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Ok, this looks like the safest place for this:

I'm in my last week of a stint working down near Redhill and wondered if anyone had any suggestions for a nice/interesting route from here-ish up to LMNH, thinking 120km, give or take, then I'll get a train back, doesn't matter how convoluted it is - I don't mind riding up the A23 etc, just fancied making a proper ride out of it.

Oh, and I'm planning on doing it on Sunday Saturday - I'll head to Leith Hill on Sunday to watch the race.

Cheers

Cross over to bletchingly, some nice roads around there, loop around gatwick for some nice country roads. And then go up Warwick world road straight into coulsden through the park up top.
I then ride the A23 as it's the fastest simplest way in/out, but you could take a different route, up into palace and then through HH, Old kent road, tower bridge, old street.

Does anyone have any nice routes from York to Saltburn via Whitby and ideally not via too many hills?

Thanks Skinny, sounds like a combination of the rides i've been doing locally and the route up to the CP crits then.

It's frustrating not knowing what the roads inside the M25 are like for cycling, the first week I went to CP I took a ridiculous, convoluted, hilly route before realising the A23 isn't bad at all, even at rush hour.

Messing about with google maps, i've dragged out a route west - sort of Dorking, East Horsley, Woking, Windsor, Slough, and in from the west, any thoughts? Just wandering if i can make something a bit different from what i've been doing but will just stick with what I know, A23 etc if its going to be a shitty route.

Actually maybe East is better via the Gravesend ferry - I love getting little ferries with my bike, looks like they are allowed?
p.s. will be putting it on my garmin so route finding won't be an issue, other than when it throws a hissy fit...

That was pretty decent, one slightly less pleasant, narrow & busy climb out of Wrotham but it was followed by an awesome fast run practically all the way down to Gravesend.

I went Smallfield, Edenbridge, Shipbourne, Gravesend, ferry to Tilbury, Graysm Rainham Marshes, Dagenham, then CS3, Greenway followed by lots of wrong turns before pie and coffee at LMNH.

As expected, once across the Thames my average speed plummeted. Rainham Marshes was better than I anticipated but CS3 and the Greenway were a pain with all the barriers. I was amused by the roadworks sign that had been placed obstructing the full width of the Superhighway, wouldn't like to have met that at dusk!

great info

Anyone have any routes to avoid the A82 up Loch ness? Doing Lejog next year and I;ve heard its an awful bit of road.

Anyone have any good autumn/winter rides in Derbyshire with decent coffee stops along the way?

Has anyone ridden from London to Peterborough before? Looking for a reasonably direct (but also reasonably quiet) route, if such a thing exists?

^ Kind of, my parents live south of Peterborough and I've ridden to theirs before. I did the first half up the A1 (would not recommend) then on a road up the side of the A1... It was mainly crap until Baldock, when it got nice (Potton - Papworth onwards).

Actually I've done bits of the middle bit since and it's been much nicer, I'll try to put it all together in one route sometime this week if you like?

Up the A1?! Chapeau, you nutter!

Thanks for the offer, that's kind. I'll be following le Garmin, so will be plotting one route, so it would be greatly appreciated if you could just link the various bits you meniton/recommend above which should inform my routing. Alternatively I should be able to piece together town/village names so if you know this and don't have the route maps that that would also be great.

Here's a first stab, based on roads that look nice on Googlemaps, and with some influence from this: http://www.cyclelove.net/2012/11/why-i-cycled-a-hundred-miles-to-meet-my-first-customer/

I have never ridden that way out of London before, so comments would be appreciated as to whether the roads I have chosen are stupid or not. I plan to leave at silly o clock, so traffic shouldn't be too much of an issue in the smoke, but I have plotted the route backwards so as to make editing the London bit easier.

The proposed route:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3694772

Okay, this is my suggestion: http:// ridewithgps.com/ routes/3694634 (remove spaces when copy/pasting link).

The bit up to the M25 I can't vouch for, but I've ridden all the rest (excluding the last couple of miles) and it's fine. There's a tea shop just off mile 29 that's meant to be nice, then at mile 70 you go through St Ives which has at least one tea shop on the quayside and supermarkets etc too. I've never found anywhere satisfactory to eat between the two, unless you like being shouted at in motorway service stations.

Really handy, thanks Hats!

I am freelance so December/January is always dead work-wise, so looking for some interesting fast-ish 20/25 mile routes out of East London to do daily and make me feel like I am achieving something at least...

Norwich to London via Cambridge

I rode from Norwich to London on Monday on a one day ride (slowly in the rain into a gusting SW'er). 216km. Here are the GPX files (broken into 2 sections from Norwich to Cambridge and Cambridge to London). The Norwich to Cambridge section is a lovely ride on B roads and the Cambridge to London section is Greenbank's route through Duddenhoe End in reverse. May be of use to someone...
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3765471

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3765675

http://www.strava.com/activities/100518791

Try east of Bishop Stortford next time, and in via Epping.
That streach through Gt Dumow of Essex is wicked!

Try east of Bishop Stortford next time, and in via Epping.
That streach through Gt Dumow of Essex is wicked!

Great suggestion. That stretch of the A10 is soulless. Haven't done much riding in Essex at all. Any other good routes out there?

Erm any really, it's all lovely.

I've got a few recently on my RWGPS.
http://ridewithgps.com/users/113414/routes

Any good london to brighton recco's? Looking to do the Ditchling Devil version on NYD..

anyone have any routes out to buckinghamshire, want to ride out and see some friends in prestwood, and haven't had any success finding ones posted online...

Id recommend taking the train from Marylebone or the tube from bakers st to Amersham and then just enjoy cycling around the chilterns.

But if I were determined to ride it, I'd probably head out via Windsor and work myway up.

Clapham Chasers have a good regular route for the first part

http://connect.garmin.com/course/2866629

This was nice. On the return route go east or Ardingley resevoir, west of weir wood though and avoid crawley.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2128578

Nice one Skinny.

Over the Ditchling twice - aargh!

Did you plug this into a garmin? I can never figure out the best way of getting RWGPS files into my edge 810. Always cocks up half way through a route.

This was nice. On the return route go east or Ardingley resevoir, west of weir wood though and avoid crawley.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2128578

I'd suggest you redraw the route in Garmin Connect; thats the only way I've got them working the way I wanted. No third party route software works as good.

That's what I've found and have often had to do. Just wondered if there was a better way.

Who knows, the Strava Glass & Google Glass when it launches may finally change all this...

I'd suggest you redraw the route in Garmin Connect; thats the only way I've got them working the way I wanted. No third party route software works as good.