Product Description

This is a compact guide to the southern half of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, an area which offers a superb network of bridleways, usable year-round, and awesome scenery rising above 700m. Mountain biking heaven on excellent trails weaving through a landscape of limestone plateaux, open moorland and clumps of broad leaf woodland. This work features 23 routes of varying difficulty and length, 'top ten' climbs, descents and cruises and visitor information. The routes were compiled and written by a highly experienced (and local) guidebook writer, plotted on Harvey Map's cycling-specific maps and illustrated with colour photography from Andy Heading.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42816 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 210 pages

Customer Reviews

Great routes well presented
This is a great area to mountain bike in and a really good book with some superb routes.They are carefully structured and clearly divided into rides of roughly equivalent duration.Instructions and descriptions are accurate and clear and each route has its own Havey's map and a useful diargam showing ascent and descent over the course of the ride.Photographs are excellent throughout and provide real encouragement to get out in the Dales.
The book has recently been published and feels modern in every respect.I have been using much older book,covering the Lake District and the Dales together which really suffers from being nearly 20 years out of date.Equipment and riding surface has changed a lot in that time.You really feel that the author has ridden all these routes recently and thought carefully about what to include, and equally importantly,what to leave out.Although the book appears expensive it is fair value when you at the information provided and the fact that the maps are detailed and not just schematic diagrams.

A Must Have For Bikers
This book is great

It starts off with a bit about biking and then some basic info about biking in he Dales (Maps needed etc)

The routes are divided up into 4 Sections with a 5th bonus section

Section 1 - Classics
Section 2 - Epics
Section 3 - Enduros
Section 4 - Killers

All routes are niceley laid out with Elevation data, total ascent, start / finish info. Pubs in the area and cafes. I have done most of the routes in the book and many more than once. A great must have for all MTBRS

Great guide to a beautiful area
While I'd already done quite a bit of riding in the area this book revealed some great new gems. The maps are clear and the instructions come in at just the right level of detail, enough to get you round but not so much you spend hours reading through to figure out where you've got to.

As an added bonus it also turned out to be pretty water resistant, very handy when lost in the rain after not following (the admittedly clear) instructions very well.