Natural Singletrack near Manchester

compo

Does anyone know of any rides which have lots of singletrack which are near train stations easily reachable from Manchester?

We have done around Rivington, around Littleborough and Todmorden and around Hayfield so were looking for something new.

I was wondering if anybody knew of any rides around Glossop which we could do from the station?

Cheers

Clank

Some cracking Byways et al around Glossop, The Good Mountain Biking Guide has a few tracks listed for that neck of the woods. For my money, I'd try and get to Edale - you can make some cracking loops that'll include Roych Clough from there. Worth the effort.

aguesty1

Hebden Bridge is raved about, not sure what it's like though! what about train into Rochdale then doing the pennine bridleway / mary towny loop.

compo

Sounds ace, has anyone got links to routes?

homers_double

Which side of Littleborough have you done? Probably hollingworth lake side?

Head up the other side of the valley for some extra trails around wayergrove.

Clank

compo wrote:

Sounds ace, has anyone got links to routes?

Found a couple. The second has some mighty bits in it:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Edale-Loop-Peak-District
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/roman-lakes-kidner-edale-loop

This website has a 'routes and riding section', that links to Bikely. Have a look in there.

delcol

thesemaps are very good and reasonably priced.

aguesty1

Try this link, looks a cracking ride!
http://www.theedgecycleworks.com/mtbrou ... rack-route

compo

Cheers again for the info guys.
Ended up doing this route http://www.bogtrotters.org/route/showrouteframe.php?route=39

Very good in the warm weather we've had recently. On top of the moors is sublime