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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I had high hopes for the Blackwater Valley Cycle Route. Everything about it sounds like it might be a nice, gentle, pretty route through picturesque scenery. The sort of thing that the Famous Five might have done on their day off, cycling along with a picnic accompanied by lashings of ginger beer. Breakfast of Champions […]
Ewshot to Bramshill Test Loop I was excited when I heard that Cycling UK had launched the King Alfred’s Way cycling route. This was for several reasons: – I’m really getting into bike touring because you discover so many new places. – It passes through Winchester which is one of my favourite places. – I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]