Tour of the Ancients- saturday 7th Oct
 

Here's a suggestion for a ride, I've tried to give it a theme and called it "Tour of the Ancients"

The route starts and ends at the Castle Court Sainsbury's in Brislington, Bristol
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shopping...ore.htm?id=795
There's food, fuel, loos and cashpoints etc, and strangely there's a mock castle in the car park which sets the scene for later on...

First point of interest is a white chalk horse site at Cherwell, followed by the stone circle at Avebury, then on to Bratton for another white horse site (biggest and oldest I think). Next up is Glastonbury Tor then heading back to Bristol via Cheddar Gorge.

125 miles total

Here's a pdf map of the route
http://www.box.net/public/a6rjio4mek

Half of these places I've never seen myself so I fancy doing it, any one else up for it? If there's enough interest we can look to set a date.

Hi Xan173.
Sounds like a blast. I have my test on the 3rd of Oct so if was to be after that then count me in. (provided I pass).

I'll come along, as long as my bike does not explode by then! :lol:

Absolute earliest for us would be the weekend of the 30th Sept, we're doing bikesafe tomorrow, and next weekend we're at the Afan bikefest (mountain biking).

So, weather permitting, shall we say the weekend of the 7th October? Either Saturday or Sunday.

Morning,
The sunday would work for me.

Good idea, good theme for a ride. Ill come date and weather pending. Sats always better than suns at the mo for me :wink:

Sounds good route, will have to confirm nearer the time.

yes
 

count me in....but i work every sunday :( so saturday would be good :lol:

Sounds good, but isn't Cherwell in Oxfordshire?

Saturday is best for me, I'm usually pretty wasted on Sundays.

It's a fair cop guv, you got me. My mistake, I meant Cherhill.
http://wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk/cherhill.html