The Smoke Ring Challenge is a gravel bike cycling event category bikepacking, ride, ultra in United Kingdom, region East of England. The edition The Smoke Ring Challenge 2023 took place on Friday 07 July 2023 with departure in Tilbury, County Essex, East of England.
The Smoke Ring Challenge is offering 1 routes (200 km) for gravel bike
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The Smoke Ring Challenge will follow ‘The Smoke Ring – An orbital route around London’, which is a long-distance off-road MTB/gravel route created and published by MTB Epics UK in 2014. You will encounter a huge array of trail gems over the 200 mile distance, taking in bridleways, byways, singletrack, woodland, heathland, purpose-built MTB trails, urban and more..
The event route starts in Essex and will orbit London in an anti-clockwise direction visiting Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent. Some of the many highlights will include Epping Forest, the Colne Valley, Berkshire/Surrey heathlands, the Surrey Hills, Box Hill and the North Downs.