Favorite back roads

[tallliman]

@13 rider, I barely ever use that bit of road as whilst it's nice, I find it slow!

Loads of favourites round me, the road between Kinoulton and Cropwell Bishop is lovely on a good day but miserable otherwise.

 

[TeeShot]

Living on the edge of Cheshire and The Peak District it's hard to single out one road as a favourite, but the climb from the Goyt valley to Derbyshire Bridge is hard to beat. Starting beside the Errwood reservoir the road threads it's way up the hill beside the tumbling river Goyt in the valley below. But best of all the road is closed to motorised traffic at weekends and it's one way (up). By the time you get to Derbyshire Bridge you just want to turn round and do it all again. Probably just as well you can't though!!

 

[Mr Celine]

[QUOTE 4760442, member: 9609"]The area south of Kelso & Coldstream into the Cheviots, a myriad of tiny roads criss crossing the border, ...[/QUOTE]

Like this one

Note the square flat stone in the right foreground and its pair immediately beside the rear wheel of my bike. These mark where England ends. The flat stone aligned across the road has a less clear (in this photo) pair by the front wheel of my bike. These mark where Scotland starts. The bike itself is in no-mans land.

 

[Drago]

You were in the DMZ!

 

[flake99please]

The road that takes you from Bonaly reservoir to Harlaw reservoir. I'm having a tea & cake break at the vanilla pod cafe at the moment, but will upload some pics when I get home.

 

[DaveReading]

A couple of my local routes include short loops (both, coincidentally, called Mill Lane) that, although on road, are invariably traffic-free as there are faster/wider/more direct alternatives.

Of course now I've said that, I'll probably come face-to-face with a 4x4 or horse-box on my next time out ...

 

[iandg]

The old A858 single track that runs from the 'Pentland Road' to Achmore just outside Stornoway

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/20316657

 

[Mark1978]

They seem to have mistaken the road name for resurfacing instructions, sadly. Lady Drove and the north end of Silt Road were both in better nick last time I rode them.

Not surprised Silt Road is in better condition right now, it's recently fallen apart at multiple points and had to be rebuilt in quite a few places. One unfortunate driver drove over it as it collapsed and it was closed for a few weeks for repair work. Lady Drove is slowly subsiding as per usual, as is Barroway Drove.

Haven't been down gravel bank recently, but if they have just topped dressed it, that's a travesty.

 

[HLaB]

Love back roads but its hard to say what is actually my favourite one

But this is my favourite 'Main Road'

At the bottom

 

[Mo1959]

Love back roads but its hard to say what is actually my favourite one

This is my favourite 'Main Road'

At the bottom

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I was going to link to that one too. Hard to say it is my favourite with that climb no matter which direction you do it, but it is quite well surfaced and can be very peaceful and beautiful on a nice day.

 

[Dave 123]

It's a dead end road, it's a back road but it feeds the villages. Anyway the road from Chirk to Llanarmon DC. The B4500.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Living on the edge of Cheshire and The Peak District it's hard to single out one road as a favourite, but the climb from the Goyt valley to Derbyshire Bridge is hard to beat. Starting beside the Errwood reservoir the road threads it's way up the hill beside the tumbling river Goyt in the valley below. But best of all the road is closed to motorised traffic at weekends and it's one way (up). By the time you get to Derbyshire Bridge you just want to turn round and do it all again. Probably just as well you can't though!!

That's a cracker, I agree. In the same area the road through Wildboarclough is a beauty, for a couple of miles it seems you hardly have to pedal (assuming you are going North to South that is) and again there's a babbling brook alongside.

 

[mjr]

Haven't been down gravel bank recently, but if they have just topped dressed it, that's a travesty.

It was 2 years ago I last noticed it. It went overnight from smooth tarmac with a few patches to a metric f-ton of granite chippings drifting around. It's still a good road but it's not as good as it was.

It's like Wildfield Road and whatever it becomes across Hall Road in Clenchwarton: it was a good road, not far from town yet on the edge of the vast space. And then they chipped it to hell so you have to spend half the time watching the surface and picking your line

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm going to go for one of my regular French ones - the road between St Julien-en-Quint and Die - rarely a car, and the most satisfying descent. And not a bad view from the top:

 

[nickyboy]

That's a cracker, I agree. In the same area the road through Wildboarclough is a beauty, for a couple of miles it seems you hardly have to pedal (assuming you are going North to South that is) and again there's a babbling brook alongside.

Agree 100%. Wildboarclough is really nice. The only problem for me is to get there from Glossop requires a fair bit of climbing. Still it's worth it. It's even nice S to N as the gradient is very gentle