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Thanks Ben. That's useful. The plan is to head anticlockwise from Reading where my brother lives. So we'd hit the drivetrain wrecking zone late in the ride. I've ridden the area you're talking about and it's very sandy.
There's talk of cancelling the trip due to all the rain recently, but you'd have had similar last weekend and clearly survived so maybe we just need to grow a pair and get on with it.
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I rode it Friday/Saturday/Sunday and there only occasional patches that were very wet. The ridgeway was actually dry.
The sand in the easterly half of the route was a drive train killer though. I started from Goring and to beg to use a saw mill's hose to clean the chain and mech after about 4 hours of riding .
General route is great. When I do it again, I will just go straight through the centre of Reading, rather than following the route proper.