If Eliot Bank is on this year's route, I'm likely to give it a miss.Route usually comes out a couple of weeks beforehand. Went past the end of Eliot bank at lunchtime and had a quick peek. The surface is even worse than the last couple of years, I wouldn't be surprised to see it go.
I do this ''ride every road'' thing which led me up Fox Hill (brutal but short) last year - this means I was perfectly entitled to explore Reynard's Drive on the way up without any hint of chickening out, oh no....I looked at Fox Hill on the map. Maybe the wise will take cover half way up in Reynard's Drive. Or is that uphill to?