Mountain Biking to Stoodley Pike Using the Pennine Bridleway, Mary Townley Loop and Pennine Way

Spring is tuning up but winter is definitely still on stage giving it full gas on the outro! But the warmer, longer days will be here soon enough.

A little ‘stop the week’ MTB ride out on my local Pennine trails. It’s been quite a while since I went right up to this summit.

Happy cycling, folks!

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Cuerdale you can probably just see up there on the horizon studly Spike we’re coming for you just about to uh start on London Road absolutely brilliant Trails so far I’m more to come I think let’s Goold how one bring out the TRU holding up till all of it is gone lay down our so I was just uh thinking this morning that I haven’t actually been up to the top right up to Studley Pike since 1996 it’s a very long time ago it’s what 28

Years and uh although many of the rides that you do in this part of the penines and in and around cdale you see studly Pike and these other big sort of you know features like peel Tower and Emily moall for miles and miles around and they’re great sort of beacons of where

You are the route home how far you are away from that big cup of tea when you get back through the door but uh been a long time since I uh actually went right up to Studley as I said and back in the day seems A Million Miles Away now but uh

We’d often hike up uh well down into Todd and then up uh Studley Pike and then gings and go swimming this was long before the days of you know while swimming being a thing I think probably was but it was very very Niche at the time and

Uh yeah I was just looking for some root ideas this morning a couple of hours to kill this afternoon and uh fancy getting out on the bike and uh one pointy shaped Monument sprung to mind and we’re getting close to it now that looks deep think I might go around

That let’s get up there with dry feet [Applause] ehy really gaining some height now and we’re on the panine way actually at this section just going to pick up to pick my way up to the ridg line nice and stey I’ve lost that monster headwind which is

Great and I’m hoping that’ll be a really nice Tailwind on the way back what a place to ride your bike and quite excited to uh actually get up to steadly Pike and uh lay a hand on it Foundation it’s been a long time need both hands back now it is getting steep

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Over uh I don’t want to hit gig’s D I want to skirt round it to the to the east I guess and uh try and pick up some of the uh Reservoir access roads man it’s wild up here I think I need to like lose a little bit height and

Uh hopefully things will come down a little bit but uh here’s where we are it’s fantastic okay I hope you you can hear this it’s uh the wind is not letting up but I’m back on familiar Trails now this is probably the edge of where I’ll get

To on an evening ride maybe so I can have work pole and uh what a place to be the end of the day rush hours in full swing down in the valley and I’ve got the whole of the tops to myself C it’s just absolutely fantastic and uh it’s full body workout

Today we’ve um done some penine briway we’ve done some of the Mary Towny Loop uh I let me tell you the riding around here is very very bumpy and lumpy it’s proper kind of off-road single track it’s absolutely fantastic though uh I do sometimes wish I had a

Full suspension mountain bik but it might just be me getting a bit old and soft in my uh in my dotage but yeah I’ve uh Nick’s one of my son’s breakfast qu on so I’m going to uh wolf that down have a little drink not stop too long cuz it’s pretty cold up

Here and then we’ll head into the sunshine try and get back back onto uh Blackstone edge road before the sun’s sun goes down I think we’ll manage it uh no problem at all anyway I’ll chat to you in a bit I don’t know if it comes across just how

Choppy that water is in the reservoir with the wind but yeah Breezy to say the least up here today spectacular views now oh puddle dodging with one hand I think this is another of those rides where the scull on the doors are pretty modest I maybe uh get 24 25

Miles by the time I get home but uh really feel like you’re done a bike ride proper workout all sorts of different terrain and just some of those views on the top around the back of studly Pike out of the wind were kind of reminded me when uh back in the

Day why we used to go and hike up there and on the kind of bright Summer Saturday afternoon be pretty busy but uh if you’re local to the area one of the advantages you can get up and out to these places when it’s quiet late in the

Evening especially in the summer and you really get the whoa what the side wind wa my god wow just come out the shelter from that wall bloody hell oh my word all right going to put the camera away bloody hell all right just taking shelter behind this little Verge man that wind was

Strong but yeah I was saying if you’ve got got the uh privilege of being local to some of these areas you can get out uh and explore them when they’re really quiet and for me that’s that’s the real beauty of uh of the penines and Cale and you know those

Are the mo moments and the experiences that I absolutely love uh uh seeking out on on my bicycle and uh had a few of those today oh man I feel like I’ve got post-traumatic wind gust syndrome but uh anyway enough waffling uh as ever if you made it this far in

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Really appreciate it uh please stay safe take care and uh Havey cycling I’ll see you on the next one I got a bit of a road series coming up actually and uh I’ll tell you more about that uh perhaps in the next video but bye for Now