-
The route from last year's LondonBrighton ride went through like this:
Mitcham - Carshalton - Just East of Oaks Park
Chipstead - Gatton - Albury Manor
Nutfield - Burstow - Turners Hill
Chiddinglye Wood - Ardingly - Lindfield
Haywards Heath - Following Ditchling Rd to Ditchling Common -
Did this a few times, very friendly
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/29908292
-
This is the route I always did for London-Brighton overnighters:
https://www.bikemap.net/en/r/966957/#8.29/51.162/-0.135
I've done it in the daytime a couple of times and found it good.
Note that this goes through Gatwick Airport. If you don't know how to get through there, you should cross the railway line at Horley instead.
There are some bits on busy-ish roads, e.g. Reigate Hill, but most of it (well, outside London) is fairly quiet.
The 'route' you've linked to just goes down the A23. Fine if you want to do a spot of time-trialling, but not what I'd choose for a leisurely ride.
-
I'd imagine that's massively skewed towards the "official" route, not that I know if that's any good or not...
I use this one when I'm doing that ride, it's nice - there's one medium size road just before ditching which I've not found a way of avoiding but you may be able / willing to!
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/15663105
Edit: think I was on an older iteration of this screen by mistake as didn't see you'd already received a shedload of replies!
Ah well, all the options...
You are reading a single comment by @ and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
disq
giofox
Oliver Schick
andyfallsoff
@ 
Thoughts on a "friendly" London > Brighton (well, Ditchling in this case) route? I'm trying to put something together that my partner, who has not done a tonne of miles this year, won't be discourage by. But I also don't want to be on busy roads all day.
This uses Garmin's popular routes thing (with a bit of finessing to avoid some meters), but I'm not really sure what that really means when talking about London to Brighton. Could just be weekend warriors smashing out their rides as quickly as possible.
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/35879564