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@Alex_B
I really loved the route actually. It takes you towards Mitcham and then routes westward along the Wandle trail, past little gardens on the edge of the river. It's really stunning in places. Then you end up on those weird fields at the edge of the downs with all the black-painted clapperboard houses.
It's by far the best route into the Surrey Hills that I've found so far.
All of the trails are hard packed gravel/sand or very easy draining dirt. As I got onto the downs themselves there was a lot more clinker/flint/gravel, but again not a problem. It was a bit "rooty" in places, but no worse than riding through a London park on the trails in Wimbledon Common for example.
I mean don't turn up on racing tyres with thin tread and sidewalls and you'll be fine.
I was riding a Michelin Dynamic on the front (it's their cheapest 700x28c tyre) and a Vittoria Randonneur at the rear (puncture guard and bit of tread), but again it's a £10 tyre!
I don't do fancy tyres.