King Alfred's Way: New Offroad/Bikepacking Route

[CassidyAce]

Joins up some existing routes and looks scenic: https://www.cyclinguk.org/press-release ... rn-england.

 

[Splatter Paint]

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With a good bit of planning I reckon that'd be a decent 3 day weekend.

SP

 

[mk one]

Thank you for the link, just need to kit a bike out for longer trips.

 

[player]

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With a good bit of planning I reckon that'd be a decent 3 day weekend.

SP

I'd fancy that Mike.

 

[Markybeau]

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I've been looking at this. I'd very much like to do it.

 

[rmwesley]

Did KAW starting last Thursday, finishing yesterday afternoon. To say the weather was inappropriate was a slight understatement. I will forever have fond memories of pushing the bike up Butser Hill in horizontal driving rain and a 25mph headwind, however the real killer were the chalk tracks which turned to treacle and clogged up everything in literally seconds. Had to carry the bike for a couple of miles at one point when the wheels stopped turning. Luckily found a kind soul in a village who jet washed both me and the bike to get me going again.

Yesterday saved the trip though when the sun finally came out…









The other godsend was the Rose and Crown pub in Ashbury. Stayed there on the last night. What a pub!