Going to be around Wardlow in a few weeks. Can anyone recommend a decent ride around 20 miles? The more technical the better! Have been around Hope and Ladybower a fair bit and fancy something different without having to drive ideally.
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Good ride around Wardlow in the Peaks?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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There's some nice trails around Great Longstone, Calver, Curbar. One of my fave (White) Peak District rides starts in Great Longstone, climbing up onto Longstone Edge, up and over into Eyam then some great woodland trails down into Calver etc etc. If you can afford it, the Vertebrate Graphics White Peak guide book has this route and many more in the area.
There's a particularly loose and rocky descent that drops into Rowland from here that can shake your fillings out...
...EDIT...and plenty of trails to get you to and from it that can be made as long or short as you like. For a good long ride it's worth heading over to Chatsworth which can be done with relatively minimal road work
Posted 2 years ago # -
Thank you Sir!
I'll check that book out.
Anyone else with a recommendation?
Posted 2 years ago # -
no probs. Quite tempted to get that way again soon. Not too many places for snow or mud to form either. There's even a "Jacob's Ladder" dropping down from the Woods to Stoney Middleton. Can get very rutted and both me and my mate have come a cropper there in a true "tie-fighter and death star trench" stylee
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Sent e-mail with route around Wardlow
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The Three Stags in Wardlow Mires is a contender for my best pub experience ever. Great home cooked food too.
Proper Beer, great folk music.
Just don't ask for a lager!Posted 2 years ago #
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