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The Downs Link is a good route for a social ride. You can cover a lot of ground quickly, but it is kind of boring. What astonished me is that no cafes have sprung up to serve all those cyclists passing by.
If you take the equivalent kind of route in France, there's a cafe with toilets every mile or two.
Even the South Downs has cafes on the route.
Alex_B-
Yeah man it does go on, glad we ditched early.
We were actually flagged down in a lane shortly after we ditched the trail (I’ll have to check with who I was riding with) by a kinda frantic lady trying to tell us about a cafe (hers or someone she knows) that’s trying to cater for cyclists around there. Can’t remember the name. Probably around Henfield though I think
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What astonished me is that no cafes have sprung up to serve all those cyclists passing by.
There used to be an excellent one half way called Stans Bike Shack, but it closed due to rent cost or something which is a shame.
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The Downs Link is a good route for a social ride. You can cover a lot of ground quickly, but it is kind of boring. What astonished me is that no cafes have sprung up to serve all those cyclists passing by.
Late response, but there is the Milk Churn just off the Downs Link near Rudgwick that caters to cyclists and would recommend.
You can also jump off it at places like Cranleigh and there's shops and cafes right next to it.
ojwithbits
RonnieOatmilk
chris0
I did the Hot Chillee downs link one with a minor diversion around Henfield to go up Devil’s Dyke.
The downs link old railway path was super fun and fast, smoothish old tarmac to start but goes to crushed gravel and some mud in not too much time. We figured kinda last minute that it would be fun to end with a climb rather than continue the easy fast pace down to Shoreham and across the seafront. But some of the paths Komoot took us on to get us from Henfield to the Dyke were not exactly dreamy.
Before you reach the downs link it’s mostly just canal side riding but is pretty fun still. Not tarmac tow paths but worn in dirt and stone kinda thing. Definitely would recommend if you’re not looking to have a hard, testing ride, but for fun it’s great