Route 1. Welbeck and Clumber
Distance: 29km. Grade: Moderate
Mostly Flat with a few gentle hills. Excellent green lanes and gravel forest tracks. 21km off road, 8km on road.
Route 2. Sherwood Forest
Distance: 24km. Grade: Moderate
Mostly level but with a few hills. Forest tracks and bridleways. 20km off road, 4km on road.
Route 3. The West Leake Hills
Distance: 29km. Grade: Difficult
Hilly, Fair to good field edge bridleways. Soggy in part. Off road 18km, on road 11km.
Route 4. Charnwood Forest
Distance: 24km. Grade: Moderate
Small hills and woodland. Gravel tracks, open fields and woodland paths. 13km off road, 11km on road.
Route 5. Barkby
Distance: 27km. Grade: Difficult
Gentle rolling hills. Well defined sometimes soft bridleways plus good tracks. 18km off road, 9km on road.
Route 6. Tilton and Quenby
Distance: 24km. Grade: Difficult
Gentle rolling hills. Bridleways across pasture and green lanes. 14km off road, 10km on road.
Route 7. Burrough Hill
Distance: 27km. Grade: Very Difficult
Rolling hills, farm land and green lanes. Green lanes, grass and gravel, field bridleways. 16km off road, 11km on road.
Route 8. Launde Abbey
Distance: 19km. Grade: Difficult
Gentle rolling hills. Field edges and hard-pack tracks. Off road 14km, on road 5km.
Route 9. Twycross
Distance: 36km. Grade: Difficult
Gently undulating. Some difficult field edge bridleways but mostly solid tracks.
Route 10. Market Bosworth
Distance: 27km. Grade: Easy
Farm land and canal towpaths. 15km off road, 12km on road.
Route 11. Leicester Forest
Distance: 28km. Grade: Difficult
very gently undulating on good classified roads but soft woodland bridleways. 18km off road, 10km on road.
Route 12. Rolleston
Distance: 32km. Grade: Very Difficult
Gently rolling hills and farmland. Surfaces from good solid tracks to field edges. 19km off road, 13km on road.
Route 13. Medbourne
Distance: 28km. Grade: Difficult
A bit hilly. Excellent gravel tracks and horrible arable bridleways!. Off road 19km, 9km on road.
Route 14. Foxton Locks
Distance: 18km. Grade: Moderate
A little bit hilly on occasions. Excellent stony tracks and some difficult bridleways across fields.
Route 15. Fineshade
Distance: 32km. Grade: Difficult
Gently undulating, small hills. Forest tracks, good grassy bridleways but also bridleways across arable fields. 30km off road, 12km on road.
Route 16. Lyveden New Bield
Distance: 24km. Grade: Moderate
Gently undulating. Field bridleways and byways - can be hard going when wet. 14km off road, 10km on road.
Route 17. Cottesbrooke
Distance: 25km. Grade: Moderate
Very gently undulating. Good gravel tracks, some grassy bridleways. 17km off road, 8km on road.
Route 18. Canons Ashby
Distance: 22km. Grade: Difficult
Very gently rolling countryside. Moslty byways from good to very rutted. Soft when wet. 16km off road, 6km on road.
Route 19. Silverstone
Distance: 30km. Grade: Very Difficult
Very gentle rolling countryside. Some good tracks but some difficult bridleways and byways - especially when wet. 21km off road, 9km on road.
Route 20. Brinklow
Distance: 30km. Grade: Very Difficult
A lot of farmland. bridleways along edge of fields and in woods - make for a very difficult ride. 16km off road, 14km on road.
Route 21. The Priors
Distance: 30km. Grade: Difficult
Flat with a few bumps. Bridleways and tracks across mixed farmland. 22km off road, 8km on road.
Route 22. The Leicestershire Bike Round
Distance: 120km. Grade: Very Severe
This throws everything at you except mountains!
