With a course running out east from it's Reigate start, this is a treat of a ride, flowing from the North Downs out towards Kent Weald around Sevenoaks and Hever Castle.
It's a nicely paced and balanced route, which eases you into your day with it's early miles providing a perfect leg stretcher, before delivering you into a deceptively hilly mid section that set's the biggest of the day's challenges. From there, it's a long and fast run to the finish back through the heart of some truly stunning countryside.
I've always worked on the assumption that if the roadworks are set up in such a way that it's safe to ride through (e.g. lane coned off but no...
If memory serves, people thought this was ugly compared to the 5 arm that preceded it. Now this one's a bit of a looker by comparison.
When the various scandals were breaking, I kept expecting Blackburn to be involved as he always seems overly smarmy, but maybe he's actually an...
I snapped up a pair of 60/85 RSL last year, with DT-Swiss hubs. Straight and round out of the box, all taped tubeless ready. There's a weight...
And I have, i use a very low cadence and guess what that has done to my speed!
Edinburgh bus repeatedly rammed by motorist in bizarre video...
Could well be the same gammony-jeb-end that deliberately incredibly-close-passed me outside Reading Uni last week....
Wow. I'm still nursing along a Garmin 800, though I am thinking it's time for an update.
Good to hear, although it wasn't that long ago they charged a guy for swearing after he had sent them a video of an extremely close pass.
Fair enough - I don't have local knowledge. I'm just not seeing why e.g. a rising bollard (or just a gate that people could close at certain times...