Summer Adventures…London Gravel Explorer. A 230 mile, 3 day, fully supported bike packing adventure around London.It’s cold wet and miserable outside, so the ideal time to be planning this summer’s bike packing weekend adventures exploring the very best the Home Counties have to offer.The Orbital Gravel Explorer is a 3-day off-road cycle ride orbiting London, discovering the alternative M25 of bridleways or “beyond the barriers”. Starting at the iconic Herne Hill Velodrome, the route winds it’s its way to the countryside through Epping Forest, before crossing the Hertfordshire farmland to the chalky beech woods of the Chiltern Hills. Once across the Thames, the landscape changes to open heathland and pine forests as the ride heads into the Surrey Hills and the North Downs before dropping back to join the Thames back into town.It’s a trip through London’s greenbelt, an oft-overlooked part