South Downs Way on a touring bike ??

[squeaker]

The Downs Link at that time was not very well surfaced, I hope it is better now?

Nope.


(OK, I know that the southern part is better now according to Squeaker. Everything else is still hit and miss.)

That's 'better' in a 'fat tyred' bike sort of way: still not all bikes / weather

[sbcoombs]

I've done SDW several times on a MTB. On a dry day I would say it could be done on a tourer, although I wouldn't fancy it.
In the wet I would suggest it would be dangerous. I came off several times with knobbly tyres and lacked grip in some of the hills, even with those.


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