Rideout Routes in Dorset, pick your favourtie and we will get one arrnaged?

I have a route for the first weekend in May, I will post it soon when I have time to sit down and write it out....

J2UK if we can't hook up before this, I can email you a detailed route so you can check run it and offer any suggestions if you think they would help..

It will start just off Cadnam Roundabout and stop at the Worlds End pub, Almer on the A31 (DT11 9EW) and should keep us occupied for a few hours...

Watch this space..

Ok so here is a route (subject to change)

Start point.

Small lay-by on B3079, Roger Penny Way, just off Cadnam roundabout on offside. (1st exit if coming from Dorset, 3rd from Hampshire).

B3079 to B3078 (left hand fork towards Godshill) NB. cattle grids and wild horses and ponies in road.

Godshill into Fordingbridge to Cranborne

(over bridge, road turns sharp left, follow right fork into Shaftesbury Street and follow through Sandleheath and all the way to the T junction at the end of Steel Lane and turn right onto Browns Lane. Follow road to village of Cranborne back onto the B3078 in the direction of Knowlton.

Cranborne to Sixpenny Handley

On Cranborne Road (B307 take 2nd right onto Parsonage Lane (B3081) and follow to T junction and turn right. Follow road to left and into a long straight* to roundabout, straight across to Six Penny Handley. *beware of speed monitoring by Police on nearside side road, hidden by row of trees.

Six Penny Handley to Zig Zag Hill.

Follow road through SPH, approximately 3km after leaving village, beware of harsh right hand bend and road surface.

Road takes you into Wiltshire boarder, then back into Dorset -

Road leads to Zig Zag hill, tight right hand bend with poor road surface and beware of vehicles cutting corners and on your side of road. Follow B3081 to T junction, turn right follow to end of road, turn left on A30 and then first exit on roundabout, A350.

Shaftesbury to Worlds End PH.

Follow A350 to Spetisbury turn right on B3075 heading for A31. At the A31 turn right and follow road for approximately 2km with Worlds End public house on nearside.

This could be used as half a route but is sufficient for a good ride. A31 can be used to hot foot it back to Hampshire if required after a bite to eat and a cold drink.

Thoughts?

(not sure how to do the fancy maps)

Originally Posted by fraser01

Ok so here is a route (subject to change)

Start point.

Small lay-by on B3079, Roger Penny Way, just off Cadnam roundabout on offside. (1st exit if coming from Dorset, 3rd from Hampshire).

B3079 to B3078 (left hand fork towards Godshill) NB. cattle grids and wild horses and ponies in road.

Godshill into Fordingbridge to Cranborne

(over bridge, road turns sharp left, follow right fork into Shaftesbury Street and follow through Sandleheath and all the way to the T junction at the end of Steel Lane and turn right onto Browns Lane. Follow road to village of Cranborne back onto the B3078 in the direction of Knowlton.

Cranborne to Sixpenny Handley

On Cranborne Road (B307 take 2nd right onto Parsonage Lane (B3081) and follow to T junction and turn right. Follow road to left and into a long straight* to roundabout, straight across to Six Penny Handley. *beware of speed monitoring by Police on nearside side road, hidden by row of trees.

Six Penny Handley to Zig Zag Hill.

Follow road through SPH, approximately 3km after leaving village, beware of harsh right hand bend and road surface.

Road takes you into Wiltshire boarder, then back into Dorset -

Road leads to Zig Zag hill, tight right hand bend with poor road surface and beware of vehicles cutting corners and on your side of road. Follow B3081 to T junction, turn right follow to end of road, turn left on A30 and then first exit on roundabout, A350.

Shaftesbury to Worlds End PH.

Follow A350 to Spetisbury turn right on B3075 heading for A31. At the A31 turn right and follow road for approximately 2km with Worlds End public house on nearside.

This could be used as half a route but is sufficient for a good ride. A31 can be used to hot foot it back to Hampshire if required after a bite to eat and a cold drink.

Thoughts?

(not sure how to do the fancy maps)

go to www.maps.google.com the choose your starting poing right click and say navigate from here, then next bit right click navigate to here and it will do the route for you if it goes off the route and takes a slight alternative to the place you chose click on the purple line and drag it to the road you want

hopefully your be able to do it

[Mej]

Originally Posted by fraser01

Ok so here is a route (subject to change)

Start point.

Small lay-by on B3079, Roger Penny Way, just off Cadnam roundabout on offside. (1st exit if coming from Dorset, 3rd from Hampshire).

B3079 to B3078 (left hand fork towards Godshill) NB. cattle grids and wild horses and ponies in road.

Godshill into Fordingbridge to Cranborne

(over bridge, road turns sharp left, follow right fork into Shaftesbury Street and follow through Sandleheath and all the way to the T junction at the end of Steel Lane and turn right onto Browns Lane. Follow road to village of Cranborne back onto the B3078 in the direction of Knowlton.

Cranborne to Sixpenny Handley

On Cranborne Road (B307 take 2nd right onto Parsonage Lane (B3081) and follow to T junction and turn right. Follow road to left and into a long straight* to roundabout, straight across to Six Penny Handley. *beware of speed monitoring by Police on nearside side road, hidden by row of trees.

Six Penny Handley to Zig Zag Hill.

Follow road through SPH, approximately 3km after leaving village, beware of harsh right hand bend and road surface.

Road takes you into Wiltshire boarder, then back into Dorset -

Road leads to Zig Zag hill, tight right hand bend with poor road surface and beware of vehicles cutting corners and on your side of road. Follow B3081 to T junction, turn right follow to end of road, turn left on A30 and then first exit on roundabout, A350.

Shaftesbury to Worlds End PH.

Follow A350 to Spetisbury turn right on B3075 heading for A31. At the A31 turn right and follow road for approximately 2km with Worlds End public house on nearside.

This could be used as half a route but is sufficient for a good ride. A31 can be used to hot foot it back to Hampshire if required after a bite to eat and a cold drink.

Thoughts?

(not sure how to do the fancy maps)

sorry aint been on here for a while, Looks good.

i will try and take a good look at it later then i will put up on google maps for ya!

I might have a variation towards the end of route, some smaller roads running parallel with the A350 on the eastern side... Need to check them out...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...79,0.2211&z=12

This is the variation in route, smaller and with less traffic. It is basically first exit on left after zigzag hill and at the end of the road turn left and follow all the way to the roundabout at the A350. Follow this road until you pass the roundabout with the A3082 (wimborne Road) and then take the first exit on the left and follow all the way to Spetisbury, cross the A350 and then head for the Worlds End Pub as before.

I have already been and checked out the route from after the A3082, its just the first part from Zigzag that needs a proofed.

The entire route is about 50 miles and will take about an 1hr 30.... is everyone happy with this distance and amount of time? (I am sure J2UK could add to it if people want more?)

The full route..
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...,0.884399&z=10

[fizzwheel]

Just watch it on the ZigZag if you've not ridden it before exercise some caution, the bends are alot sharper than they look on the map.

The surface on it was alot better last time I rode it and once you got up over the top the road had been completely re-surfaced and was a lot better.

[Mej]

Here are a few pics i took when i stopped on the road between cranbourne and sixpenny yesterday!

[Mej]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Just watch it on the ZigZag if you've not ridden it before exercise some caution, the bends are alot sharper than they look on the map.

The surface on it was alot better last time I rode it and once you got up over the top the road had been completely re-surfaced and was a lot better.

Yeah it is a bit loose, but the worst bit IMO is the bit frase mentioned,

Originally Posted by fraser01

Follow road through SPH, approximately 3km after leaving village, beware of harsh right hand bend and road surface.

slid the back end twice here

I checked out the alternative route from zigzag hill to Blandford Forum (A350) and its a cracking road so I think we will use that instead of simply using the A350.

Lets cross our fingers for good weather on that first weekend in May!