London to Portsmouth / East Wittering, ever done it? - London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

ChrisW · 2nd May 2007

Hi all, i'm off camping this weekend near East Wittering (PO20 8PJ) and I can't decide between heading down on my fixed wheel and heading down on my motorbike... Its about 75 miles from me(Dulwich), anyone attempted it before? Sound like a good/bad/terrible/legburning idea?

Chris

VelocityBoy · 2nd May 2007

It will take you much of the day, but perfectly possible.

How will you be carrying all your stuff?

TheBrick(Tommy) · 2nd May 2007

You could always cycle one way and take the train back or only cycle part of the way back and get on a train.

ChrisW · 2nd May 2007

I'll have mates going down in a car, so they can take my kit then camping for 2 days and train/cycle back......

Motorbiking down in also appealing though.......

allyb · 2nd May 2007

Could be quite hilly as you are going over the south downs. Why not train down to Guilford or something then ride the best bits.

By the way what motorbike you got?

mdja · 2nd May 2007

There's a bunch of people doing a Friday night ride down that way, you might want to join them:

http://bikereader.com/forum/index.php?topic=32290.0

ChrisW · 2nd May 2007

Hmmm I am thinking that those hilly south downs might turn out to be a bit of a pain..............

dicki · 2nd May 2007

the start of my french trip last summer was the ride down to portsmouth out of london via chichester set of about 11.30 got there about sun down in august 94.8 miles time 7hrs 06min taken from my cat eye which i think is pretty close. beautiful roads all around goodwood and the road from the a3 that goes down to a272 petersfield / midhurst ish i think great journey nice pub lunch and a pint or two

aidan · 2nd May 2007

yeah im from petersfield,i would recomend the pubs.....but they tend to fill up with a bunch of tossers quite quickly. im concidering riding that, when my fixie's complete

winston · 2nd May 2007

I've ridden to Havant and back quite a few times, the fastest I did it was 4.5 hours from Brixton, hills aren't too bad if you go near Petersfield you'll probably only have to go over no more than one biggish hill......Nice ride, beautiful countryside, but don't rate Witterings much as a destination!...I used to "surf" there....I say surf....more like I used to ride a surfboard on lines of windswept mush.

winston · 2nd May 2007

that's 4.5 hours one way!

winston · 2nd May 2007

make it South harting Hill if you want a tough one....the Tour de France went over it last time it was in UK....it's quite steep, but not that long.....the descent is really nice and long, you'll be halfway between Petersfield and Chichester before you know it..

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2nd May 2007	#1
ChrisW	Hi all, i'm off camping this weekend near East Wittering (PO20 8PJ) and I can't decide between heading down on my fixed wheel and heading down on my motorbike... Its about 75 miles from me(Dulwich), anyone attempted it before? Sound like a good/bad/terrible/legburning idea? Chris
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2nd May 2007	#2
VelocityBoy	It will take you much of the day, but perfectly possible. How will you be carrying all your stuff?
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2nd May 2007	#3
TheBrick(Tommy)	You could always cycle one way and take the train back or only cycle part of the way back and get on a train.
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2nd May 2007	#5
allyb	Could be quite hilly as you are going over the south downs. Why not train down to Guilford or something then ride the best bits. By the way what motorbike you got?
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2nd May 2007	#6
mdja	There's a bunch of people doing a Friday night ride down that way, you might want to join them: http://bikereader.com/forum/index.php?topic=32290.0
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2nd May 2007	#8
dicki	the start of my french trip last summer was the ride down to portsmouth out of london via chichester set of about 11.30 got there about sun down in august 94.8 miles time 7hrs 06min taken from my cat eye which i think is pretty close. beautiful roads all around goodwood and the road from the a3 that goes down to a272 petersfield / midhurst ish i think great journey nice pub lunch and a pint or two
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2nd May 2007	#9
aidan	yeah im from petersfield,i would recomend the pubs.....but they tend to fill up with a bunch of tossers quite quickly. im concidering riding that, when my fixie's complete
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2nd May 2007	#10
winston	I've ridden to Havant and back quite a few times, the fastest I did it was 4.5 hours from Brixton, hills aren't too bad if you go near Petersfield you'll probably only have to go over no more than one biggish hill......Nice ride, beautiful countryside, but don't rate Witterings much as a destination!...I used to "surf" there....I say surf....more like I used to ride a surfboard on lines of windswept mush.
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