On the Ruffstuff: (Cicerone Cycling S.)

"Cycling For Everyone" would have been a good title for this book, which is in simple terms what the author has tried to achieve. "On the Ruffstuff" offers 80 cycle routes with a varying degree of off-road content. Some traverse high and bleak moors of North Yorkshire and Northumberland, others use disused railway tracks so prevalent in County Durham and Derbyshire. There are tracks around reservoirs in the Peak District and through the beautiful parkland of the Dukeries in Nottinghamshire with their lakes and picturesque estate houses. There are routes over the fells of Cumbria and some tough cycling in the Yorkshire Dales. A chapter is devoted to the coast to coast Trans-Pennine Trail, an ambitious project linking Liverpool with Hull. Many routes are on disused railways converted to cycle tracks to provide links into the cities or used simply for social riding. Canal towpaths feature as cycle tracks in many areas, and the two in this book in Lancashire and Cheshire are particularly interesting.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Sustrans Chapter 1- North Yorkshire Beadlam- Bransdale- Rudland Rigg- Hutton le Hole Hambleton Drove Road- Hawnby Scarborough to Whitby Trailway Clay Bank - Urra Moor Langdale End- Langdale Forest- Lilla Cross- Harwood Dale Goathland- Lilla Rigg- Horcum- Two Howes Rigg Langdale Forest Dalby Forest City of York York- Selby cycle Route Chapter 2: County Durham Brandon- Bishop Auckland- Deerness Valley Lanchester Valley- Deerness Valley Derwent Walk- Burnopfield- Leap Mill Farm Auckland Walk- Brandon- Bishop Auckland Chester- le- Street- Beamish- Causey Arch Low Pittington- Shadforth- Ludworth The Waskerley Way Hamsterley Forest The Consett and Sunderland Railway Path Chapter 3: Derbyshire and Staffordshire The High Peak Trail The Tissington Trail The Monsal Trail The Sett Valley Trail The Ladybower, Derwent and Howden Reservoirs Carsington Water The Shipley Country Park The City of Derby The Kingswinford Branch Railway Track Chapter 4: West and South Yorkshire Kiveton Park Ulley Country Park The Woodsetts Wobble The Ravenfield Romp The Firbeck Frolic Chapter 5: North Humberside The Hull to Hornsea Railway Line The Market Weighton to Beverley Railway Track Sledmere to Garton Bottom Wolds Circular Hull to Keyingham Railway Track Millington Dale and Warter The Bubwith to Market Weighton Railway Path Chapter 6: Nottinghamshire The Dukeries Cycle Trail Sherwood Forest and the Maun Valley Clumber Park and Cresswell Crags The Nottinghamshire Forests Chapter 7: The Yorkshire Dales Pateley Bridge- Gouthwaite Res.- Lofthouse Lofthouse- North Moor- Middlesmoor Mytholmroyd- Hebden Bridge- Stansfield Moor- Great Rock Hardcastle Crags- Gorple Reservoir- Hebden Bridge Littondale and Langstrothdale The Roman Run Kettlewell- Starbotton- Arncliffe Chapter 8: The Trans Pennine Trail The Cheshire Lines Path The Liverpool Loop Line A Route Through Greater Manchester Warrington The Longdendale Trail The Dove Valley Trail The Aire and Calder Navigation Towpath The York and Selby Path Selby to Howden The Hornsea Rail Trail Chapter 9: Cumbria Coniston and Walna Scar Threlkeld- Skiddaw House- Mungrisdale Boot- Wasdale Head- Santon Bridge- Dalegarth Station Dent Circular The Western Forests The Whitehaven to Ennerdale Cycle Track The Cumbria Cycle Track Chapter 10: Cheshire and Lancashire The Middlewood Way Lever Park- Rivington Reservoir- Rivington Pike The Rivington and Yarrow Reservoirs Routes around Lancaster Gisburn Forest The Leeds- Liverpool Canal at Wigan Chapter 11: South Tyneside and Northumberland The River Don Route The Monkton Mineral Line Cycleway The Hebburn Cycleway Derwent Reservoir and Slaley Forest The Drag The Burnt Ridge Challenge The Broad Way Route Kielder Forest A Six Day Ride Around Hadrian's Wall

About the Author :
J. Brian Beadle has been cycling and walking the hills and valleys of northern England for over forty years. When the all terrain cycle was introduced he took to the hills to explore the many bridleways and tracks capable of being ridden by these versatile machines. He writes regularly for the 'outdoor' magazines and has a monthly column on off road cycling in a regional newspaper.