I'm planning a trip to the Dales later this month and am looking for a good all day route. Something with a decent lunch stop about half way round and 6-7 hours of reasonably paced riding. Ideally something that can be ridden direct from a nice campsite (near a good pub) would be perfect but not essential.
Any suggestions? 🙂
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1101
camp here, it is lovely and contact lowey off here for the stw route from a couple of rides ago.
settle is halfwayish round.
naked man cafe there is the biz.... 8)
and do the ride anticlockwise and you finish the ride with the best descent right at the campsite...... 8) 8)
What Ton said, although I would camp at Stainforth :-
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=3034
If you have mem map I can email you the MMo file or you can find the route here :-
http://www.dave-lowe.fotopic.net/p58726633.html
there is a great bike shop in Haws called Kudu.
Went in there whilst on a weekend break and they sorted me with a few routes...even printed me some maps and a few good places to stop etc.
check them out
Thanks for the route Lowey - we had a good but very wet ride. We ended up starting and staying at the hawkswick campsite that Ton recommended. First half of the ride was great especially the descent down to Settle, the return leg wasn't bad but felt like a lot of climbing without any really fun downs.
Finished the weekend off with a trip to Guisburn on Sunday morning. The car park was very busy and the trails were in condition considering the use they must be getting judging by the traffic from here.