[Closed] Most accessible mountain summit, with a bike.

with a bike or, using bike?

snowdown train?

using a heavy electric bike.

Mt Keen you could almost make it up with a car ( I think? )

Whack your bike in the frontera and head up snowdon, easy!

Helvellyn

Is it Cross Fell or one of it's neighbours with big aerials and stuff on it, decent access road you could use. Got it now, Great Dun Fell. Big radar domes on the summit.

They got a model t up Ben Nevis.

The one on the left at the Glen Shee ski slopes?

+1 for Mt Keen - not certain it's electric bikeable. There is lots of low level wildernessy scenic riding around Aviemore, Rothiemurchus that would be elecric bikeable.

Ton, Mount Keen, via Victoria Well and the house of Mark. 4WD track a good amount of the way with some steep bits, then well made path for the remainder. Electric wheelie over the water bars and a short, flattish stagger to the summit....

Skiddaw?

Seen people getting ferried up there on a small motorised buggy

cheers for the idea's all.

Mullach Clach a'Bhlair might be a possibility. I don't know how well the leccy bike handles climbs but the landy track that folk use for the Carn Ban Mor ascent carries on almost to the summit.

Carn a'Chlamain might be a possibility.

Some of the Glen Shee hills, or even something at the Lecht?

Morrone/Morven near Braemar.

Ben Rinnes

Corryhabbie Hill

(all just suggestions - need some confirmation 🙂 )

There will be lots of lesser summits in places like the Lammermuirs. What are your minimum qualifying criteria?

Gisburn is easy if you should so would wish to park at the highest point of this remarkable place.

Cadair wouldn't be bad Tony ... well all except the last 100 yards.

Morrone/Morven near Braemar.

And a nice ride in to Glen Derry to make more of a weekend/day of it...

Great Dun Fell - tarmac all the way to the top and stunning views.

If you want other long ish wild trips on rough tarmac - Newbiggin (Upper Teesdale) to Westgate (Weardale).

Garrigill to Moorhouse - gets you to around 600m. Wild but valley bottom.

Waskerly Way in Weardale - moor top riding.

Sorry Ton, other than Hora's post elsewhere saying you cant ride a bike at the moment I dont know how much riding you can or cant do. If you can do a bit and havent thought of this - how about the C2C?

IIRC the definition of "Mountain" in the UK is land over 600 metres. 🙂

no specific criteria really, just has to be a half decent track up, cos i will need to stay on the bike.
i cant carry or push uphill, but a nice rocky downhill would be ace.

keep the idea's coming and a plan will be hatched, and if anyone fancy lending a helping hand, just incase i cant ride all the way up, you are more than welcome to join me for the day.

I can foresee a "Ton to the Top" weekend coming up 🙂

i do hope so mate, it would be fantastic... 8)

Surely some sort of folding/disassembled bike on the Snowdon mountain railway. And then spanners and fun back down.

The Cairnwell has a chairlift to the top and what they describe as a DH track back down.

Glas Tulaichean

I thought about that one but can't quite recall the initial bit of the climb from the end of the old railway line.

I'm sure one of the guys that I ride with now and again was allowed to take his bike on the railway up snowdon as he wasnt going to be able to walk it (ankle problems)

Another from the radar dome list - not been up either but there is a road to the top - Lowther Hill and Green Lowther just south of Wanlockhead. Handy for the M74.

I was up Glas Tulaichen on foot last weekend. The initial climb after the end of the railway line is fairly steep but its all on good track. Levels off onto a gentle uphill after that with a short steeper bit just before the summit.

My memory is better than I thought then. Must be 15-20 years since I was up there.

IoM. Hundreds of bikes up the mountain each week.

Even a special heavy electric class too!!

Hello

Ok. Here goes.

Carn a Chlamain is pretty steep and loose in places. It's a Land Rover track up but a couple of sections are steep. Descent would be either the same as the way up or the tech drovers path.

It's not a summit but the climb up the Burma Road in Aviemore is steady away with a lovely singletrack descent off it back into Alcie Estate.

Carn Ban Mor is good but has a couple if stream crossings to get to the start.

Glas Tulachan is a track to the summit but again has stream crossings.

Morrone by Braemar is a really good call.

Helvellyn involves a carry at the top.

I suspect that if you have helpers, things will become more manageable.

fantastic response everyone, looks like i could be having a weeks road trip round scotland, doing some peak bagging.

been up carn ban mor in the past, also been up helvellyn, but i am prepared to give some of the others a go.
got a new electric bike coming, which will be a lot more offroad capable than my kalkhoff.
i know its cheating, but better than nothing..... 8)

A weekend in Braemar would be a possibility. There's the Morrone route, a nice bit of track into Glen Derry and another one into and around Loch Muick.

I guess you'd have to make sure you could recharge it between rides? What is the capacity/duration like?

the range is 25 miles, but it has a load more torque than the kalkhoff, which has a range of of over 100k.
i managed a 55 mile ride on the kalkhoff, but i thought 25 miles offroad would have to be suffice.
non of the electric bike makers do a bike that gives a long range and a lot of torque, it is one or the other.

I'd 2nd Sanny's Burma road one - fireroad all the way up (they filmed some of Monarch of the Glen at the top - wedding scene) and then miles and miles of fun to Carrbridge - one of my fave rides

I take it that's 25 miles of reasonable power output, so maybe less up a big hill but you'd not need it on the descent? That would leave quite a few options!

Another one for the melting pot - Ben Wyvis. Anyone care to comment?

ton - a bit closer to home for you is The Calf in the Howgills. Bridleways approach from the north but might need a little pushing/help (e.g. cheeky ridge line track above Bowderdale) then a great downhill to Sedbergh via the SW to Arant Haw and Winder down to tea. cake and real ale!!
Maybe use it as a test for the bigger hills further north??

To Peaks experts

Clough farm to the Roman road at Hope cross.

Roman Road then cheeky detour up win hill?

Last Sunday I biked to the summit of Carn na Caim (munro above Dalwhinnie). There's a LRT up to the moorland plateau which is as steep in places as the Glas Tulaichean track and made up of large, loose pieces of shale - but ridable. The track across the plateau should have been a bog but was equally very ridable in the current freakily dry conditions. There was about a twenty metre wide section where the perma-bog had formed a little creek that needs a carry but that was it.

There was a similar section on it's neighbouring munro (on same plateau) but again the rest was ridable.

Beinn Dearg from Blair Atholl might be another possibility. I'll let you know after this Sunday.

Beinn Dearg would require a short push of about 100 metres where you leave the doubletrack to get onto the walkers path up. You can return via the Land Rover track as a circuit going clockwise on a track that isn't on older os maps but does exist which takes you into Glen Tilt at the shooting range. We rode it and Carn a Chlamain as a day ride in Nov. Smashing day out and Dearg us not as rocky at the top as the map would have you expect.

Kunstler

Any pics from carn na caim?

Cheers

Sanny

High Street in the Lakes has a Roman road right along the top, it's excellent for riding.

Skiddaw.

Mt Keen - okay until the last few hundred feet, when you'll have to walk.

Most of the Carneddau.

What bike do you have coming Ton? I thought of you the other day when I was browsing some old Interbike/Eurobike footage and came across an electric powered Solid Blade - not sure if it would be what you're looking for but it looked fantastic.