Isle of Wight day trip 2024

This post is to measure interest in a day trip to the Isle of Wight in September. The island offers great cycling terrain with fantastic scenery, and excluding a personal mishap (!) has been the location for some wonderful away days prior to Covid.

A brief recap on how it would work: a relatively early start by car from Buckingham for a drive of approx 2 hours to park adjacent to the ferry at Lymington (close to SO41 5SB). We travel as foot passengers (with our bikes!) over to Yarmouth, and then go for a ride on the island with suitable cafe stops throughout the day. Return home early evening.

A complete circumnavigation is around 65 miles but other routes are available to suit all interests (see eg the komoot link below), so this would be an event open to all ride categories.

If you are interested, please sign up (no commitment at this stage) and feel free to add comments, questions and suggestions in the chat below.

It should be good fun so hope many of you can join!

https://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/thing­s-to-do/cycling/round-the-island-route
https://www.cyclinguk.org/route/round-is­le-wight
https://www.komoot.com/guide/34145/road-­cycling-routes-in-the-isle-of-wight
https://www.lifeinthesaddle.cc/2019/08/b­est-road-cycling-routes-isle-of-wight.ht­ml
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/2548849

Is there a C ish ride ! ?👍😆

@KatieR - yes! Come along and encourage a few fellow C riders to come too and there will be!

Hello! I'd like to join. Can I bring a friend with me?

Might decide to stop over somewhere before / after.

@Mihai yes that would be fine - I assume that they would cycle with you? You may want to encourage them to come out with you on some club rides first to check that they are happy cycling with us! And if they enjoy it they can join up 😉

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Thank you very much James. He lives in Cheltenham, so low chance he'll be able to join our club rides. He is a far better rider than me (A ride-level) and knows very well how to ride in a group ride.

Hi Katie - definitely!