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As title really, can probably link a few rides up that I know to do it but looking for maybe a bit of inspiration from others.
Working towards an alpine race next year and trying to find out how realistic it actually is!!
Head a bit further north, and do the Lakeland 200 over 2 days?. I'm sure that'd be in your climbing target too.
Hope to Langset over Cut Gate and back then over to Hayfield and back over Jacobs with all the big bumps in between , 60 miles 2600+m
I missed a couple of climbs off that should have made it around 3000m
it was hell !
I have a gps file if needed
[url= http://www.outdoorsgps.com/route/show/302470_lord-of-the-loops-fairholmes-hayfield-castleton-peak-district ]lord of the loops[/url]
Never done it myself but a group from work did it as a race back in July
Like any route in the Peaks you will end up doing lots of road miles.
Id be heading to the lakes
Like any route in the Peaks you will end up doing lots of road miles.
If you ride a loop over Cut Gate then back over the Roych etc you can pretty much stay off road for virtually the entire route bar a haul up from Dunford Bridge and the section between Glossop and the top of Chunal, though you can dodge that if you know what you're doing. You could lengthen it even further by cutting over onto the Holmfirth side then dropping to Marsden, climbing out and picking up the Pennine Bridleway back over to Tintwistle, but it helps if you know where you're going.
Fwiw, if you're riding away from the Sheffiield side of things and riding lots of road on the mtb, then you're choosing your routes badly.
If you link the good stuff south of Ladybower eg around Edale/Hope with Doctor's Gate to Glossop and then the Trans Pennine BW east until you reach Langsett and can head back over Cut Gate. Plenty of variations and it can be ridden either way by heading south from Glossop to Hayfield if you don't want to do the Snake Pass road climb. Easy to make 100km or more. Give me a shout if you want a GPX of one of the variations.
[url= http://www.peakhorsepower.co.uk/#/kinder-loop/4564966794 ]Kinder Loop[/url]?
Like any route in the Peaks you will end up doing lots of road miles.
if you're riding away from the Sheffiield side of things and riding lots of road on the mtb, then you're choosing your routes badly.
Remember that for those brought up on a diet of trail centres, even 10% on the road is "a lot of road" 😉
My very first MTB guide book for the Peak District actually stated how many miles were on road for each and every ride.
Remember that for those brought up on a diet of trail centres, even 10% on the road is "a lot of road"
I lived on the edge of Sheffield for 2 years, and I didnt like the riding. OK there was some nice stuff in the Peaks, but they were all linked by dodgy road sections (as a newbie I didnt know cheeky stuff, and you got the impression in the Peaks it was a big no)
Back up north abit now above Bradford on t'moors and ride form my door and never really ride on roads for more than 2-300 yds at most.
I did a 3000+ meter ride in 50ish miles a few months back. Its easily doable if you link together Goyt Valley, Hayfield, Chinley, Macc Forest, Edale etc etc.
EDIT - it was actually closer to 2,600m in 54 miles. I headed back home then but my friend stayed out for an extra 15 miles or so and did over 3,100m
Thanks guys a bit more to go at there. Lakes routes good I love riding up there when I have a couple of days but I'm very limited on time at the moment and my current normal peak ride starts in the White peak which is under an hour and a half from my front door. No way I could get to the lakes, ride and get back within my small Sunday window! Up to 70k with 2500m of climbing out of darley dale but wanted something a bit different.
Oh, and nothing wrong with a bit of linking up road riding. Road, track, epic descent, vertical climb - it's all riding a bike! (Apart from that doctors gate down to glossop bit.... I've ridden that once - well, not so much ridden as walked down, rode easy bits, fell off a lot, tried to work out how on earth you could ride some of it and then had to slog up snake pass stinking of the bog I'd fallen into multiple times. I was told it was one of the best descents in the peak....!)
Might be repeats here, but starting in Marsden, head NW to Buckstones, back along Pennine Way, cross the A62, continue on Pennine Way up to A635, turn right, descend on road towards Greenfield, turn left towards DoveStones, climb to top, turn right on Pennine way, hike a bike down to Woodhead Pass road, cross over onto Trans Pennine Trail, head to Langsett, take trails up over Cut Gate, down to LadyBower, over trails to Hope, Edale, Hayfield, then back East via Roych, up RushUp, Mam Tor, Winn Hill, Hathersage, up to Burbage Edge.....dunno, I'm just making this up...never done it all in one go, but would love to try !!
Funkydunc. That was a wasted two years.
Cheeky isnt a big no no you just have to be polite and ride off peak. Depends what you like really- alot of moorland is a big turn off for me.
I have done that Lord of the loops from the vertebrate book, 4000m of climbing on 110km it's hard. You need a lot of daylight though unless stupid fit or willing to go with lights.
Sprocker,
Looking at doing that as a two day route with a hostel in the middle, would you recommend it?
Looks like you could make 2 decent days out of it if enjoying the riding rather than bollocking it round.
There are better route choices if splitting into 2 just on the basis you do a long slog from Langley to glossop and then a fair bit of uninteresting stuff over to hayfield, I would stretch it out a bit over 2 days and fit a bit more decent stuff in. Drop me an email if you do not know the area to well and I can cobble something together for you
Should say Langsett not Langley