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This book is exactly what the doctor ordered; it's fresh and upbeat in style, with great photos that really show some of the trails in their best light.

MBR Magazine

This is a superb guide book. Written by someone who clearly knows his stuff, the routes are clearly and concisely described and the mapping is excellent, being proper OS maps.

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North York Moors Mountain Biking

Moorland Trails


ISBN: 9781906148089
Author: Tony Harker
Format: Paperback (176pp)
RRP: £14.95
Date:Friday, 19 December 2008

North York Moors Mountain Biking - Moorland Trails is the ninth title in our bestselling series of UK mountain bike guidebooks. This book features 21 routes in the North York Moors National Park, between 10km and 77km in length, suitable for all levels of mountain bikers.

The North York Moors National Park contains some of the most beautiful moorland scenery in the UK -sea views, hidden villages and valleys, wild and bleak moor. It also contains some of the country's best mountain biking with wild and fast moorland tracks, technically demanding singletrack and intricate and exciting forest riding.

The routes have been put together by Tony Harker, a moors local and experienced mountain biker and founder of the moors-dedicated Muddybums mountain biking website. Each route is described with easy-to-follow directions and details of distance, grade of difficulty, refreshment stops and is plotted on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping.

A Bonus Section includes Top Tens for downhills and singletrack, plus information about the purpose-built trail centres at Dalby Forest and Guisborough and the Moors to Sea cycle network. A comprehensive appendix includes further information about finding places to eat, drink & stay.

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About the author

 

Growing up in Teesside Tony Harker started walking on the moors at a young age in the 1970s. Tony took to mountain biking in the 1990s and is still going strong. In 1999, Tony created the moors-dedicated mountain biking
website Muddybums www.muddybums.org.uk in response to the limited information on routes available to ride on the moors. Tony’s passion for mountain biking on the moors shines through in this guide.
 
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