Yesterday I....

Since we're not supposed to have general chit-chat in the routes thread (and quite right too), thought I'd start a thread to comment on the routes.

So for starters, yesterday I covered Pigbunks route:

Originally Posted by Pigbunk

My favourite ride out is from box hill, take the A25 west towards Guildford, turn left onto the b2126, right on the b2127, then follow it onto the b2128. All three of these are lovely little twisties that take you through some great countryside.

That takes you up to godalming, then take the a3100 south to Milford, then take either the a286 or 283 south towards Chichester: Doesn't matter which, they're both lovely fast sweepers and whichever you take south, you take the other one on the return journey anyway.

I sometimes take a slight detour at the A272 to go see me muvva in Bishops Waltham, if not I just head towards chichester, then turn around and take whichever of the 283 or 286 i didn't take coming down. great for a sunday thrash! Good pubs for food on the way too, and if you wanna take a detour to Brighton, it's only a couple of miles. I'm getting the hunger now....

I left at 8:30 in the morning to dodge the traffic, progress was patchy at first, the roads are quite variable with a lot of junctions to deal with, but there are some great sections in between especially once I started bending the speed-limits a bit.
However once I was out of f***ing Surrey and into Sussex the ride was excellent, barely any traffic to negotiate and some blinding open-sighted twisties and flat out straights. A few scary downhill bends as well (hate those)!

The a283/285 and a286 are great roads, It was tempting on my way back up the 285 to keep doubling back to re-ride one five mile section - shame it's so far from home.

I extended the trip slightly and went to Wittering for walk on the sand and a (rather pricey) greasy spoon. It didn't really add anything to the riding, but at least it gave me a proper destination.

The only real downer on the morning was that I still had chicken strips when I got home.

Anyway, a from me.

Yer the A286 and A283 have some great sections and could probably imagine the section you are on about. The seaside run last year was similiar in a way taking a trip down to wittering.

Good idea to review the routes though Mark, hell i'd love to know all the best roads around and routes, I could then stick it into an interactive map and post it up in the routes section.

Nice one marc - not been anywhere down that way.

If its any conciliation I could never get rid of the strips on my SV either. Profiles are different to the big bike fatter rears.

Oh and can you make the rideout on the 15th Marc?

What are these chicken strips you talk of?

Still got them on the Zed, it will take me a while to lean it right over. Still getting used to the handling, turns in so quick!

Sounds like a wicked route matey.

Originally Posted by falc

Good idea to review the routes though Mark, hell i'd love to know all the best roads around and routes, I could then stick it into an interactive map and post it up in the routes section.

Thanks for the review Mark!

It's got me thinking - dunno how easy it would be to do this, but it would be great to have a map of Surrey/Sussex with roads marked as to whether they're good or not - perhaps 'good but bumpy', 'good and smooooooth' and 'don't bother' or something like that.

Then it would be easy to put a long/short route together from any start point, taking in some real gems that others know about but you might otherwise miss (e.g. Pirbright twisties), and avoiding wasting time with duff roads

Originally Posted by Fizzy Fish

Thanks for the review Mark!

It's got me thinking - dunno how easy it would be to do this, but it would be great to have a map of Surrey/Sussex with roads marked as to whether they're good or not - perhaps 'good but bumpy', 'good and smooooooth' and 'don't bother' or something like that.

Then it would be easy to put a long/short route together from any start point, taking in some real gems that others know about but you might otherwise miss (e.g. Pirbright twisties), and avoiding wasting time with duff roads

that's a great idea!

Was looking into a similiar thing a while back using google maps. I'll have a look into it again when I have some time. Be yer would be useful

Originally Posted by falc

Oh and can you make the rideout on the 15th Marc?

Yeah, somewhere in the massive thread about it is me saying "If the weathers half-decent count me in."


This interactive map idea is rather good. Closest thing I can find to fit the bill is quikmaps.com, but it's very clunky.

Originally Posted by marcdbl

Yeah, somewhere in the massive thread about it is me saying "If the weathers half-decent count me in."

I dunno, these fair weather riders! That said my Zed will not see any rain if I can help it. My poor Hornet looks rather tired these days