Derby To Bennerley Viaduct Loop. Great Local Derbyshire Ride.

Hello everyone, another great local Derbyshire ride out to Bennerley Viaduct(The Iron Giant). It is a 29 mile ride using a mixture of cycleway, road, canals & bridleways. It starts at Darley Abbey Park in Derby then out to Bennerley Viaduct passing along & through the following places; The Great Northern Greenway, Mapperley, Nottingham Canal, Erewash Canal, Shipley Country Park & Brackley Gate.
Here is the link to my Komoot map of the route: https://www.komoot.com/tour/1690366182?share_token=amppraRnAlJFA0dOIMzjxUB2QL4LSqNYR30Z3CVWmzUJoD6riR&ref=wtd
Enjoy!

hello everybody Welcome to the channel uh today is just another quick local ride um from Derby Dar Abby Park start out to beny Viaduct uh it’s about 28 29 miles using mainly uh cycle path cycle ways whatever you want to call them roads a few Bridal ways um out there back like I said start in Dar Alby Park um shiple do you know what boys and girls I can’t even remember so Dolly HBY Park out Great Northern Greenway uh M uh shiple beny Viaduct not in that order that’s all jumbled up but you get the the gist um as always there’ll be a link to my commute map of the rout in the description below enjoy I will see you in a bit sh all right it’s just the Great Northern Greenway top end of dery [Applause] just be careful on this Junction cuz loads of cars come blazing around that corner so they can’t see you coming out there well today is a lot better than I thought it would be cuz it’s uh very very heavily cloudy with super duper dark gray black rain clouds and raining on and off all morning like I said this is why I’ve come out so late you know all right now I know we Chain’s on let’s get across this little babbling block right and miss the mud yeah all right this is going to be new be a bridal way here public Bridal W and foot path to I this is what oh so this is where this brings you out very good so that little thought you better pass down here I don’t want to get too dirty there we go perfect though which way am I going what got a few ramble Thorns stuck in me trousers and me leg ha see here pain in the neck of a dudah to get through this is nice now oh you can see boys and girls this is the benal vi known as The Iron Giant this is what we’re going to be going across in a moment there you go information that’s how it looks from down below so we’re going to be Crossing that in a second we’ll be going going straight across down the other side then back down the canal that I accidentally just turned up a minute ago all way around down there oh so what are they doing oh no you can’t go across it cuz there’s Works going on this end that looks like we can go round and down right so looks like we can’t have access to it this end so we’ll follow this path as it looks like it is all the way around public ralway looks like we should be able to uh get to the other side and back down on the loop I wanted to do just to see if we can get on the vi up from the other end to show you oh that’s so annoying all see what we got going on a pain in the ass what a pain in the ass this is point boys and girls very nice all right I sure [Music] remember let’s get across this but there’s the entrance to get up there let’s have a look and obviously be able to see what’s actually going on at the other end as well everybody I think this bad weather put everyone offing out as you can see it’s been absolutely glorious so far I don’t like heights and it’s very windy and on a very rickety old uh I adop here we go tell at least you can get on this end and obviously there’s the uh little Railway walk Bridge just come over must have a look down there see if we can cross down there as well must be AC cross it oh yeah it looks like there’s a Bridge Road Bridge came over that’s the road bridge came over that’s lovely very good not see that’s where we were just down there to the left cycling around there after going through those woods in front of us cuz we couldn’t get through at least I know you can still get around actually a little look at what’s going very good yay well I must say boys and girls that was a bit of a mission you know cuz I’ve got like Auto planning malar turned off on my app cuz I hate it when you do just miss a turn but you know where you are and then it sort of messes up the rest of the so that was a little bit of on the Fly just having a look and know it looks like we can get around there and what not so yes we can let’s just have a little look at what they’re actually doing this end which stopped me from the initial route ah looks like they’re building a nice proper pathway here so that’s where we were just in that little Gap around there so it looks like they’re building a proper builtup uh walk and cycle way oh jolly good that’ll be good for the future right then let’s cycle back to the other end and you can see the other side what it looks like let crack on this is the a wash canal I’ve just thought I’m going back the way I came and that was all Mega steep downhill means it would be all Mega steep uphill cheers okay oh now prly G in and once we get down here it’ll be road path cycleway all the way back with a bit of spitting rain don’t know whether to stay in here for a moment so I don’t get wet doesn’t look like it’s too heavy and again there’s a bridge down here I can hide under the bridge come on mate sh for [Music] is