The Big Ride Guide features the most stunning, and at times challenging, road rides across the United Kingdom. Each ride comes with a downloadable GPS file.
Cycling Plus Big Ride Guide 2025
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Bude • A RELAXING BREAK AND GENTLE SOJOURN IN KERNOW…? NOT A BIT OF IT. NICK BUSCA PLOTS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST CENTURY RIDES IMAGINABLE FROM THE TOWN OF BUDE
Isle of Wight • PRISTINE ROADS, STUNNING VIEWS AND EASY NAVIGATION MAKE A LAP OF THE GLORIOUS ISLE OF WIGHT A MUST-DO FOR ALL ROADIES…
South Downs • THE SUSSEX LANES ARE A ROLLERCOASTER OF PUNCHY CLIMBS NESTLED IN AIRY STRETCHES OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PART OF ENGLAND. HOW COULD WE RESIST…
Eardisley • WE VISIT THE RELATIVELY UNTOUCHED HEREFORDSHIRE AND ITS QUAINT COUNTRY LANES, CIDER ORCHARDS AND FORMIDABLE CLIMBS
Lake Vyrnwy • TREVOR WARD VENTURES TO THE LESSER-VISITED LAKE VYRNWY AND A RENDEZVOUS WITH THE VENOMOUS BWLCH Y GROES – THE PASS OF THE CROSS
Rutland • RUTLAND MAY BE ENGLAND’S SMALLEST COUNTRY BUT IT HIDES A TREASURE TROVE OF STRIKING LANDSCAPES, CUTE VILLAGES AND QUIET ROADS
Burnley • LEGENDARY WRITERS PAST AND PRESENT HELP SHAPE A RUTHLESS LOOP OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE’S SOUTH PENNINES
Morecambe - Scarborough • SIMON WARREN ATTEMPTS A C2C RIDE, FROM MORECAMBE TO SCARBOROUGH, IN A SINGLE DAY – BUT WOULD HE CATCH HIS TRAIN AT THE END?
Lake District • OUR AUTHOR HADN’T RIDDEN THE LAKES SINCE IT CLINCHED WORLD HERITAGE SITE STATUS. HAD IT CHANGED? HONISTER AND HARDKNOTT PASSES CERTAINLY HADN’T…
Carlisle - Newcastle • WE TRACE HADRIAN’S WALL FROM CARLISLE TO NEWCASTLE, FUELLED ON A ROMAN SOLDIER’S DIET AND PROMISE OF A LAWTON WRAP-PARTY
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 AN ICONIC NAME
Firth of Tay • A WINTRY SOLO LOOP IN THE PERTHSHIRE HILLS IS BRIGHTENED BY A SPRIGHTLY CAMEO FROM A LOCAL AUDAX LEGEND