A ride to Horsted Keynes Aug 10

A long ride for those who live north of the river but it would be good to see a reasonable turnout to meet the East Sussex CTC. We will be meeting at Tesco Hookwood about 1030. Since we wont be huge numbers lets meet in the coffee bar just inside the entrance ( well it was last year) rather than the cafe upstairs ( I will check upstairs for the bacon sarnie addicts).

Please dont underestimate the time to get to Hookwood ( on the outskirts of Gatwick/Horley). We need to leave at 11 to give us a relaxed ride to lunch. 19 miles to lunch and then a new route back. With Fanny's closed I'm going to come back through Horley and assuming modest numbers stop at the shop/cafe in Strood Green near Brockham ( 23 miles). If the weather stays kind there will be a short, worthwhile and fairly benign offroad section just after lunch. Fishermen take their cars along it though admittedly their tyres are wider than ours.

For those who think its a long way then the return route and tea stop make it possible to train it home from either Horley (to Clapham Junction via E Croydon) or from Dorking.

Author: Brian

2 Comments:

Steph 09 August 2016 at 08:40 BST

Thanks for the e-mail Brian. Sorry I can't join you. The off-road sounds intriguing!

Jeff 09 August 2016 at 13:03 BST

'Benign' and 'offroad' seem two somewhat incompatible bedfellows. As for those anglers, I suspect they drive 4x4s or tractors.