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Cycle Routes Mountain Biking Surrey

Brookwood Ride A Muddy Day Out Cycling

Although I was looking forward to today’s Brookwood ride, I wasn’t exactly over the moon about the weather report. Storm Alex had brought downpours all of yesterday. Today I woke up to more of the same. I’ll confess that I am absolutely a fair weather rider. Even in normal life I don’t do rain. Or […]

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Cycle Routes Hampshire Mountain Biking

Velmead Common The Cycling Guide

Velmead Common lies to the east of Fleet, between the A323 and Aldershot Road towards Farnborough Airport. It is often the place I ride through to get to Caesar’s Camp and Tweseldown. I pass through it so much that I forget that it offers really good riding itself. During lockdown it was our favourite place […]

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Cycle Routes Hampshire Mountain Biking

Watercress Way

Mountain Biking around Alresford Disclaimer: This isn’t the official Watercress Way full route, but it does overlap sections of it. When I designed this route on Kamoot, I just picked trails that I thought looked fun. It was only when we were riding it and I spotted the Watercress Way route signs that I even […]

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Cycle Routes Mountain Biking Surrey

Hawley Lake A Cycling and Mountain Biking Guide

Hawley Lake wasn’t one of J’s regular mountain bike routes. In fact, the only reason we tried it out was because I kept seeing pretty pictures shared to one of the local Facebook groups. I thought that it seemed like a nice place to check out. Fleet to Hawley Lake The route to Hawley Lake […]

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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 […]

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Cycle Routes Hampshire Mountain Biking Surrey

Caesar’s Camp First Ride Feelings

During lockdown one of the daily occurrences was a local resident sharing a beautiful photo taken at the top of Caesar’s Camp. After a few weeks of this I felt like I was definitely missing out. So I persuaded J to risk taking me back out on the bike again to show me the sights. […]