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CLASSICS |
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Danby & Pannierman's Causeway
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 Grade: Easy. Distance: 17.4km
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Pinchinthorpe
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 Grade: Easy-Medium. Distance: 14.3km |
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Swainby & Sheep Wash Loops
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.
Route Grade: Easy. Distance: 18.5km (made up of two loops of 10.5km and 7.5km) |
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EPICS |
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Roxby Circuit
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 Grade: Easy. Distance: 20.6km |
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Kildale Ring
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 Grade: Medium. Distance: 21.7km |
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Horcum Loop
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 Grade: Easy. Distance 27km |
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Danby & Glaisdale Circuit
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 Grade: medium. Distance: 27km |
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Hutton-le-Hole & Farndale
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 Grade: Medium. Distance: 26.6km |
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Sneck Yate Bank
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 Grade: Medium. Distance: 22.5km |
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Clay Bank & Bransdale
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 is stunning and the ride into the dale from Rudland Rigg is long, fast and easy.
Route Grade: Medium. Distance: 28.5km |
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ENDUROS |
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Rosedale Abbey Circuit
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, shoulderheight bracken and forest track.
Route Grade: Medium. Distance 25.3km |
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Blakey Bank Circuit
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 Grade: Medium. Distance: 33.5km . |
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Black Hambleton & Hawnby
This superb route follows some wellknown 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 Grade: Medium. Distance: 30.6km. |
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Hutton-le-Hole, Farndale & Rosedale
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 Grade: Medium. Distance 39.5km. |
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Rosedale & Fryup
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 Grade: Hard. Distance: 34.4km.
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Ravenscar – Big Country
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 jawdropping scenery to keep it interesting.
Route Grade: Medium-Hard. Distance: 36.7km. |
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Goathland Circuit
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 Grade: Medium-Hard. Distance: 36.7km. |
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Helmsley Circuit
Unique within this guide, this is a 38km ride within the National Park, yet which doesn’t 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.
Route Grade: Medium-Hard. Distance: 38km. |
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KILLERS |
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The Seven Dales
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 Grade: Hard. Distance: 61.5km |
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The Best Western
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.
Grade: Hard. Distance: 77km |
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BONUS SECTION
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Pickering–Levisham Station/Goathland
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 and pick up the train there.
Route Grade: Easy-Medium. Distance: 10.3km / 21.8km |
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Dalby Forest - Trail Centre
General facts & figures about England’s largest mountain bike trail centre (there’s something here for all riders). |
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Guisborough - Trail Centre
General facts & figures about Guisborough Mountain Bike Centre |
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Plus also includes lists of:
Top Ten Singletracks &
Top Ten
Downhills.
Plus brief information on the Moors to Sea Cycle Network |
