Wild Cycling

Our first off-road event for 2025 and a great day out on the off-road tracks surrounding Farnham. It's just 23 miles but can be both challenging and hilly in places so you will need a reasonable level of fitness and an MTB or gravel bike to complete the ride.

We meet at 10am in Farnham Station (cheap all day parking). The ride features lots of interesting off-road tracks including Bourne Wood, a famous film location featured in Gladiator and Harry Potter. There will be refreshment/lunch break at the National Trust's Frensham Ponds at around noon. We then head to the Lions Mouth on Hankley Common, visiting the part demolished Atlantic Wall replica used to train D-Day troops and then the awesome Devil's Jumps at Churt. After that we head to Headley Down to the Alice Holt Forest before the short ride to Farnham Station and ending the ride at around 4pm.

£4 fee applies - PAY ON THE DAY. Please note that we are no longer paying through the regular Meetup payment facility as they have doubled their costs this year and I don't want to pass this on to you.

CYCLING IS DANGEROUS SO YOU JOIN THIS RIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK

THIS RIDE MAY BE CANCELLED IF THE WEATHER IS INCLEMENT

As it's early Spring and the ground is pretty well sodden we shall avoid the muddier bits on this mostly road (but with some off-road) circular ride taking us to Box Hill and starting and ending at Surbiton Station. A good Spring ride to keep you fit and ready for our new season of summer events.

We meet at Surbiton Station for a 10.00 start and make our way via Epsom Race Course to Walton-on-the Hill where we stop for coffee. Then onwards by road to Box Hill and down the Zig Zag Road to Mickleham and Stoke D'abernon. Through The Prince's Coverts to Claygate and ending back at Surbiton at around 4pm latest. Hybrid or Gravel bikes would be best.

A fee of £4 applies PAY ON THE DAY

IF THE WEATHER IS INCLEMENT THE RIDE WILL BE CANCELLED

CYCLING CAN BE DANGEROUS SO YOU CYCLE AT YOUR OWN RISK

This is a FREE ride starting from Richmond Park Gate at 10am from whence we cycle into London to find more than 100 giant decorated eggs. As it's a Sunday traffic will be light allowing us to parambulate safely as we hunt down the eggs.

The Big Egg Hunt 2025 trail will include sites at Battersea Power Station, Covent Garden, Chelsea, Marylebone, Marble Arch and Canary Wharf, as well as Buckingham Palace, the Barbican and the Saatchi Gallery.

Wildlife charity Elephant Family and egg producer Clarence Court are behind the exhibition, which features work from from the worlds of art, fashion and food. There will be an App available to download from the Elephant Family website which will enable us to 'tick off' the eggs we visit.

We'll stop in Battersea Park for a coffee break at around 11am and stop for lunch at a pub near Canary Wharf, probably The Grapes in Limehouse which is owned by Ian McKellen.

The ride will end at Waterloo Station at around 4pm from where we can board a train home. This is an easy ride of around 30 miles and all flat so it's very achievable. A secure lock will be needed to tether our bikes outside The Grapes.

CYCLING IS DANGEROUS SO YOU RIDE WITH US AT YOUR OWN RISK