The Big Ride Guide brings you the best road rides throughout the United Kingdom, from under 50km to over 100km. Features GPS downloads.
Cycling Plus The Big Ride Guide 2025 - Updated Version
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Dartmoor & Exmoor • NOT CONTENT WITH ONE DEVONSHIRE NATIONAL PARK WE AIM FOR TWO, COMBINING DARTMOOR AND EXMOOR IN ONE AMBITIOUS LOOP
South Downs • THE SUSSEX LANES ARE A ROLLERCOASTER OF PUNCHY CLIMBS NESTLED IN AIRY STRETCHES OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PART OF ENGLAND. HOW COULD WE RESIST…
Shropshire Hills • NO STRANGER TO UPHILL STRUGGLES, WE SENT CLIMBING SPECIALIST SIMON WARREN TO THE SHROPSHIRE HILLS, WHERE THE ROADS RARELY RUN FLAT
The Fens • WE EXILED ‘100 GREATEST CYCLING CLIMBS’ AUTHOR AND MOUNTAIN-FANATIC SIMON WARREN TO THE FENS IN SEARCH OF BRITAIN’S FLATTEST 100KM
Burnley • LEGENDARY WRITERS PAST AND PRESENT HELP SHAPE A RUTHLESS LOOP OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE’S SOUTH PENNINES
Merionethshire • WE CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE WELSH LAKE DISTRICT IN A CELTIC CELEBRATION OF SINGLETRACK ROAD SOLITUDE
Lake Vyrnwy • TREVOR WARD VENTURES TO THE LESSER-VISITED LAKE VYRNWY AND A RENDEZVOUS WITH THE VENOMOUS BWLCH Y GROES – THE PASS OF THE CROSS
Halifax • WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU TAKE THE SPIRIT OF THE TOUR OF FLANDERS AND PLONK IT IN WEST YORKSHIRE? THE RONDE VAN CALDERDALE, THAT’S WHAT
Lake District • OUR AUTHOR HADN’T RIDDEN THE LAKES SINCE IT CLINCHED WORLD HERITAGE SITE STATUS. HAD IT CHANGED? HONISTER AND HARDKNOTT PASSES CERTAINLY HADN’T…
Amble-Berwick • WE HEAD TO THE COUNTY OF CASTLES AND HOME TO THE DARKEST SKIES IN ENGLAND FOR ONE OF OUR MOST MEMORABLE BIG RIDES
Ayrshire • WE GO FOR A SPIN IN THE HILLY REGION OF SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND DUBBED THE ‘AYRSHIRE ALPS’ TO DISCOVER WHETHER IT’S WORTHY OF SUCH AN ICONIC NAME
Outer Hebrides & Skye • IT’S A CHANGE OF PACE FOR OUR SCOTTISH MAINLAND DUO WHO EMBARK ON A FERRY-HOPPING, BIKEPACKING TOUR THROUGH THE OUTER HEBRIDES AND SKYE