There are some excellent routes out that way - I was there last week and returned via Christmas common, ibstone and skirmett, over hambledon lock and home via velolife, a rather pleasant route, espcially the bit around fingest, a lovely section of road
And now with knobbly tyres l can retrace all the tracks that cross-cross there I used to mtb 20 years ago.
Strong climbing game with you being fixed, I couldn’t do that without allthegears
The very one.