Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

One of my lockdown projects, not particularly well finished is to try and collect routes I/friends/organised rides have for gravel in Wales:

Full routes:https://ridewithgps.com/collections/9974?privacy_code=eQpms3UIXNUyoCnR

Overnighters: https://ridewithgps.com/collections/9976?privacy_code=N6g1Z54QDzlaLwPw

Workout on a 'sections' map so people can link bits up themselves too. The others need a lot of work too.

Have them in RWGPS collections because it's the best thing I could figure out to combine multiple routes from different people into a single map. Definitely opportunity for a better way of doing it.

@PhilDAS will be going early morning from Putney on Saturday, if interested.
Have been building a repertoire of interesting SW spots by just getting lost.

I'll take you up on that in the future if you go again. At the moment I've only got my road bike up and running but that's just laziness rather than not having the parts

just get an arkose ?

That would be the sensible thing to do

32c on my Exploro and basically fell in love with the fatter tyres

32mm is tiny! ;)

The pic above with the pylon is almost certainly through Esher Common

Yep. Thanks for the Giro routes link, some interesting stuff there

32c on my Exploro and basically fell in love with the fatter tyres

Shit roadies say

wow

#nogravel in this part of Kent either

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LFGSS #NoGravel Ride - 31st of August - Should we get a list going?

I like the direction this thread is headed

yes yes yes

u comin?

not untill you lot sort out your pandemic

https://www.strava.com/activities/3826972522 picked this route up from someone in the Routes thread, was a great first ride south. More tarmac than planned but still plenty of quiet roads and gravé.

Yes - lovely not gravel roads!

That route misses out some decent offroad sections on the way out TBH - almost all of Keston to Woldingham School can be done legally offroad on NCN21 etc.

Did we ever have this from Saracen?

Needs one of these:

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Sometimes in life, you just gotta nod your head to go faster

You also got this https://gravelmap.com/#7.39/51.657/-0.352

I thought as much en route down. I'll have to give it another go

Another fine example of total lack of gravel around here.

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oofff the lack of gravel is a real shame.

Similar disappointment here around Leipzig yesterday, should really visit the USA sometime soon to experience some of that real gravel.

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