Summary
Where
Gary Harris Cycles
Common Mead Ln
Hambrook [nr Frenchay], BS16 1QQ
Who
Organiser:
What
Series: Great Western Randonnées
Brief
Head into The Cotswolds to Tickle the Thames in the Thames Water Park and lunch. Only one #wills_hills!
Event Info
£8.00
12/02/27 @ 15:00
BP
Audax Awards
100
121 km
10-25 kph
11h36
Rainbow Flat
917m
Facilities
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Overview
Description
Thames Tickler is fast route with just one major climb up out of Wotton under Edge before heading into the upper reaches of the Thames Valley; pass close to its source. Lunch stop at Carlé’s Coffee in the The Cotswolds Water Park before the last stretch back to the Arrivée at The White Lion, Frenchay.
Navigation
Route notes and a variety of files/links will be available usually 5 days before the event.
Will's are considered the Gold Standard for AUK events!
Map
The interactive map below is a guide, subject to change and not necessarily the final version. Toggle 'chart' for elevation & approx. slope %; now works in full screen too.
Route & validation
- The route is advisory - you just have to visit the controls and gain proof of passage within time limits where specified; there may be parts that you'd like to take a different route and that is entirely up to you; the time limits for the controls don't change!
- Validation: Instant - you get to take your validated brevet card home straight away at the end of the event.
Start details
Parking:
No parking available at the start - please use local on road parking in and around Frenchay Village; Beckspool Rd and Frenchay Hill have no parking restrictions.
For full details see Gary Harris Cycles
Reviews
What others think.
Thames tickler ride
Great ride into the Cotswolds.
Traffic a bit busy around the Water Park but not enough of an issue to warrant changing the route.
Nice one
Enjoyed this brisk (for me, anyway) 200km.
Great start, with plenty of parking, coffee shop. Nice winter route. Final control was a ‘banger’ and the soup was pot on.
A couple of suggestions that might make it a little better….
1. A ‘suggested’ stop before the half way post office control which was rammed (luckily it wasn’t raining) – I know we can freestyle and stop anywhere, but not knowing the area a couple of suggestions either side would’ve been nice.
2. The final section through the outskirts of North East Bristol, which is probably unavoidable, was a bit sketchy traffic-wise
Apart from those minor things…. brill!
Great mid winter ride.
Brilliant little ride, just enough to keep you ticking over,
Great Cotswold ride
A really good out and back ride through the Cotswolds. Loved the half way cafe stop at the old post office.
MP Air Mail 200 Review
Excellent pumcture free December ride through the Cotswolds.
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