London to Oxford

Hey all,

i am planning a Staines to Oxford ride on this Thursday. Does anyone of you have experience with this route (Windsor-Wargrave-Reading-Oxford). I have bought the following material to read:

but found both not too helpful. The first is a thin book published in 2000, with detailed directions (i.e take a L here a R here..) but the maps are pretty poor. I reason that having to refer to the directions all the time will be annoying and i dont have a handlebar bag that would allow easy reading whilst riding. The second is more of a map, but again i found it pretty undetailed i.e. if there are no signs in the way we will constantly need to ask and guess and generally waste lots of time.

Do any of you have a route that has a bit more detail to provide or experience. I reckon the ideal would be a google-maps style map with route to browse and load onto a phone maps application. probably nothing like that around---would i make one ---dont know, i guess it could be helpful in the future. Anyway if you guys have any advice or experience or magically can tell me the temperature and general weather conditions for thursday it woudl be great.
I'll stop now..

Write down a rough turn-by-turn route on piece of paper in your pocket (like Google map directions list). Get map out only when needed.

GPS?

Corrine from Bike Whisperer suggested this site to me.
Try this for plotting courses, it spits out routes in detailed OS maps..
http://www.bikehike.co.uk/

I rode Oxford- London via that route.
Got lost.

Its not that fun.

Did it again with some mates- stopped at loads of ace pubs.
Got Lost.
pretty obvious the second time. much more fun.
so I know it, but don't if you catch my drift.
From memory it goes:
Staines- through Shithole- through barracks town- through Windsor- through quaint village- Past Eton- River- Pub- River- Henley- Quaint pub- Wallingford- Oxford.

after several hours with ma mate the website hippy suggested is excellent.
cant understand why i hadnt seen it before...
the route:

[www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=23130](http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=23130)

do any of you have a experience with loading any of the following onto a garmin or onto a crappy windows phone?

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