Simple question, simple answer?
Where is it, looking for reasonably direct rather than best possible singletrack?
IIRC there's an old railway path that does most of the job, but it was 20 years ago when I rode it so am sure one of the locals will be along shortly to fill in the details.
Best bet is probably ride Glentress to Deliverance on the black route, and drop down onto a walker's path at the lowest point. This takes you through a farm and about fifteen gates before you get to the main road. Follow this back towards Cardrona, then you can get on the back road to Innerleithen (it's very quiet).
I've ridden Innerleithen to peebles on the SUW and down via Gypsy's glen. Great ride.
It does look like you can ride the whole way along the tweed, as above said on the old railway line.
Just going by the OS Map
You can for so far then you hit the river. There is a plan to reinstate the bridge but not sure when funding will be available.
Gypsy Glen would be a bit of an extreme route!:-)
What Alasdair Mc said (There is another way but i'd have to kill you :-))
I'm trying to get together a Kielder 100 training route with minimal navigation (hence trail center) so you could tell me the route because I think I'll be dead in September anyway. 😆
There is yet another way which i can tell you but haven't done it - black to mast then turn left straight after onto a fireroad then first right and follow track all the way - takes you out onto the Granites (However the farmer at the bottom isn't keen )
Oh Diane! you tease!
Follow the fence line of the boundary trail and see where that goes. 😉
from the mast/boundary trail head NE down to Leithen Water and follow the valley out to the wee road and into Innerleithen.
[TANNOY] Hels to the forum please [TANNOY]
There is one and I think she knows it. I don't but I know it exists.
Sustrans are putting in a path from Peebles to GT and I think on to Innerleithen. It will b an A to B path for leisure cyclists, not an exciting trail. Dunno if thats what you were after though.
Hels doesn't know it 🙂 well not when we tried last time!
The path marked on teh map from GT to cardrona is cycleable - and there is a bridge at cardrona - then the back road to innerleithan is about as good as it gets I think. Keeps you off the main road anyway
As above, thats what I do anyway.
Anything else I have looked at takes far too long
Depends on whether you want to do all of GT first or are willin to bail before some of eth good stuff.
Oh yes of course there is another way.
When you have finished all your riding at Gt go out of the entrance - turn left onto main road then just opposite the Glentress Hotel is a track - go down there follow it round - through 2 gates will eventually lead you to Cardrona turn right to take you onto back road (Quiet) to Inners.
Follow this back towards Cardrona, then you can get on the back road to Innerleithen (it's very quiet).
then the back road to innerleithan is about as good as it gets I think
will eventually lead you to Cardrona turn right to take you onto back road (Quiet) to Inners
Just so's you folks know (in case you didn't), you can extend the off-road into Innerleithen. When you get to Cardrona, turn right onto the main Peebles-Innerleithen road (yes I know it can be busy) and follow it for 5-10mins through the twisty narrow bit and then on a big left-hand corner, you can cross over and drop back down to the old railway again and follow that into Innerleithen. Its a nice track, although you do have to ride the main road for a wee bit to get there.
Cheers people. Need to have a look at some of this on an OS map and googe eart at home but it does appear I'll be able to do something other than the A72 which is what I was after. A few miles of road will not be a problem.
Here I am Andy - sorry didn't see you at SXC K'tree, Van problems long story.
Aye, me and Oo-er walked a route when we were bored during the snow from Lee Pen above Inners, that pops you down at Scary Slow corner on the road just after the long straight at Cardrona on the A72, that has some scope to link Innerleithen and Glentress coming in the other way via the Estate up there. I reckon you must be able to get to it via the bottom of Deliverance as somebody said.
We managed to follow all the way back to Innerleithen along the river, but had to make a dodgy shortcut via somebody's garden which is OKish on foot but I wouldn't do it en velo.
Its a work in progress...
If you want some serious training round there without too much navigation, try the section of the Southern Upland Way between Traquair and the Tweed Valley. Rode it east to west in the mid-90s on a day it was frozen. Amazing fun from what I recall.