Presenting Britain's Best Road And Gravel Routes. The Big Ride Guide is brought to you by Britain's best-selling road cycling magazine, Cycling Plus. Inside you'll find... • 44 routes from England, Scotland and Wales • Downloadable GPX files • Nearby coffee stops, pubs and accommodation
The Big Ride Guide 2021
Introduction
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
Salisbury Plain • We head to Salisbury Plain where the advent of gravel bikes has opened up a world of possibility for roadies
The Fens • Intrigued to find out if it would bring him out in hives, we exiled 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs author and mountain-fanatic, Simon Warren, to the Fens in search of Britain’s flattest 100km
Shropshire Hills • No stranger to uphill struggles, we sent climbing specialist Simon Warren to the Shropshire Hills, where the roads rarely run flat…
Cheshire Plain • We hit the lanes of the Cheshire Plain where bucolic charm melds with a man who’s seen more than most in the urban jungle…
Lake District • Our author hadn’t ridden the Lakes since it clinched World Heritage Site status. Had it changed? Honister and Hardknott Passes hadn’t. (They were still painful…)
Yorkshire Dales • We take a tour through the Yorkshire Dales to see how cycling is changing business networking
Three Peaks • Ever the one to hunt out climbs, Simon Warren stitches together a colossal ride that scales the peaks of three north England counties…
Amble to Berwick • Just weeks ahead of national lockdown part one, we got a taste of an alternative spring on our coastal jaunt from Amble to Berwick
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 a famous name
Loch Ness 360° • A joining of two trails has created the Loch Ness 360° – a gravel cycling paradise
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
Merionethshire • We circumnavigate the Welsh Lake District in a Celtic celebration of singletrack road solitude