ladybower & cutgate is probably under an hour from you? likewise all the dark and white peak trails.
The 3 shires from matlock?
Macc Forest? Cannock if you fancy trail work?
christ there’s tons.

The Lakes 🙂

That’s assuming the Peak is ‘local’ and therefore excluded? That or North Wales.

Have you ridden around Macclesfield ?

Only an hour from Sheff, but had completely escaped my attention until I went there a few months back and was gobsmacked. Did a 38 mile loop with a hefty amount of technical singletrack.

Swaledale is lovely if you want to drive further, but I wouldn’t do it as a day trip

Snowden, though I agree with jekkyl, why go any furthe than Ladybower/Edale. Can’t be more than 30-40 minutes from the far side of sheffield, spend more time riding and less time driving, and more bale out options if the weather turns bad.

Ladybower is 15 minutes from my house, pretty sure it’s a couple of mins less for Simon so within easy reach, guess he’s looking for something different.

I’ll also have an eye on this thread as since I stopped racing DH I rarely venture far with the bike, but living where I do there’s not much motivation and I need persuading!

I drove to Reeth on Saturday from Sheffield in 2 hours easily with wife in car therefore didn’t exceed 65mph, had 5 hour hard ride, followed by tea and cakes at the Dales Bike centre. Steady drive home, was back for 6.30ish. Result, I had a great ride , herself pottered around drinking coffee, eating cakes in lovely surroundings (this is her only hobby), everybody happy.

We’re doing Snowdon instead of riding the same 10 loops round ladybower

Another vote for the dales if you do not fancy the lakes. I did a 40km ish route provided by the guy at the dales bike centre. Nice route and we only saw 2 other riders and 2 fell runners on the entire ride, interesting lunar landscape on part of it to.

(got a pint of yorskire tea in a cafe on the way round for £1.30 to)

Why spend 5 hours in the car. Just go for a 5 hour longer ride from home!

^This. My happy hunting ground. Although it may be worth staying out of Todmorden for a week or two. I can set you up with routes if required. I may be persuaded to do a bit of guiding on Sunday if necessary…

Failing that, the Dales. Can’t beat it.

Except if you go to the Lakes. Oh wait…

you need one of these

and one of these

and go for pot luck! 😀

If no one offers to show you round Hebden, use the explore option in Strava.Lots of decent bits on there(not all ) that you can link together yourself with an OS map or just follow someone else’s route by clicking on the date in any of the segment’s leaderboards.A good loop is to go up from Hebden up to the Gorple/Widdop/Hurstwood resovoirs then return along the bridleways above Tod. drop down then up and over Stoodley Pike and back down to Hebden. Too many variations to list.Lots of the Hebden honey pot descents start in and around Heptonstall as well as the Pecket Well one you mention.

Simon – a ‘mutual acquaintance’ asked me to ping you some Hebden details. So I have.

Once you’d read the mail, you have to destroy it as it contains sensitive information 😉

+1 Calderdale if you really don’t want to hit the Lakes. Lakes trumps Hebden IMO, and I live in Hebden.

Just moved to Hebden, woop! I would agree the Lakes is better (though not ridden that much here yet) but there’s possibly more trails in a smaller area here than most bits of the Lakes.

Pecket Well descent comes out a few hundred yards from my house – never had trails right from the door before. 😀