Hampshire Riding

Great pics DV 😀 great ride and I took a chance on the rear tyre to get another two yesterday in and around Chawton Woods/ Bushey Leaze 🙄 My depleted stock of patches and tubes is even more so now and really must look for a new 26" tyre of about 2.0/2.1"

Okay, Sunday 20th, I'm in 😀 Late morning sounds favourable, 11-ish? Happy to meet at chez Bartimaeus or car park, whichever is more convenient for others. As you can see, I am nothing but flexible 😉 Very much looking forward to it, is it the three of us so far? Presuming johnj won't be able to make it?

As for length of ride, happy to attempt either and will willingly follow our guide for the day and what he feels most appropriate. Over to you Bartimaeus! 😀

Next day tyres is your friend slackalice.... that and making a decision!! 😉

Yes, its the decision bit that I'm struggling with 🙄

Dare I start a 'what tyre?' thread? 😳

Go on...You know you want to!!!

A longer ride gives more scope for pub/tea shop diversions...

Good thinking! If we were to start late morning, given a stop or two for re-fuelling, what's the likely length of time please? Just so I can manage expectations 🙂

Sorry guys unless there is an act of god then the shopping trip will be going ahead and I will be single dad for the day. Enjoy the ride and let's try and make it a regular thing, that is of course if you all get on 🙂

I'm up for a longer ride, especially if cake is involved!! And I like john's suggestion for making at a regular event...

Nobby Nic EVO Pacestar Triple compound TLR Snakeskin 2.1 won the day 🙂 for those interested. £40 inc 1st class delivery from NDT.

And some rather fetching bar ends from Cyclesurgery 🙂 in green too 8)

I'm not that hungry 😉

Green xlite stubbies??? 😉

while we are on the subject of hampshire riding, I managed to lose my knog blinder somewhere between cheesefoot head and baybridge. MOst probably in the woods bit but if anyone comes across it could you let me know. All black and missing the mount (still on my bars!)...

reward for information leading to safe return of sadly missed illuminator

For sale, one used knog blinder-1 not so careful owner......... 😉

Will keep an eye out if I get up there this weekend, it's been a while since I rode from cheesefoot.

Pretty slim chance I know but stranger things have happened....

Would you post that light 😀

Just a quickie

****HEAD DOWN Buriton has been visited by a determined stick man *****

Cleared the path up to the start point for the dh/wiggle waggle etc

Cleared top of wiggle waggle and multiple places along its length

Cleared parts of 200m

Cleared the tight twisty wooded sections that formed part of the last day enduro

Cleared multiple parts of enduro route 4

Some were obvious some less so and they were big obstacles that would catch you out.

Go carefull

Thanks for heads up, will keep a wary eye

Steelsreal - I sometimes ride there, actually was headed there today but tubeless tyre exploded on the trail. 😯 Will be up there again so will watch out.

Great ride tonight from titchfield abbey to wickham railway. Up into Bere forest and from there I am lost, little bit of road but mostly off road stuff, really enjoyed it despite my riding partner big Shep who cheats on hills. I have proof now that 29rs are massively quicker than 26rs on hills going up 😉

So... Sunday 20th. Who's in, so we can agree a time? I'm thinking 3-4 hours or so riding plus time for pub/cake stops... so if it's a mid morning start we will be out over lunch time.

I'm definitely in... And a mid morning start is good for me, about 11ish?? just tell me where I need to be and I'll be there

I'm in! Ditto above.

Headed out early this morning for [url= http://my.viewranger.com/route/details/NTk0Mw%3D%3D ]a loop[/url] from Alresford taking in Cheesyfeet Head and the Meons.. overgrown in places but not too bad for the most part, just blinkin' hot!

My breakfast stop:

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Can anyone advise of an off road route from cheesyfoot head to Andover? I fancy giving riding to work a bash but currently can only get as far as cheesy before I need to join a road and then subsequently the A34 which is never going to happen.

@ Bartemaeus & DV - hoping that my long time riding buddy will be joining us on Sunday too 😀

Looking forward to seeing you at 11 tomorrow morning for our ride and especially the cream tea 8)

Caaaaake!!! Looks like my friend won't be able to make it.... But definitely looking forward to it.

Nice pic from frogstomp. 😀

john - there seems to be a few opportunities to cross the A34. There's an NCN through Winch but looks as though you'd need to pick up the B3420 before hitting the off road trails although if you diverted through Itchen Wood you could really increase the off road trails.

Bartimus... Is this ride tomorrow singlespeedable???

I'm planning on riding my PYGA if that helps you DV 😀

Or have you now two bikes in bits? 😉

Lovely colour though!

Weeeeeel... I now have the bits, minus forks, for 2 bikes... Decisions decisions....though tbfit's probably going to be the canyon so I don't rush the build on the stanton.... Probably

I'm in for a ride tomorrow.. whereabouts are you starting from?

Hi Frogstomp, just sent you a mail with Bartimaeus' address, which is where we're meeting at 11am tomorrow

Looking forward to it! 8)

EDIT: Your mail addy in your profile doesn't seem to want to receive mail, if you'd like to PM me, I'll send you on the address details.

EDIT: cancel that, my mistake in copying your PM addy. New mail sent.

Nice one.. see you tomorrow!

Enjoy the ride everyone

Great ride today guys.. many thanks to Fergus for the guiding and Tim for the flapjack! B-)

no worries, was a great ride, thanks Bartimaus.. however i still am not too sure the words "a nice" and "climb" should be in the same sentence!!!
so i did the Bavid Daily and took some snaps. i have omitted the ones with facial pics of slackalice (due, we were led to beleive, to legal reasons 😉 😆 ) hopefully bartimaus can supply where the pics were taken

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Haha! 😀 What a stonkingly good ride! 8) Big up and thanks to Batimaeus for excellent guiding, forewarning of the trail to come, snippets of local information and for riding so effortlessly up the "nice climbs" 😉

My phone app made it as 27miles and a bit, with an average of just under 9.5mph - which I'm pretty chuffed with over such terrain - although I'm sure Barimaeus and Frostomp would have easily done it quicker, so thank you both for waiting for us at the tops 😀

The route contained a fab mix of everything, wooded single track, SDW, tiny bit's of road linking, rapid descents that required concentration, the downhill trails at Stoughton that were preceded by all of us admitting that we were definitely in the 'wheels on the ground' type of riders and rad gnarr was duly shredded with finesse and maturity 😀 . We had climbs that ranged from 'nice', to 'very nice', to 'incredibly nice', just because it maintained its sharp gradient for so very long… Definitely the Hors Categorie climb of the day - which was all very quickly forgotten with the 2km descent that followed, even though DV picked up the only puncture of the day. We did the decent thing and carried on, safe in the knowledge that the bears would be more apprehensive of him than he of they 😉

Yep, continuous litigation over broken camera lenses and loss of pixels, means that unfortunately, my visage must no longer be captured without due consent, never mind! However, I feel everyone else is fair game and I produced my camera for the main reason for the ride in the first place - namely the cream tea stop 😛

In no particular order, the happy crew include Dom (riding buddy of mine for the last 20+ years 8) ), Bartimaeus, Daftvader and Frogstomp.

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And here are our bikes taking a rest during the stop

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I think the locations for DV's pics are:
Looking over Stoughton
Top of Kingley Vale - bit hazy for a really good view of the Channel and IOW
Lunch stop in I think Stoughton
The next two are Harting Down
Cream Tea in Compton.

Bartimaues, Frogstomp, daftvader and my mate Dom, thank you all very much for a great ride with great company, gorgeous weather, dry trails and no injuries! 😀 8)

Ffs! I still look like a fat hamster!!!

I think hamster is a bit harsh! 😉

Oi!!! 😆 but it does mean I don't need to pedal down the hills so much 😉

Well I really enjoyed that, including the uphill bits... and once you're 'up' you know that it's time to head 'down'. Thanks for coming, guys.

Pics (1) Walderton Down at 'the bar' overlooking Stoughton, (2) Kingley Vale looking south over Stoke Clump (you have to imagine that you can see Chichester Cathedral and the Isle of Wight as it was very hazy), (3) The Royal Oak at Hooksway, (4) Harting Downs looking NW towards South Harting, (5) Tower Hill ruins, at Uppark, and finally (6) The promised cream tea at the Compton Village Shop and Tea Room - splendid!

[url= http://veloviewer.com/ ]Veloviewer[/url] 3D route
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According to Strava the climb out of Stoughton is 129m in 1.2km, with the steep section 86m in 500m... today was my 77th and 15th fastest ascent. That one is not 'a nice climb'!

Nice... Like the 3d graphic

That does put it all into perspective and glad I didn't see that graphic before we left 😉

My cycle meter app suggests 3014ft of climbing, or 1000mtrs give or take. How does that compare with your Veloviewer/Strava Bartimaeus?

Hey DV, apologies! Yes you do roll quicker!

I've got 2800ft from my Garmin.. and I am now the King Of The Mountain on the infrequently used B2141 Climb, wherever that was! 8)

Nice one frogstomp.... And slackalice, I don't mind as it's quite true 😀

A lot of effeminate leg crossing going on up there, chaps! 😉

Apologies for radio silence recently, rather busy with family matters. Squeezed in a cheeky loop today though, up past Hannington towards the mast, then on across towards Highclere and then down to the valley again. Was lovely, just lovely. The descent down towards the Kingslclere road was beautiful. Overgrown, dusty, poppy-strewn. I stopped for a while, and all I could hear was the wind tickling the ears of the crops. Stunning.

Strava gave me 1,300m which it then corrected to 770m. Different sites use different algorithms, and I think Strava itself decides whether or not to adjust data based on its source... so a Garmin with barometric altimeter won't get corrected, but my basic GPS will. It's only ever worth comparing like with like.

frogstomp, I can see I'm now 4th on that climb, and we were just cruising. I may have a go at the KOM, as I'm not sure I have ever had one before. I only need 11 seconds but I need to get in quick before the fast people!

Found a lovely little spot to rest beside the River Test, it had a recently installed curved wooden bench. Such temptation to take off my shoes and have a paddle in the clear water! 😀

Did you do it CG? Sounds a lovely place to rest.

Had an hour or so at QECP this evening with Big Shep, good fun and I managed to make a climb I have failed on all year, I was puffing like a 40 a day smoker by the time I reached the top! First time I have used strava at QECP and I now know how bloody slow I am lol. Oh, and and the highlight of the ride was the slowest crash on a mountain bike anyone has ever seen, it looked like something filmed by the 'slo mo' guys.

That sounds great cg.... You certainly should have had a paddle!!
I still haven't been out on my new Stanton yet... However that will be remedied tomorrow, hopefully alton way.
As an aside I did a little research on the kingsley vale ride.. The stand of yews is one of the largest in Europe, some of the trees have been dendro dated to around 2000 years old, it even survived the yew tax of 1472... Definitely going back to have a proper look. Cheers bartimaeus.....

yew tax of 1472

In 1472 the statute of Westminster was passed that, due to the need for yew to make war bows, 4 staves of yew were to be provided for every tun (roughly 240 gallons of wine) unloaded at a British port....

Kingley Vale is an amazing place, haven't been there for at least 10 years.

Nice history lesson from daftvader. 8) Have you managed to ride your new steed yet?

I've just had an interesting ride, specifically alongside where the Boomtown festival will take place this weekend (Cheesefoot Head). Lorries being driven precariously whilst negotiating tight turns plus masses of equipment covering an enormous area. Did I mention the dust?

Popped into a lovely thatched pub for some liquid refreshment. Had a small cup of tea from a machine, a glass of cranberry juice plus a packet of crisps. That'll be £6 please. 😯

Yup, a short shakedown ride yesterday, everything apart from a slipping Seatpost, was brilliant. Can't wait to get it to some fast trails. As for the history, I'm a bit of a geek especially when it comes to archery, medieval weaponry and trees!! 😀

Which pub was that CG? Should have just had a pint 🙂

Good news there! Your interests are certainly, er, interesting - the combination that is!

A heads-up for anyone riding the gulley in Hampage Wood, near Ovington - it is still there but very well hidden. It look as though the double-track bridleway descends through the wood but it doesn't. Immediately before this and continuing in the same direction as before, the bridleway looks narrow and impassable but it does improve.

afternoon...
well another stonking ride with Mr Slackalice. Cheesefoot head this time. the trails were absolutely stunning and none of it was very hard, and every so often the trail threw up some delightful single track and some really swoopy trails 8) . the views seemed to go on for ever too , only managed to take a couple of pics. couldn't have had a better hangover cure (figured i might loose my lunch after the first climb but thankfully didn't )
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oh and the stanton.... soooooo good 😀 8) 😀
cheers...

john - pub was the only one in the village of Tichborne.

Gorgeous pics daftvader especially the fluffy clouds. 😀 Have you ridden the gulley in the woods near Ovington?

no idea where that is i'm afraid... will have a look
edit... just had a look and we went south, so no but will put it on the to do list

Lovely pics do need to get out there again soon, maybe one night after work next week.

[b]SORRY BUT I'M GOING TO INDULGE IN A RANTETTE!!![/b]

OK the wonderful 4 off road cycle trail packs, costing either £2 or £2.99 per pack, produced by Hampshire County Council:

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/cycling/cycle-trails.htm

It would seem that Ordnance Survey have come up with a new wheeze, namely the same routes but in A4 format and the cost ... wait for it ... [b]£12.99 per pack[/b].

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/maps.html?cat%5B0%5D=63&cat%5B1%5D=64&utm_content=

Alternatively you can download in pdf format at [b]£1.99 per route.[/b]

Is off road cycling the new golf???

Well that's nuts. You can have a years subscription to OS GetaMap for £15 and just mark them up and print them off yourself.

Thank you for reading my little rantette jambalaya. 🙂

You can even download them off the HCC website although, to be fair, some info is cut off but the gist is there.

Edit: I've also posted a review of a set on the OS website. Wonder if I'll get banned? 😉

@cg - let's just say I marked up some maps for myself and send them for your review to see if I'd done it right ? Which one are you particularly interested in ?

I need to do a good turn for someone on STW as I seem to be upsetting most people elsewhere !

Choose your topics wisely jambalaya. 😀 Have you been hanging out with the Big Hitters? 😆

I have much affection for those sets as they inspired me to venture off road with my quarter inch travel Trek hardtail. For someone who was clueless about maps, the thought of having those nice little discs on posts to enable me to explore the Hampshire countryside was exciting and brilliant.

Ooooh and just to say that I recognise daftvader's 2nd pic, looks quite different from a week or so ago when I was fighting my way through. 😀

I hacked 65k's on the CX last Tuesday, off down tonight for more of the same, Yay!!

I just need to post a thank you to Big Shep. One f the reasons it started this topic/thread was to try and get myself motivated by others riding in hants. Big Shep has got me out mid week round some local stuff that I couldn't link together myself and it's been great fun. Bit shit for him as he has t wait for me at the top of every hill but I am enjoying it and that's all that matters really 🙂

So, to build on this Hampshire riding love I think we need to get a group ride together like the one that happened a few weeks ago. How many of us could make either cheesefoot, QECP, Kingsley vale as a location? Date to follow when location decided.

[quote=cinnamon girl]It would seem that Ordnance Survey have come up with a new wheeze, namely the same routes but in A4 format and the cost ... wait for it ... £12.99 per pack.

I have set I don't use you can have for a tenner (+p&p)? 😛

I could be up for a 'Hampshire' ride - I rarely brave anywhere west of the A3 so maybe I should expand my horizons a bit 😀

The way the rain is coming down it may be a Hampshire swim bartimaeus... 😆 And I'd be up for anether group outing, so long as frogstomp and bartimaeus wait at the tops.... Again!! 😀

We need a voting thingy on here, but we don't have one, so options as far as I see it are:
Mess around on the trails at QECP.
SDW ride from QECP.
SDW ride from Cheesefoot(Winchester) including cg's sneaky Singletrack bits.
Kingley Vale as per last ride.

Any advance on those options?

CX bikes allowed?? 😆

Provided if fits in with other events I'm doing I'm up for a Groupootle 😀

Great idea peeps! The ride DV and I did from Cheesefoot was a great one, despite my legs suffering from a lack of rest!

I'll gladly tag along any group ride, so long as it's before the 26th Aug, as after that it's goodbye Hampshire, hello Norfolk for the Slack family 8)

SDW ride from Cheesefoot(Winchester) including cg's sneaky Singletrack bits.

I'm only avaliable after the bank holiday, so likely miss this one. However I'd vote for the cheesefoot head one as it was a really nice ride...

Ok so we have a venue, do we have a guide? I only know out and back from cheesy.

Date? 17th or 18th?

DV used his flash Garmin thing for our ride, so doubtless he has a gpx type file available.

I logged the route on my Cyclemeter phone app too. I'm not sure if I can get a working file from it so I'll have a look. I've found the phone app not too easy to use as a route navigator as I keep it in the Camelbak, so if someone has a Garmin or similar, we'll be fine! I'm happy to strap it to my bars and lead, although I'm not the quickest /fittest of riders! 😉

Will see if I can sort one out later, who wants it?? If I can't it's the hants council rout for cheesefoot head....

I've an 810, you can ping the file to me if you like 😀

Will do.... Off to Derbyshire tomorrow so will try tonight, if I don't drop me an email and I will do it Monday.