Description
Mountain biking through forest and hill country.
The region is known for its bike trail centres, but it also has an extensive network of tracks, forest roads and older connecting routes beyond the waymarked trails. The book presents such cross-country options across several areas. It is useful if you want a cycling holiday with greater geographical variety, offering rides that give a different experience from following the same marked trails at one centre every day.
Twenty-one graded routes across several sub-regions.
Coverage includes Galloway, Lowther Hills, Campsie Fells, Pentlands, Lammermuirs and Tweed Valley. Routes range from around 17 to 66 kilometres and are graded from moderate to very demanding. This provides a basis for choosing routes according to both fitness and technical skill, with several options that can be ridden from different bases or combined into a larger tour through southern Scotland.
Maps and descriptions for planning.
The route information supports choices around starting points, line selection and execution across the different areas. The maps help you see how the connecting routes lie within the landscape. The book is useful both for choosing suitable routes before the trip and for finding an alternative ride along the way, should weather, time or fitness mean the original plan needs adjusting before you set off that day.
For experienced MTB riders in reasonably good shape.
The routes are not limited to smooth forest roads, and some include technical or physically demanding sections. Wet ground and distance can add to the challenge. The guide suits riders who can make active use of gradings and descriptions and choose routes according to their own ability, with room to account for local conditions, current access rules and other trail and path users encountered along the way through the area.
A long tradition of hiking guides.
Cicerone has published guidebooks since 1969. The publisher grew out of a community of climbers and mountain people who wanted to share detailed knowledge of their routes – a tradition that still shapes the publisher’s books on walking, trekking and other outdoor pursuits.
About this edition.
Author: Peter Edwards. English language. 208 pages. First edition, published in 2016. ISBN 9781852847470.
