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Cycle Routes Hampshire New Forest

Milford on Sea New Forest Cycle Route

The ride from Milford on Sea was the third consecutive adventure around the New Forest. This week’s coastal route felt like a nice contrast to the previous two from Sandy Balls and Brockenhurst. Milford on Sea was somewhere I was aware of because of a trip a few years ago when I had taken the […]

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Cycle Routes Hampshire New Forest

Brockenhurst New Forest Cycle Route

After last week’s Sandy Balls loop, I was really excited to do another New Forest ride. I found another ride on Kamoot that looked promising. This time it was a 23 mile loop from the centre of Brockenhurst. We left early on Saturday, still amazed by how quiet the roads were because of lockdown. The […]

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Cycle Routes Hampshire New Forest

Sandy Balls New Forest Cycle Route

The Sandy Balls ride came about as a direct result of the Isle of Purbeck debacle. I decided that paper maps were not the way forward and it was time to embrace the 21st Century. This meant that I was navigator because quite frankly J is terrible with any sort of tech. I’d used the […]

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Cycle Routes Dorset Mountain Biking

Isle Of Purbeck Ride – How to Push Your Bike up Hills.

After a few more weeks and some introspection and apologising on my part, I persuaded J to take me back out on the bike. By now my ride ambitions were stretching beyond local laps of the nature reserve. Lockdown was starting to get to me and I was longing for some adventure. Restrictions had eased […]