The Kemble Round & The White Horse Round

Amazing to see this storming attempt on the White Horse Round. But come on Global Cycling Network, give the website a link on your write-up, so we can get a few more donations coming in for Great Western Air Ambulance Charity!!

Can I Shake Off The Winter Blues With An Epic 190km Gravel Ride? Simon takes on the "White Horse Round," a brutal 190km gravel route in the southwest of England, in an attempt to set a new Fastest Known Time. Battling rele...

Gravel-riding friends - as the weather slowly improves here’s a first shout out in 2024 for two self-guided ~100 mile challenge routes in the West Country, The Kemble Round & The White Horse Round. Both are ideally suited to one or two day efforts, and all mapping and GPS routes are available for FREE! We encourage donations to Great Western Air Ambulance Charity. More on our FB Page, or at www.thekembleround.uk and www.thewhitehorseround.uk

The Kemble Round – A 100 mile gravel cycling route in the Cotswolds Route update, February 2024If you’re planning to tackle the Kemble Round in 2024 be aware there is some potential for disruption and diversions due to the construction of the new A417 ‘Missing Link’ road. More information on the Route page. The Kemble Round is a challenging 100 mile (160Km) se...

We got some nice news before Christmas - £366 raised through donations by the many intrepid riders who took on The Kemble Round, The White Horse Round, or in a few cases both in 2023. These routes have raised nearly £2000 for Great Western Air Ambulance Charity now, and I really hope they'll generate more well into the future. Thanks again to anyone who generously donated. If you haven't done these routes before, 2024 could be the time!

The Kemble Round is riding great at the moment, but if you're looking for another challenge, here's its brand new sister route, just launched: www.thewhitehorseround.uk Suggested start point is Bradford-on-Avon, and the route is almost entirely in Wiltshire, but it stretches up to (almost) Kemble, and can be tackled from there, or many other places.

Like before, GPX files, OS mapping, route variants and loads of additional info is freely available at the website. We encourage small donations to the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity.

The White Horse Round – A 105 mile gravel/MTB cycling route in Wiltshire Riding next to the Wansdyke near Milk Hill, Pewsey Downs, 68 miles into the full route The White Horse Round is a challenging 105 mile self-guided gravel/MTB cycling route for experienced cyclists. Almost entirely located in Wiltshire, Bradford-on-Avon makes an ideal start and finish point, but bec...

Well, it might have been SNOWING today here in Kemble, but the conditions for riding the Kemble Round are in general pretty good right now, and suddenly we've got loads more daylight to play with. April and May can be superb for taking on this brilliant gravel cycling challenge - GPX files, mapping and info at www.thekembleround.uk

Pretty good, fast-running, not-too-hot conditions right now for having a stab at the new 100 mile Cotswolds route The Kemble Round, or one of the shorter (80 and 60 mile) alternatives. Nettles? What nettles?... GPX, maps and more at www.thekembleround.uk

We made it!
Yesterday, June 19th, three of us made the inaugural attempt on The Kemble Round and came back smiling. It was a bit of a grey day, but the cool temperatures helped enormously with keeping hydrated. We also suffered a few 'technicals', including a stick severing a hydraulic brake line on one of our bikes about 60 miles in. But in every other respect it all went just as well as it could. Amazing landscape, the route lived up to expectations, there was a great sense of morale in the group, and our legs were working almost as well at the end as the start. A huge thanks to the brilliant support team of Jackie, Julian, Matt and Annabel, who met us at several points en route and provided food, water fill-ups and encouragement. And thank you again to all of our generous sponsors - we've raised more money for the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity than I dared hope, and I'd like to think there could be more in the future as other cyclists take up the challenge.