Routes

Motorcycling
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I live in Balham, Sarf London. I mainly use my Bandit to commute to W14 but I thought I’d make the most of the nice weather today and go for a ride. That’s all I could find was residential suburbia and some slightly quicker A and B roads.

Anyone local know of a decent set of roads I can use? To be fair, even though I’ve lived in SW London for 5 years, my knowledge of the area isn’t fantastic aside from the main roads.

I’m ideally looking for a few faster A roads, but really, some fun twisties. I appreciate it may be a bit of a ride before I get to anywhere approaching half decent fun, but any contributions to routes would help.

Thanks.

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Suggestion 1 - Get beyond the M25 as quickly as possible.

Suggestion 2 - Get on the A3 at Wandsworth and not getting off it until at least Esher.

Suggestion 3 - The A24 runs past the Box Hill cafe just before Dorking. There are good roads starting there.

Suggestion 4 - Join Elad’s confidence run - which will explore some of the routes to and round Box Hill.

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Just get a map of South East England, ride til you get lost and use the map to get home.:slight_smile:

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Suppose it depends what you want.

My favourite is to explore the white roads on the map of Kent and Sussex. Once you’ve got poroperly lost, a cheap compass can be handy for finding the route to a main road.

Do start out with a full tank of petrol though. The gas stations can be few and far between once into the proper boondocks, sorry, fund manager’s areas.

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“The gas stations can be few and far between once into the proper boondocks, sorry, fund manager’s areas.”

Yup they have to use half a tank of petrol in their 4x4/executive sledge to get to where they can fill up then half a tank to get back…etc etc ad infinitum.