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Tue Jul 18th 2023
| Off Road Tuesday Evening Ride | 2* |
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Leader:Robin Tucker |
Start Time:6:30 pm |
Start Location:Wantage Market Place |
Description:Please pre-book for this ride by contacting the ride leader. Off-road ride around local tracks, usually about 15 miles. Knobbly tyres required and good lights when it gets dark (‘get you home’ lights in Spring/Autumn). We are keen to welcome new riders and can make recommendations or have spare lights to borrow if you let us know. Dark, cold and wet - we’ll ride in any two. But please let us know if you are coming so we can tell you if we decide to cancel due to bad weather or other reasons. |
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Report:A while since one of these rides due to various holidays, weather, etc. so it was good to get back on the Ridgeway and make sure it was still there.And a really nice evening to do it on, great temperature about 20C, and not too windy. The main threat was nettles and for the first 3/4 of the ride I managed to navigate around them quite well! We went up Lark Hill and Bitham Woods (which does need a bit of secateur work) then over the back down Ice Valley and up the other side to Bluebell Woods. A bit further south, turnd left down a great track that I don't think we have a name for, but from the OS Map starts in a wood called 'High Robins' which sounds good to me. It's actually more likely the start of Woolver's Road. Then leading on to 'Twisty Knarly' well known by all on two knobbly tyres. We climbed back to the Ridgeway, and headed back west, deciding as a group to go down at Ginge. This was where democracy let us down (although I'd have gone the same way) - the side routes led into brambles, and the main trail led into a lot of cow parsley which required a careful balance of speed to get through without stalling or having handlebars grabbed. Still, we made it, and then foolishly suffered a side order of prickles on the way to the Ginge bridge before picking up the Icknield Greenway back to Wantage. Don't get the wrong impression - this was excellent fun! | ||
Distance:30.58 km (19.00 mi) | ||
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