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Where does everyone ride in Hampshire?
beninem 
| 25 Sep 16:56 |
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Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 23 Bike: My Profile | Hi, With some of the best countryside around & small towns along the way, Hampshire has alot to offer the local cyclist & this forum is designed to share our experiances & routes with people form our area. ride safe Ben |
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Provene
| 07 Jul 08:38 |
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Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 38 Bike: My Profile | I ride around the Winchester area. Kilmeston is a favourite, Winchester Hill is lovely (but the climb isn't!). We are so lucky round here, we also have the old Meon Valley railway which is a: flat(ish) and b: very useful to use as a 'motorway' to get to places without touching the main roads. I just like going out and exploring. |
| My Latest Route: Apr 2010 Waltham Chase to Kilmeston Loop | |
| badwolf01 | 09 Jul 11:00 |
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 Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Posts: 2 Bike: | Hello One of the best rides we have done as a family was at Langstone Harbour at Portsmouth. Mainly off road but not rough going. The views are great. Its about 15 miles in a loop with a ferry across the harbour mouth. At a nice steady place it should take about 2hours. As a treat theres a nice pub, but the for the best chips i've had try the shore chip shop. Enjoy!! |
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BusterG
| 20 Jul 07:24 |
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 Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 372 Bike: My Profile | For off and on road Hampshire must be one of the best. My on road is riding is limited to commuting but the 25 mile route Liss to Basingstoke is worth it. http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/Liss_to_Basingstoke-Cycle-Route-4383.html For off road the areas of Weavers down, Milland and Durford Wood are great. Buster. |
| My Latest Route: Oct 2013 Liss | |
| starbuck | 02 Aug 16:02 |
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Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 4 Bike: | Don't forget the isle of wight(I know not technically in hampshire but within easy reach). Got some of the most amazing rides(on and off road), the best scenery and some of the most challenging rides (they don't really seem to understand the concept of a flat road). I hate the hills but it's worth it for the views and the great runs downhill (try sunseaandcycling.com for more info). Just make sure you've got good brakes (at blackgang after the carpark(which is above blackgang itself), there is a 10 degree downhill, which is great fun and can test your nerves on the bends. |
| jezdx667 | 29 Jun 16:45 |
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Joined: 29 Jun 2012 Posts: 3 Bike: | I live around the andover, winchester, stockbridge area so generally ride around harewood forest area then just around local surrounding villages, living in the valley there are lots of ups and downs to keep you happy and lots of local relaxing village pubs for a quick refresher or if the weather takes a turn for the worst |
| Hayling Billy | 30 Jul 07:02 |
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Joined: 20 Jul 2012 Posts: 1 Bike: | Further to comments on Hampshire rides, we live on/in Hayling Island, a half mile from the Hayling Billy Trail. We often cycle up to the bridge to the mainland and then on to Chichester and along what is left of the canal or to the coasal path and back through Thorney Island and Emsworth. Yes I know the bulk of these routes are not strictly in Hants, but the Billy Trail is! Going the other way one can use the ferry at Langstone and 'do' Portsea Island and beyond. All flat terain here which is a bonus for us oldies. As the previous poster said, the Isle of Wight is not Hampshire (although it used to be) and is a county in its own right, but it is not true that there are no flat rides there. We go across as foot passengers (bikes free and day return is only a tenner)from gorgeous Lymington in the New Forest (where there are also some corking rides) and then take the flat riverside run from lovely yachty heaven Yarmouth due south to Freshwater, stopping off at All Saint's church and the pub next door on the outskirts of the town. There is also a cracking tea roosms at the end of the run done up like a station to mark the former incarnation of the track. Then it is a bit challenging for us on the ups and downs to Freshwater Bay, where we take the bikes as far as one can up the trail to Tennyson Downs, then hoof the rest of the journey to the highest point and a picnic at the former Poet Laureate's memorial cross and trig point. Glorious views from here across the Island and the Solent to the south coast. I envy the younger and fitter riders who whizzy by with bikes which weigh less than my saddle, as like a good golfer never has a hard shot, they rarely have a problem with the hills on the Isle of Wight as they hit them at 20 mph so do not need to labour as we do! |
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