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Hampshire - South West
eternal_headwind
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Hello All. Two years ago I spent a couple of days riding the South Coast. The IoW was lovely but I felt the section Poole>Lymington was a nightmare of traffic and traffic lights. Traffic lights in particular. I am thinking of going back next year but doing want the traffic. I am looking for suggestions 40-70 miles in length based around the Lymington area. I am a roadie, a bit of gravel is ok but no knobby tire stuff.
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Here you go for a safe route to copy. Make sure you avoid the A337.
If you want to make a loop, you can join up from Brockenhurst to Beaulieu via the B3055 which is a nice road - more fun going East to West as slightly downhill.
B3054 is also fine traffic wise, but surface is horrible (has narrow, horizonatal ruts every 100m or so which drive me insane).
The road that runs from Bolderwood down to Rhinefield house is also quite fun if you can incorporate it.
@shirley_basso has probably covered it all anyway, but here is one that starts and finishes in Ringwood, but if you ignore that it is a 100km/60 mile loop.
https://strava.com/routes/2730475597803218852
There is a WALL between Blissford and Frogham, which I notice sb's route navigates around!
I do recall it being covered in gravel and general censored at the bottom of the hill, when you are trying to carry as much speed as you dare from the proceeding downhill, so perhaps better to skirt around it.
It's been a couple of years since I rode it, but I recall it being a very nice route, not too busy either, though it was a Sunday morning we rode it.
Here are two longer variants too (Neither of which I have ridden):
https://strava.com/routes/2730471350009016570
https://strava.com/routes/2730465141559249146
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Since I got the riding mojo six years ago, getting there from east of the city centre is pretty hostile and unpleasant, when I can head ~3 miles north through to east and reach quiet rural lanes on the edge of the South Downs rolling hill lanes.
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