The South Downs Way | Bike Packing Adventure | Cycling Weekly
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- The South Downs Way is 100 miles off-road route between Eastbourne and Winchester on the south coast of the UK. With two days of hard riding, the team use Komoot to help navigate the Downs and take it easy with a midway BnB overnight stop. | Subscribe to Cycling Weekly here: www.youtube.co...
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Ran the reverse route in 2022 in 23.5 hours and loved it. Thanks for the video: genuinely inspirational. I'm now planning a return visit by bike this time, but will probably go non-stop again. Thanks guys.
That headwind is the reason that going west to east is more popular......
Good vid. I rode the SDW today, from Winchester to Eastbourne. Lots and lots of steep climbs! Great stuff. Keep up the vids
You looked loaded and ready for campjng but took the credit card route instead. Bummer bc that looks like picture perfect camping terrain!
Really enjoyable video and series. Thank you all.
"Rupert doesn't camp"... That moustache says otherwise.
I love your magazine and my dad and I buy it every week and read it with my dad
Done this 1.5 times. One word. Brutal!!
Great video. Watching this makes me realise how well Neil from GMBN did to ride it in a day on his mountain bike....
Really enjoyed this though. Loads of excellent info
Thanks
So cool having walked this west to east to see them do it the other way by bike. So many memorable views.
That is the clue of an adventure on the bike with friends. Thx
Great film guys..... Loving these gravel adventures!
Hahaha I love such videos full of gadgets and top end bikes. Nancy stuff
Ive done Winchester to Eastbourne few days ago on my trek 1120. 29er made it pretty good. 3days bikepacking
I actually walked the south downs this summer and it took me 2 and a half days! I did 70 km on the 1st day 60 on the 2nd and 40 on the third! Pretty awesome what you guys did... so cool to see the SDW from your perspective, maybe one day ill get my own bike and get into bikepacking 😁
Did this last year and knowing about the wind, did it the other way round. Flying along with the wind behind was great.
Nice video. I did Brighton to Goodwood on the SDW on a cyclocross bike and it was too harsh, was really envious of the people I saw on mountain bikes with full suspension! It's a nice route though and is a must for anyone living in the south.
Great video as always! Just purchased a Topstone carbon 105 myself and first impressions are very good!
What a great ride, well done guys, England has some great countryside
Another great adventure, loving this series.... nice one
Looks like fun and painful. However when you love cycling it's worth it. Good video.
i rode SDW Winchester to Eastbourne over 20 years ago in a day, pre GPS obvs and did an extra 13 miles whoops due to navigation errors. We started at 6am, self supported and was having fish & chips in Eastbourne by 7pm.
I had ridden two 100Mile+ sportives in the French Alps the month before, with more elevation and heat but I think this as tough or maybe a tad tougher.
Eastbourne to Winchester is harder than the other way mainly due the headwind that you're talking about which is there more often than not. Much more fun going down Butser aswell !!!
Old Winchester Hill is my club’s favourite Sunday club ride route, beautiful in the summer
Looks great! .. but I think that I’ll start in Winchester and do the route in reverse and hope for some easier riding!
If you are doing it in a day, Winchester as a start is the hardest way, as the toughest climbing is at the Eastbourne end of the ride.
Also it is virtually the same up as from Eastbourne as Winchester is in the itchen River Valley which at most drops another 5m until the sea
I live in Winchester so whenever I feel like a trip to the seaside I just hop on my bike and cycle to Eastbourne!
Ha ha, seriously I have ridden it twice once in 2 days which was a nice gentle bimble then decided to do in in one day and that really was brutal!
Both times did it on a hardtail and I would say that would be my steed of choice were I to do it again...I'm 68 so maybe I won't. It is a fab route though.
Really enjoyed this series so far - keep it up! 👍🏻🔥
Great video, thanks for sharing. Looks like a fun & challenging ride. Just one thing though : First day was 1,200m climbing, Second day was 1,390m. That makes it a total of 2,590m climbing not the 3,000m claimed.
Yup, you’re right!
Great series
Brilliant more like this please, job well done
Sophie gets the cheapest bike as last time in the Isle of Wight, come on guys be gents and let her have the bling bike next time 😋.
Steve Co she would beat us by a country mile if we gave her a better bike Steve🤣
She had the better bike imo, 650b with wide tires is the way to go.
She's a strong independent woman - she can buy her own bloody bike
@@edenbreckhouse you don’t seem to understand how product placement works
Live by the sdw but haven't done it yet. Storrington to the sdw is a beast of a climb I know. I hope you try the ndw as that isnt mentioned as much. Great vid
that was great. i ran the SDW as part of a 6 person relay a few times almost 30 years ago....and watching this made me want to go back, but even if i still lived in the UK not sure my legs are up to riding it. I've seen comments about doing it from Winchester, but i think the climbs up the escarpments are steeper in that direction (though there will probably be a tail wind)
Added to my bucket list.
Great Video, big inspiration :D
Brave to do it with so little suspension. As mentioned by others, the wind is generally west to east. A comfortable two days on a MTB. Recommend the Sportsman in Amberley .
The hover bar offers 7 times the comfort of a normal bar setup? I'd love to see how you measure comfort.... 😭😂
I believe it honestly does
Nice vid! Most people tend to ride towards Eastbourne to avoid riding into a headwind though.
Well I almost did not watch this video as the last one I watched was all whining. Enjoy yourself!! At least Sophie was not whining this time as you hotel it! Get the right gears and gear on the bike, tent, and do some real bikepacking. If you have to get off and walk so be it. Have FUN!!
enjoyed the video, thanks - but do tell just what you had in all of those packs?
Good video, but you need to do it in 1 day. I have done in twice on a bike and 3 times running in a relay
Would you choose these bikes over a mtb or emtb? I’m looking for a south downs bike and just found this video. I need advice. Where do I buy a bike? How much to spend?
Whats the program you use to make your trip interactive at min 3:31?
Appreciate this route can be done on a gravel bike, I’d always go full suss though, just too wearing on the body otherwise and I feel MTB tyres offer better protection against the ruts and pretty lethal sharp flints we have locally?
Looks great!
What was your total riding time / speed? At 100mi it looks like an ideal challenge day on the bike, but would be a properly log slog!
Thomas Watts we did it E to West in late September this year (great weather and an unusual Easterly wind). Don’t think I could have managed it (I’m 51 and on a full suss) without company of friends and 3 refuelling stops kindly provided by a friends partner. Took us around 14 hours and the end section into Winchester does go on longer than you think (by which time it was dark so no more great views). A real challenge to complete (any kind of delays or mechanicals and you are going to miss the last train back!) but one I’d highly recommend.
do some people do it the other way? seems like the norm is to start in winchester.
A couple of comments/questions. Firstly why no gloves and secondly would you really recommend gravel bikes over mountain bikes with suspension? Thanks
Is it possible to do it on Brompton? I can walk for a littel bit if necessary
Great Episode! You should try the Wessex ridgeway..
Prevailing winds!
I can't believe Boardman have stopped selling the 9.0. I hope that means there's a new one coming soon
Guys have you ever heard of the clothes brand called "Le Col"?
Yes.
No
No two descriptions of the SDW give the same amount of climbing? This video suggests around 3000m, I’ve read as much as 4000? When we did it - in one day I might add - my Garmin suggested 3800m and it certainly felt like that much.
Just realised moustaches are back in fashion!
How were the Roswheel bags? I had to double check that you guys were actually using Roswheel. Because I don't like to pay $100 USD for a top tube bag that holds a phone and one Clif Bar.
Chinese brand with an okay quality
Nice video. Are you running tubeless?
Where did you guys stay?
Open and exposed... Pray it doesn't start raining if attempting I guess. Could become a very messy affair. :).
Is this route suitable for a road bike with largish (36 mm) tyres?
did you do this? i’m going to next weekend and am terrified looking at their chain rings!
Those cannondale wheels dont have any hologram stickers #lies :P
Who is the other person
Great video but you do know that you committed a cardinal sin when you set off in Eastbourne don't you ! Yes your not allowed to cycle along that part of the promenade. How ridiculous is that when you think that the local authority would rather young children cycle in traffic than in a safe environment. I know this because I too am a keen cyclist and also live in Eastbourne. Thankfully we have a great group of cyclists that campaign as a group, Bespoke
to improve cycling facilities in the town so hopefully one day we too will be able to cycle where you have ridden without the threat of receiving a £500 fine. I always enjoy watching your videos as they are entertaining and informative.
South Downs Way GPX route please
What a shame! 3- 30 summats, gettin paid to cycle- spend 2 days, mithering about head wind and hills. (TBH the lass did'nt mither much) Not even having to camp out!
Tuned in as said bikepacking but you lost me at "staying in hotels"! Come on guys, get with the spirit ...
Kilometres?! When in (what's left of) England, imperial measurements are the only way.
Ageism?
Prefer GCN. More fun, tongue-in-cheek, and less snobby. God I hate how middle-flippin-class cycling has become. (And I'm middle class!)
Is it just me, or is James starting to resemble the tough guy meme?
When you realise The Don did it in one day
Not everyone lives in the south
Can you make your content accessible and inclusive by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning please? it is very hard to watch relying on only the dreaded auto captioning that not doesn't make it enjoyable sadly.
Fucking Zwift ads >>>
Nice video. Are you running tubeless?