Isle of Wight route from Yarmouth?

miss notax
miss notax Posts: 2,572
edited April 2011 in Routes
Hello :D

It's my birthday in a few weeks time, and I thoght I would incorporate visiting my folks in Yarmouth (for cake and pressies obviously :wink: ) with a days MTB ride :D

I've tried searching on-line and I think I have found an MBR hard route from Yarmouth, but can't find any info on it. Any ideas of which issue this was covered in (we have years worth of MBR's at home), or of the route? Happy to ride all day, as technical as possible really! Although my folks live there I have never ridden on the IOW so i'm open to suggestions!

Thanks 8)
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Comments

  • JasonRwmb
    JasonRwmb Posts: 268
    This round the island loop is good, and can be started from Yarmouth:
    http://www.extremists.co.uk/randonee.html

    WightRoute.jpg

    I haven't done the whole loop in one go, but have done big chunks of it, either starting from Cowes or Fishbourne. It is always a tough ride, with more hills than you would expect! The full loop would be a good challenge to do in one day.
  • dunker
    dunker Posts: 1,503
    you could include a fair bit of off-road into too if you really want to beast yourself, from freshwater to st cathrines you could do a big chunk of the hills killer off road route. there is a full off-road round the isle route around somewhere but i've lost the bm. just reading the route looked more technical then actually riding it :lol:

    edit; doh i see jason already found it, geez need more coffee :oops:

    new round the isle pdf maps here,
    http://www.cycleisland.co.uk/

    here's the old big one
    cwiw2.jpg
  • miss notax
    miss notax Posts: 2,572
    Thanks very much :D
    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away....

    Riding a gorgeous ano orange Turner Burner!

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