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[Solocle]

Ta for that - I'll have a look at a possible route tonight

Just if you do go near Great Milton don't make the same navigation error I did on that map! Although that was due to a propped open gate in the dark, in all fairness. 🫣

 

[steverob]

Nice, yeah, that Northeastern end towards Chippy gets pretty lumpy.

For Sandhills, almost certainly easiest to to use the cycle path beside the A40. To the south you've got Shotover, which is itself a decent climb.

I'd probably be looking at heading to Wheatley and then coming back via Horspath, Cuddesdon Road and Butts Road probably?
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The south east corner of that map has the access route to one of my favourite back roads. Head down from Great Haseley to Little Haseley, then on to Rofford Lane towards Chalgrove. Really quiet, pretty scenery, fairly smooth tarmac.

 

[alex_cycles]

I had considered doing more but opted only for 12 tiles today. The "optional" orange section will be for another occasion. The hill at Shotover/Rissinghurst was "interesting". Technically a footpath and technically it needed to be in places. 24%, muddy and tree roots everywhere. Deffo a gravel bike route though for that hilly section Rissinghurst to Littleworth. The rest was road bikeable.

 

[Solocle]

The south east corner of that map has the access route to one of my favourite back roads. Head down from Great Haseley to Little Haseley, then on to Rofford Lane towards Chalgrove. Really quiet, pretty scenery, fairly smooth tarmac.

Actually did that one on an audax, iirc the wind behind me, was cruising along hitting 40 km/h.

 

[steverob]

You also need to do the bit through Little Halsey for the full experience. It's a really well maintained single track road that just goes straight through the middle of a corn field. Get the wind in the right direction and it's a total blast.