Calendar events are held on a specific day. They are open to all riders; decide what is right for you and challenge your limits! Unless otherwise stated they are suitable for all types of bicycle (and variants). The event details will hold any nuggets of information such as a ‘short section of byway giving you the best views of Stonehenge‘ for you to make an informed choice.
Feb 2022
Wells, Mells & Broader! 200
Saturday 12th: 07:00 - 20:28 | iCal
Going broader afield for some more #wills_hills. A cathedral city, Stourhead Gardens, broad gauge transfer shed and an old rail trail are a few of the delights.
Whitehall Garden Centre, Norton Ln, Whitchurch, BS14 0BT
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 200
Actual: 202km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 2784m
AAA: 2.75
Bronze Grimpeur
Wells, Mells & Old Rail Trail 100
Saturday 12th: 09:00 - 17:24 | iCal
Taking in the sights south of Bristol. Expect a few #wills_hills including King Alfred’s Tower and some beautiful countryside including a lovely gradual descent on a traffic free old rail trail
Whitehall Garden Centre, Norton Ln, Whitchurch, BS14 0BT
TYPE: BP
DISTANCE:
Points: 100
Actual: 105km
Speed: 12.5-25kph
CLIMB: 1610m
AAA: 1.5
Bronze Grimpeur
Mar 2022
Bill’s Easton Connection 300
Saturday 12th: 06:00 - Sunday 13th: 02:24 | iCal
Head to the coast for the Easton connection & Portland Bill. Return along the Jurassic Coast & via Gold Hill in Shaftesbury. #wills_hills & views in good supply, 3 different railway paths included.
Felix Road Adventure Playground, Felix Road, Easton, BS5 0JW
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 300
Actual: 306km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 4950m
AAA: 5.00
Apex Grimpeur
Bill’s Easton Connection 300
Saturday 12th: 06:00 - Sunday 13th: 02:24 | iCal
Head to the coast for the Easton connection & Portland Bill. Return along the Jurassic Coast & via Gold Hill in Shaftesbury. #wills_hills & views in good supply, 3 different railway paths included.
Felix Road Adventure Playground, Felix Road, Easton, BS5 0JW
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 300
Actual: 306km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 4950m
AAA: 5.00
Apex Grimpeur
Missed Connection 160
Saturday 12th: 08:00 - 21:12 | iCal
Head to the coast… Fiddlesticks you’ve missed your connection! Head to Gold Hill in Shaftesbury before returning through Longleat Estate. #wills_hills & views, 3 different railway paths include.
Felix Road Adventure Playground, Felix Road, Easton, BS5 0JW
TYPE: BP
DISTANCE:
Points: 150
Actual: 165km
Speed: 12.5-25kph
CLIMB: 2200m
AAA: 2.00
Silver Grimpeur
Missed Connection 160
Saturday 12th: 08:00 - 21:12 | iCal
Head to the coast… Fiddlesticks you’ve missed your connection! Head to Gold Hill in Shaftesbury before returning through Longleat Estate. #wills_hills & views, 3 different railway paths include.
Felix Road Adventure Playground, Felix Road, Easton, BS5 0JW
TYPE: BP
DISTANCE:
Points: 150
Actual: 165km
Speed: 12.5-25kph
CLIMB: 2200m
AAA: 2.00
Silver Grimpeur
Apr 2022
Exe Barnstaple Branch 400
Saturday 9th: 04:00 - Sunday 10th: 08:25 | iCal
The inaugral Great Western Randonnées’ AAA 400. All aboard to Bishop’s Lydeard Station before traversing the northern coastline of Exmoor. Use the old Barnstaple branch-line and head home via The Blackdown Hills.
Benjamin Perry Scout Hut, Pheonix Wharf, Redcliffe, BS1 6SR
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 400
Actual: 407km
Speed: 14.3-30kph
CLIMB: 6698m
AAA: 6.75
Apex Grimpeur
Exe Barnstaple Branch 400
Saturday 9th: 04:00 - Sunday 10th: 08:25 | iCal
The inaugral Great Western Randonnées’ AAA 400. All aboard to Bishop’s Lydeard Station before traversing the northern coastline of Exmoor. Use the old Barnstaple branch-line and head home via The Blackdown Hills.
Benjamin Perry Scout Hut, Pheonix Wharf, Redcliffe, BS1 6SR
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 400
Actual: 407km
Speed: 14.3-30kph
CLIMB: 6698m
AAA: 6.75
Apex Grimpeur
Down & Black 200
Saturday 9th: 07:00 - 20:44 | iCal
An inaugral Great Western Randonnées’ AAA 200. All aboard to Bishop’s Lydeard Station over The Mendips & Quantocks. Head south into The Black Down Hills to Winsham Jubilee Hall before home over The Mendips once more.
Benjamin Perry Scout Hut, Pheonix Wharf, Redcliffe, BS1 6SR
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 200
Actual: 206km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 2900m
AAA: 3.00
Silver Grimpeur
Down & Black 200
Saturday 9th: 07:00 - 20:44 | iCal
An inaugral Great Western Randonnées’ AAA 200. All aboard to Bishop’s Lydeard Station over The Mendips & Quantocks. Head south into The Black Down Hills to Winsham Jubilee Hall before home with The Mendips once more.
Benjamin Perry Scout Hut, Pheonix Wharf, Redcliffe, BS1 6SR
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 200
Actual: 206km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 2900m
AAA: 3.00
Silver Grimpeur
May 2022
Devilishly Elegant 600
Saturday 7th: 06:00 - Monday 9th: 00:38 | iCal
The inaugural 600 #wills_hills fest! Journeying up through England and back through Wales. It’ll test your legs and your mental fortitude but the scenery will pay dividends. Do you accept the devilishly elegant challenge?
White Hart Inn, Station Road, Iron Acton, BS37 9UG
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 600
Actual: 609km
Speed: 14.3-25kph
CLIMB: 10139m
AAA: 10.25
Apex Grimpeur
Big Gert Brevet 1600
Sunday 22nd: 06:00 - Saturday 4th: 22:48 | iCal
PBP 2015: touring back with ACB talking about LEL the idea of Bristol Glasgow Bristol was born.
Back home I set about its backbone. Fettling ensued, then a test ride et voilà, one Big Gert Brevet!
Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5UY
TYPE: BP
DISTANCE:
Points: 0 Pointless
Actual: 1644km
Speed: 5-15kph
CLIMB: 26352m
AAA: 26.25
Apex Grimpeur
Bristol Glasgow Bristol 1600
Sunday 29th: 04:00 - Sunday 5th: 07:15 | iCal
PBP 2015: touring back with ACB talking about LEL the idea of Bristol Glasgow Bristol was born.
Back home I set about its backbone. Fettling ensued, then a test ride et voilà, one Big Gert Brevet!
Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5UY
TYPE: RM
DISTANCE:
Points: 1600
Actual: 1644km
Speed: 9.6-20kph
CLIMB: 26352m
AAA: 26.25
Apex Grimpeur
Jun 2022
Sunseekers & Moonrakers 300
Saturday 11th: 06:00 - Sunday 12th: 02:00 | iCal
For the Sunseekers! Head to the Isle of Purbeck and Lulworth Cove. Get the ferry across Poole Harbour’s mouth. Chase the afternoon sun across Cranborne Chase. As evening draws in the Moonrakers come out. Rolling with some cracking #wills_hills. Some gravel thrown in for added fun!
Warmley Station, Bristol And Bath Railway Path, Warmley, BS30 5JB
TYPE: BRM
DISTANCE:
Points: 300
Actual: 310km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 23:59m
AAA: 0.00
Rainbow Flat
A Mere Century 160
Saturday 11th: 08:00 - 21:07 | iCal
Head to Radstock and use The Colliers Way making your way through Mere to Shaftesbury & Zig-Zag Hill. Pass through Tisbury to the Wylye Valley and back to Bristol using The 2Tunnels.
Warmley Station, Bristol And Bath Railway Path, Warmley, BS30 5JB
TYPE: BP
DISTANCE:
Points: 150
Actual: 164km
Speed: 12.5-25kph
CLIMB: 2103m
AAA: 0.00
Rainbow Flat
I Rode the Road to Rode 80
Saturday 11th: 09:00 - 18:36 | iCal
Head to Radstock and use The Colliers Way to Nunney. Cut through Frome and across to Rode. Then back to Bristol using The 2Tunnels.
Warmley Station, Bristol And Bath Railway Path, Warmley, BS30 5JB
TYPE: BP
DISTANCE:
Points: 50
Actual: 80km
Speed: 8-25kph
CLIMB: 1033m
AAA: 0.00
Rainbow Flat
Jul 2022
A Bluestones’ Throw 400
Saturday 9th: 04:00 - Sunday 10th: 07:52 | iCal
Heading west into Wales and the birthplace of the Bluestones found at Stonehenge. Making use of old railway lines inc Hengoed Viaduct & NCN47; a mix of forest track and wind turbine service roads. Compliments Plains, Trains & no more Automobiles 200 the following day.
BP – Cost Cutter [Almondsbury], Gloucester Rd A38, Almondsbury, BS32 4HY
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 400
Actual: 417km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 6687m
AAA: 6.75
Apex Grimpeur
Plains, Trains & no more Automobiles 200
Sunday 10th: 08:00 - 22:04 | iCal
Salisbury Plain, steam trains, & neolithic Avebury, Woodhenge & Stonehenge. A few #wills_hills at the end for good measure! NEW route for a quieter finish.
Warmley Station, Bristol And Bath Railway Path, Warmley, BS30 5JB
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 200
Actual: 211km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 2189m
AAA: 0.00
Rainbow Flat
Aug 2022
The Giant’s Tooth 500
Friday 26th: 21:00 - Sunday 28th: 08:50 | iCal
Head to the Welsh coast & Llangrannog; home of the Bica the Giant’s tooth! Fast valleys, remote Welsh mountains, old mining towns; it’s all there! Descend the Devil’s Staircase and climb his Elbow #wills_hills galore!
Felix Road Adventure Playground, Felix Road, Easton, BS5 0JW
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 500
Actual: 512km
Speed: 14.3-25kph
CLIMB: 8133m
AAA: 8.25
Apex Grimpeur
Nov 2022
Moonrakers & Sunseekers 300
Friday 11th: 22:00 - Saturday 12th: 18:32 | iCal
Moonrakers become Sunseekers! Ride through the night under a full moon to the coast. Return via a few Dorset hills passing Glastonbury Tor, use the Strawberry Line to Bristol.
Felix Road Adventure Playground, Felix Road, Easton, BS5 0JW
TYPE: BR
DISTANCE:
Points: 300
Actual: 308km
Speed: 15-30kph
CLIMB: 2295m
AAA: 0.00
Rainbow Flat