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Contains 21 routes, thoroughly researched with clear easy to follow The book's rrp is £14.95
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Suitable for all levels of mountain bikers.

See below for a map of route locations and a summary of the routes.
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In the guide each route includes a map with the route highlighted and clear text directions.

Summary of the routes:

CLASSIC ROUTES
Route 1: Danby & Pannierman's Causeway
Route Grade: Easy. Distance: 17.4km
A Predominantly off-road, this bike route offers a variety of track riding, most of
which is easy to follow, making it easy to enjoy the views across to Fryup and Danby
Dale from the bridleway above Castleton Pits.

Route 2: Pinchinthorpe
Route Grade: Easy-Medium. Distance: 14.3km
A mix of forest trails and typical moors tracks, this is an ideal mountain bike route if
you don’t have much time, or for after a shift at work. The section down to
Roseberry Common is technical, and is something of a white knuckle ride if you’re
not a downhill-lemming.

Route 3: Swainby & Sheep Wash Loops

Route Grade: Easy. Distance: 18.5km (made up of two loops of 10.5km and
7.5km)
This versatile bike route can be ridden as one larger figure-of-eight, or as two shorter loops. The scenery is magnificent
and the riding easy.

EPIC ROUTES
Route 4: Roxby Circuit
Route Grade: Easy. Distance: 20.6km
After the first and only real climb, up Lealholm Bank, we are rewarded with stunning
views up the valley and a cracking mile of fast singletrack back over Roxby Moor.

Route 5: Kildale Ring

Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 21.7km
The peaceful remoteness at the head of Baysdale and the packhorse bridge over Hograh
Beck are most enjoyable, while the singletracks over Hograh Moor and Kildale Moor will
test your technical skills.

Route 6: Horcum Loop

Route Grade: Easy. Distance 27km
This is a fairly easy bike ride with an 8km blast down through Langdale Forest. The ride
along the edge of Saltergate Bank has terrific views and there is some nice singletrack
to test a beginner’s skills.

Route 7: Danby & Glaisdale Circuit

Route Grade: medium. Distance: 27km
This bike route epitomises all the North York Moors have to offer: there are fast gravel
tracks, technical climbs and descents, leg-burning road climbs and brake-burning
descents; there’s a ford to cool you down and long hills to heat you up, with a high
viewpoint at the end to survey the whole route!.

Route 8: Hutton-le-Hole & Farndale

Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 26.6km
We start from one of the most picturesque villages on the moors and take in a delightful singletrack descent into
Farndale with an easy tarmac finish on country lanes.

Route 9: Sneck Yate Bank

Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 22.5km
This is one for riders of all abilities, and includes a number of possible ‘bail out’ opportunities. Once the initial road
work is over it’s nearly all off-road with singletracks, forest roads, firm moor riding and one of the top ten downhills on
the moors.

Route 10: Clay Bank & Bransdale

Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 28.5km
A bike route with mostly firm, doubletrack riding, finishing with 3km of classic
singletrack. Bransdale must be one of the quietest dales on the moors. The scenery

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is stunning and the ride into the dale from Rudland Rigg is long, fast and easy.

ENDURO ROUTES
Route 11: Rosedale Abbey Circuit
Route Grade: Medium. Distance 25.3km
A Taking in one of the most talked about singletracks in the country (this is the
singletrack that so many good things have been written about), this ride offers a
mix of moors trail riding, shoulder height bracken and forest track.

Route 12: Blakey Bank Circuit

Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 33.5km .
The start spoils you with two short sections of sweet singletrack and then a
sweeping singletrack downhill into Westerdale. The rest of the route is a mixture of
hard work on short but steep climbs and fantastic moors scenery, culminating in the
gruelling climb out of Farndale up Blakey Bank.

Route 3: Black Hambleton & Hawnby

Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 30.6km.
This superb route follows some well known
moorland tracks, particularly the Drover’s Road,
with its panoramic views to the west. To mix things up, there is also a little-known
moorland singletrack sweeping down from Cock Howe with a few hidden ‘surprise’
drop-offs. More singletrack on Locker Low Moor helps keep tired legs going to the
finish.

Route 14: Hutton-le-Hole, Farndale & Rosedale

Route Grade: Hard. Distance: 34.4km.
This mountain bike route is an alternative longer version of the Hutton-le-Hole &
Farndale (in the Epics section), with some steady riding after a hard climb out of
Farndale to Blakey Ridge.

Route 15: Rosedale & Fryup

Route Grade: Hard. Distance: 34.4km.
Get ready for one of the best singletracks on the moors, followed by one of the most
technical, demanding downhills. When that’s all over, we can catch our breath in a
tranquil setting with stunning scenery all around.

Route 16: Ravenscar – Big Country

Route Grade: Medium-Hard. Distance: 36.7km.
Be ready for a pure cross-country route, with little in the way of white-knuckle
downhills but instead a good mix of terrain and jaw dropping scenery to keep it
interesting.

Route 17: Goathland Circuit

Route Grade: Medium-Hard. Distance: 36.7km.
This is a classic cross country moors route with plenty of typical moors track and some lovely singletrack riding. Best
tackled during dry weather!

Route 18: Helmsley Circuit

Route Grade: Medium-Hard. Distance: 38km.
Unique within this guide, this is a 38km ride within the National Park, yet which does not cross any moorland. This route
makes a pleasant change from the heather and bracken but with over 900m of ascent it is still a tough cookie. The grand
finale is a rewarding 6km dash on forest trails down Riccal Dale, with beautiful views over into Bilsdale and across the
moors to the north east.

KILLER ROUTES
Route 19: The Seven Dales
Route Grade: Hard. Distance: 61.5km
A testing ride based around seven valleys to the north of the moors, this route
combines sections from others in the book, but also throws in a few stretches of off-
road riding that have had little coverage in other guides.

Route 20: The Best Western

Grade: Hard. Distance: 77km
A 77km ride, 87% of which is off-road, and with over 2000m of ascent this route really
is a killer. There is over 10km of singletrack, plus long descents and some particularly
tricky downhills.

BONUS SECTION
Route 21: Pickering–Levisham Station/Goathland
Route Grade: Easy-Medium. Distance: 10.3km / 21.8km
Making use of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to give a one-way ride, this is easy
mountain biking for a hot summer’s day. Ride through fields above the preserved steam
railway of the NYMR with an unexpected technical descent just above Levisham, before
taking a steam train back to Pickering. Alternatively, continue off-road to Goathland

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and pick up the train there.

Bomus 1: Dalby Forest - Trail Centre

General facts & figures about England’s largest mountain bike trail centre (there’s something here for all riders).

Bomus 2: Guisborough - Trail Centre

General facts & figures about Guisborough Mountain Bike Centre

Plus also includes lists of:

Top Ten Singletracks &
Top Ten Downhills.

and information on the Moors to Sea Cycle Network

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