U3A Cycle Club Smiles Ride

Smiles Ride

Gentle ride to build confidence or get back into cycling after a break

Date: Thursday 12 April 

Leader: Peter Crutchfield (mobile 07798 820 449)

Time: 09:50 for 10:00 start

Start/Finish: Bourne Green Car Park next to pavilion and cricket nets. GU10 3PW

Refreshments: Orchard Barn Cafe

Return Time: Approx 12:30

Distance: Approx 13 miles

Conditions: Fairly gentle ride with a bit of a hill at the start but otherwise fairly flat and quiet with a bit of off road on Hankley Common - mix of quiet and fairly quiet country roads with a section of off road through Hankley Common which is a little soft/sandy in a few places. OK for hybrids but probably not narrow tyre road bikes.

Route: Dene Lane/Old Frensham Rd/The Reeds Rd to Millbridge. 200 metres on A287 then Priory Lane past Frensham Little pond, Grange Rd, Eglington Rd, Lowicks Lane to Tilford Rd. Refreshments at Orchard Barn Cafe. Thursley Rd and left to Hankley Main car park. Off road section past Atlantic Wall and across golf course rejoining Tilford Rd. Past Tilford Green, over River Wey and left onto The Reeds Rd, past Rural Life Centre and right into Old Frensham Rd returning to Bourne Green car park.