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And the last stage had the series of detours off a straight, flat road to go down / up steep winding lanes to every fishing village.
I'd spotted this in advance and so I binned the official route in favour of climbing out of Seaton (penultimate control) and riding along the A3052 most of the way back.
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and miss BEER? Are you mad?
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Very wise. I think I had spotted the pattern after the first one and skipped some others.
I also missed out some of the climbing on the first day by doing a bit more main road. And I did the fast A road route into Seaton (the A35 descent is fun - busy A road, but fast downhill, but right turn to exit). But I got caught by the massive hill detour on the way into Truro...
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When I did the KSW main things I remember are that the road layout had been changed so my satnav couldn't find that church - I was driving around for ages looking for it.
Then I had planned to ride right through, but I got bad saddle sores and a storm came in, so I stopped at the sleep control.
The next day I got pissed off with the endless, slow, bumpy, winding, shitty lanes, so did a detour involving about 20 miles of the A303 - which was an experience. And the last stage had the series of detours off a straight, flat road to go down / up steep winding lanes to every fishing village.