request to the singletrack brain to help me find a route for tonight.

I’m finishing up in Manchester tonight at 5pm and will be heading over to leeds. I have my bike packed and ready to go so looking for any thoughts on somewhere I can stop enroute.

Can be XC or a little bit tech, but preferably easy to find and not get too lost – and as I don;t have my lights on me would need to be fairly short 10-15 miler I think. I have a mapping thing I can download a gpx too.

Any thoughts team?

Stop off in Hebden Bridge. Plenty to play on.

sounds good thanks

Or have a look around Ripponden (exit 22)
Park near the church and head up the hill to Norland, there are a few good descents around there esp in front of the Sportsman pub!
Then climb back over Norland and search out Calderdale Way, its a fast descent, (just be polite and push past the house near the bottom) then head along the old railway back to Ripp.
Hebden is good but hard to find stuff without a GPX/ Local Knowledge
EDIT
If you are on Strava send me an email. I did a good route around Nrland last week

Blackstone Edge would be ideal as well. Starting off at Holingworth Lake, and taking in Mordor. Its just off the M62

another big Hebden Bridge fan here.
This one’s basically a couple of loops from the Stubbing Wharf in HB:
https://www.strava.com/activities/498739785
Just do the Southern loop if you’re short on time. (NB all cheeky)

I didnt realise you could show a ride with Strava!!
Thanks Ecky Thump

This is the ride I mentioned above
https://www.strava.com/activities/673699411

fairly short 10-15 miler

Depending on how fit you are, this probably won’t be or feel like such a short ride around Hebden Bridge 😀

theirs plenty to chose rochdale, hebden, sowerby, mirfield,

a good intro ride could be this,

Riding In Calderdale

For an “easy” option that doesn’t require any local knowledge and is pretty easy to navigate, you could do worse than the Diggle Jiggle.
http://cycling.tfgm.com/Pages/maps/Diggle-Jiggle.pdf
I’d probably start it somewhere at the southern end of the loop, mostly because that’s pretty much where I live. It was all running fast last night.