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Quite fancy doing the Rangers Path off Snowdon later in the year once the ban's lifted.
Any other less obvious routes in England or Wales that are more suited to bigger bikes but still require you to pedal yourself to the top?
cadair idris is very good.
did it last year with flipinheckler, we had a good day.
rossett ghyll is good, as is red pike/grey cragg/gamling end.
but then i just saw the pedal to the top bit................so ignore me...doh 😛
Carying is allowed, my favourite track ever was 'Flowtastic' with Switchbacks in Spain, basicly it's an hour of carying the bikes up from the road, up a cliff to the top of the hill!
Also did a good ride once way way back that went over Foel Fras and down Drum in North Wales, but that was on fully rigid bikes with V brakes. No idea if it'd be any good nowadays or not. Could either be dull or a blast 🙂 Carrying was involved tho.
Oh and there's more than one route off Snowdon btw.
EDIT: try some Lakes passes too. Big climbs up, some techie footpath bits down but they are of the slow difficult variety ime (which isn't very broad).
Don't wait to do Snowdon, just set off pushing before 5pm. It's v steep from start anyway so a blessing in disguise.
Easily do-able before it gets dark.
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[url= http://prettysweetmtb.blogspot.com/2010/11/escape-to-high-places.html ]The Lakes are good[/url]
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[/img][url= http://prettysweetmtb.blogspot.com/2010/06/scottish-road-trip-disaster.html ]Really good[/url]
Plus [url= http://prettysweetmtb.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-trail-wideopen-mag.html ]The Highlands[/url] look like a world of opportunity for push up/ride back down stuff
Which is the best route down Cadair? Should be easy to fit that into your average mid-Wales weekend
Dunno, I thought there was just one obvious bridleway..?
So there is. Thought there were more for some reason.
Looks fun though - I also am partial to a striaght up, straight down kind of ride.
Dollywagon/Grisedale off Hellvellyn is pretty suited to bigger bikes - if you are very fit you could probably pedal most of the way up the Glenridding/Kepple Cove path.
Ben Lomond is also very good.
Great pics btw DavidM
Aye, just the Pony Path from the South West(ish) up and down Cadair.