Dorset rideout, fave roads and stops?
Discussion
R1 Dave said:
A350 from Warminster to Poole is good. Can always detour via Compton Abbas airfield for a coffee too. Weymouth is always nice, the A354 from there to Salisbury is fun, a bit straight in places but some nice twisties too. West Bay is popular with bikes too.
A350 from Shaftesbury to Blandford is crap. I’d take the top road (C13 or Higher Shaftesbury Road) from Shaftesbury to Blandford. Stop off at Compton Abbas for a coffee although I heard that they weren’t as welcoming to bikers a couple of years ago? Wimborne to Cranborne road is good. Not much to do in Cranborne though. Nice cafes in Wimborne though.
Can’t remember the road name, but the A road from Sherborne to Dorchester. Good fun.
Coast road Weymouth to West Bay as well (although can be busy at the weekends with nice weather).
Zig Zag Hill (near Compton Abbas) is s
t itself but the road at the top is good with cracking views. LosingGrip said:
R1 Dave said:
A350 from Warminster to Poole is good. Can always detour via Compton Abbas airfield for a coffee too. Weymouth is always nice, the A354 from there to Salisbury is fun, a bit straight in places but some nice twisties too. West Bay is popular with bikes too.
A350 from Shaftesbury to Blandford is crap. I’d take the top road (C13 or Higher Shaftesbury Road) from Shaftesbury to Blandford. Stop off at Compton Abbas for a coffee although I heard that they weren’t as welcoming to bikers a couple of years ago? Wimborne to Cranborne road is good. Not much to do in Cranborne though. Nice cafes in Wimborne though.
Can’t remember the road name, but the A road from Sherborne to Dorchester. Good fun.
Coast road Weymouth to West Bay as well (although can be busy at the weekends with nice weather).
Zig Zag Hill (near Compton Abbas) is s
t itself but the road at the top is good with cracking views. The airfield are still very happy with bikers, I was up there a few weeks ago and the car park was full of nice bikes and cars too.
Also West Bay, there's a cafe there next to helmet city does a good full English, nice ride around the local countryside, also Clouds Hill for T E lawence and his marker. Around Corfe Castle and Studland good roads but this time of year there will be a lot of cars who are not aware.
Stay out of the forest, too busy, but Sammy Millers in New Milton, two birds with one stone, tea room and museum
Stay out of the forest, too busy, but Sammy Millers in New Milton, two birds with one stone, tea room and museum
V1nce Fox said:
This feels as though i could easily split rideouts into west dorset, east dorset, etc.
Very much so, also as already mentioned you have shaftsbury and Cranborne Chase, I think there's a camera in the chase now. Also up around Stonehenge and through the Tarrants, fun roads.R1 Dave said:
gareth_r said:
Café Corsa (formerly Café Newt)?
This is a great shout. Nice people who run that place too and lots of nice Italian stuff to drool over.It's almost sounding like there's enough local PHers for a rideout sometime?
breadvan said:
I’m up for a ride, let’s get something sorted.
Ok. So as a hypothetical if it were a sunday ride, say starting at 11am from Bakers Arms car park and doing a route with maybe a couple of stops and something like the bridport triangle and maybe swanage via langton on way back then back across ferry, who’d be up for it?Should add not out to lose licences or limbs, more interested in including all riders.
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