Sometimes describing Roads To Ride with just words doesn’t do them justice. The video collection started as a way of recording the fun we had while working, and it grew into a way of sharing the joy of engaging roads to ride. You can download (FREE) routes for them – with the odd exception – from the Routes page. Watch. Download. Enjoy. What could possibly go wrong?
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Racing started at Oliver’s Mount near the seaside town of Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, in 1948, using the service road to the Memorial. In the 70-plus years of racing history, this is perhaps the slowest on-board lap ever recorded. There is more information on Oliver’s Mount Racing in the Summer Road Racing 2023 article.
The B1434 is one of the labyrinth of superb country roads that cross crosses Lincolnshire. Standalone, it is seven miles long and an invigorating ride, but add in any order the roads that surround it, and you can create any number of different rides
The Grossglockner High Alpine Road – Großglockner Hochalpenstraße – is the highest surfaced mountain pass road in Austria. Connecting Bruck near Zell um Zee with Heiligenblut via the Fuscher Törl at 2,428 m (7,966 ft) and Hochtor Pass at 2,504 m (8,215 ft). One of the bucket list roads for most European motorcyclists.
Part of the ST2288 in Bavaria, Germany. Just one of the hundreds of roads in that region that are well worth a visit. Avoid the unrestricted Autobahns that keep the traffic away from these roads, and you’ll find invigorating roads without the need for a ferry trip to Spain.
Lincolnshire is covered in great riding roads, and the B1176 “Bitchfield Bends” is another great example. Running between Grantham and Corby Glen – the A52 and the A151 – The Bitchfield Bends are seven and a half miles of double S bends, fast sweepers and level changes.
There is a free GPX file for the Bitchfield Bends in the Midlands section of the Free motorcycle touring route, or click here
It may only be 8 miles long, but back in the seventies, the B1164 was the Great North Road – The A1 of its day. Then they built a dual carriageway to bypass Tuxford and left us with a wide curving motorcycling road.
There is a GPX file for this short section of road available in the Free Motorcycle Routes section. If you are heading north or south on the A1, it is well worth the short diversion.
Six minutes of the backroads in the Derbyshire Dales near Wirksworth. When it is March, and the sun is out, spare a thought for our fellow riders in parts of the world where they are still freezing.
The Devil’s Staircase is part of the Abergwesyn Road that runs from the small town of Abergwesyn to Tregar, passing through the Cambrian Mountains in mid-Wales Most famous for the short sequence of hairpins and their 20% gradient, the single-track road runs through an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is, perhaps, best ridden on a sunny day.
We took Honda’s NT1100 to some of the worst roads to test the suspension in the real world. You can read the deep dive review of the Honda NT1100 here
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The B1225 Caistor High Road is 20 miles of motorcycling delight through the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds. The twenty-mile road from Caistor in the north to Horncastle in the south is divided into four sections by crossroads with the A157, A631 and the B1203. The video shows the first 10 miles from the south end near Horncastle. If you are in this part of Lincolnshire, make sure you ride all of it.
Cadwell Park is a circuit where rider skill will often beat horsepower. The motorcycle featured in the video is a 19-year-old Honda CB500 twin, bought as a winter rebuild project. The CB500 is completely standard except for a slip-on exhaust. Power is estimated at around 45BHP. Even the tyres are 15+ years old.
However, when ridden by the Chief Instructor from Jewell Motorcycle Training … power isn’t always the requirement.
The Netzkater Café is located a few kilometres north of Nordhausen in the southern half of the Harz National Park. Extremely popular with motorcyclists, it is where the B4 and equally stimulating B81 meet. These are the last few kilometres heading south from Rothesutte on the B4.
You can read the whole story here – Harz Road Trip – Day One
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