Annual Events

Tour of the Isle of Wight

The Tour of the Isle of Wight is now a London Dynamo summer Sportive tradition. 

After an early morning ferry from Portsmouth, the Tour of the Isle of Wight cycling route goes anti-clockwise round the island, taking in the chain link ferry at Cowes, the steep climb up to the view point of the Needles and the fast but breezy Military Road.

After a lunch stop in Ventnor, some steep climbs are superseded by a very rolling route back to the ferry terminal. There is also an alternative option of a short cut across the island.

WARNING: there is a dangerous tight right hand corner – after the descent that is just before Shanklin (at c. 92km). Descend into that corner with care.

Recent routes
The Kentish Kraken

The Kentish Kraken winds its way across two ridges of the Downs (crossing the southern ridge four times!). Climbs include Crockham Hill, Brasted Chart (the steadier but longer north side of Toys Hill), and Ide Hill.

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The Dirty Belgie Gravel Loop

The Dirty Belgie Gravel Loop is a clockwise cycling route starting in Richmond Park that crosses Wimbledon Common, before heading uphill to the woods between Chessington and Oxshott.

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Chartwell Gravel Loop

This gravel route takes us a largely off-road route from Hampton Court Palace heading south-east out of Surrey and into Kent where it descends off the north ridge of the Downs and winds its way offroad to Churchill’s family home of Chartwell. It then heads through woods of Toys Hill before the return leg back to Surrey. 

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