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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

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Oliver Schick in reply to @

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.

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in reply to @Oliver Schick

Thanks for the tips everyone. And especially Oliver for this:

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.

Exactly what I didn't want.

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