Leave your car near the start. Ride to Wharfe then up Crummockdale and nearly all the way along Long Lane to near South House Farm. Then you can watch the riders as they come up from the road, when they will have only done a few hundred metres from the neutralized zone. You will have needed to set off from the start a good hour or so before they do. Then wehn they have passed you, ride down and across the road on on the new Pennine Bridleway. It’s not marked on the maps but is well signed on the ground. You can as it comes out on the minor road you have two choices. You can turn left up to Old Ing ride up to the woods (the last 500m is not a right of way but is a forrest road and well used) and double back down over birkwith Moor to Horton. That will all take you about 45mins from South House so you will have time to ride up the Pennine Way track (signed ‘Foxup) before the winning riders catch you up, and watch them all at some point up there. Alternativly from the Pennine Bridleway turn right (ie not go to old ing) the road goes straight into Horton. Ride on the road 3Km past Horton and turn left at Helwith Bridge up Long Lane byway (a different Long La!) to Dale Head. From there it is only a 20min hike-a-bike to the summit of Penyghent. It is only a footpath so you would need to hike it anyway (aahhemmm).
It’s all very easy to follow on an OS map.
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