the M11 then head for Chigwell.
    https://ridewithgps.com/trips/31976312

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