mbr North Downs Killer Loop

At the end of January we received a call from mbr magazine, asking us to guide them on a ride in the area for their Killer Loop series. So we set a date for our following Wednesday day off, and Oli and I, along with our friend Dom, took Tom, Paul and Geoff from the magazine out to play in what turned out to be the first snowy day of the winter.

We were asked to do a route of about 20-30 miles, so rather than just doing the obvious Leith, Holmbury, Pitch circuit, we headed out over Box Hill, through Norbury Park, and then over Ranmore Common before finishing off on Holmbury and Leith. The Box Hill and Ranmore riding can be slippery in the winter, but the tracks we took are flinty rather than chalky, so rideable all year round.

 The full details of the route are in the April issue of mbr (out now), or we’ve got special editions of the Oaktree Routes maps printed with the route on sale in the shop (with a sneaky short suggestion cut too if you don’t want to tackle the full 28 miles!).

Dan

IMPORTANT ROUTE CORRECTION!

If you’ve got a copy of mbr and are planning to ride the route, please note that there is a mistake on the map pull-out. To avoid riding through someone’s garden (where the track rejoins the road) and for a more interesting end to the ride, take the route marked in purple below, rather than the published blue route.