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As per title really. I'm planning on taking a mate on his first overnighter in summer. Thinking two 30 mile ish days, preferably a loop with a B&B or hostel in the middle.
Any suggestions?
Dales Bike Centre for your overnight. Easy to construct a great point to point or out and back using that.
Also Boggle Hole YHA is a good place to stay. You have to cross the beach or a narrow footbridge at high tide to get in.
Either ride to it from further West or from Thornton Le Dale ish up through Dalby and out the top at Fylingdales and back a different route.
Also see Moors to Sea routes on the National Park website for possible route ideas.
Sorry don't know the Dales so well but rides I've done in Swaledale and Wensleydale were great too.
Ooh Boggle Hole, I do like that idea. Always fancied staying there. I'd considered the Dales Bike Centre too, done quite a few good rides from there. Good pub too.
Yorkshire Cycle Hub, Great Fryup Dale, in the middle of the North York Moors have bunk rooms & a camping pod to hire.
Not the same area, but years ago we did a 90 mile round loop in the Peaks called Lord of the Loops. We used Edale campsite as a base, was a really nice route.
I did think about the Peaks, I could quite easily put something together I reckon but I know most of the trails round there (certainly the Dark Peak) pretty well so something new would be nice.
Bike hub is a good shout though. There's a good YHA at Osmotherley too, that might work as a midpoint.
I know Swaledale pretty well, but was struggling to put together a mega loop in my head of the size you're after, you'd have to add in a few other valleys eg Wenslydale etc.
I did wonder that Dales wise, I've ridden a fair bit around Swaledale, the bits I've done in other areas have been less inspiring, terrain wise at least. I think a Moors ride can probably have a better spread of singletrack.
I did the Moors and Shores CX thing a few years back which was just shy of 60 miles from Dalby up towards Whitby, down to Scarbados and back to Dalby.
Thought at the time that it would be a good 2 day route. I think halfway point fell around Robin Hoods Bay so Boggle Hole is only a few miles further.
I did wonder that Dales wise, I’ve ridden a fair bit around Swaledale, the bits I’ve done in other areas have been less inspiring, terrain wise at least.
Yep, I did a load of stuff in other Dales based on the Vertebrate book IIRC and it was pretty meh - certainly not been back to a lot of it. Under the Arches was the only route I've done a few times. However, owning a cottage in Muker does mean I just tend to ride in Swaledale when I'm up there. IIRC Under the arches has a particularly brutal road climb out of Dent Dale, which was fun on a single speed!
That climb out of Dent Dale sounds familiar - I definitely remember doing a horrible climb under a viaduct on the Coast to Coast a few years back.
Theres actually shedloads of singletrack in Swaledale - its just very little is marked on maps, unless you know where youre looking, its easily missed - those Vertebrate books are pretty useless anyway.
I'm doing Dalby to Whitby in June, Boggle Hole wasn't available but a private on-suite was only £40 at YHA Whitby.
This is my standard Swaledale loop.
Although they spoiled the downhill from Crackpot Hall by adding three gates a few years back (which I'm pretty sure they added just to stop MTBs carrying too much speed as its a popular walkers path).
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