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I’m actually going to riding from Guildford to Winchester at the weekend before attempting the SDW, you have a nice route for that stretch?
Qebrus-
This is the route I took a few weeks back. The bit from Guildford to Petersfield takes you onto the SDW and it was a cracking route.
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/234383
Alex_B
Well, it was the mud that really killed it for me, but I have to say that if I wanted a long epic ride, I'd do the Guildford > SDW > Guildford ride that I did a couple of weeks back. That ride was much more scenic and more interesting riding, covering almost all the same variety of terrain.
On this one there were too many gates, too many unclear paths that might or might not have been bridlepaths, too many routes through fields that turned out not to have an exit etc... it was also incredibly overgrown in places, so I was properly fighting off brambles and nettles in places.
This is my current favourite: https://cycle.travel/map/journey/210889 although I still need to find a better way around Crawley.