Cheshire &
South Manchester
Gravel Biking
You can purchase "Cheshire & South Manchester Gravel Biking" four ways:
- Printed paperback from Amazon (best quality)
- Kindle/tablet/phone version from Amazon (best for travel)
- PDF e-book (cheapest & best for PC use - can be printed at home)
- In-store at Apus Peak
This book is for people living near or visiting the Cheshire and South Manchester area wanting to ride gravel bikes on permissible off-road tracks.
The book takes you off the beaten track to explore a selection of the best gravel trails across the area. It includes 13 cycling routes that range from 36-87km and start from a variety of locations around the region.
All the routes are circular, so you can pick your start-point anywhere on each route - and many of the routes touch (or come close to) other routes, so you can ad-lib and interconnect sections to form your own routes as your gravel knowledge of the area grows.
All the routes have navigation files (.gpx format), which are available for free-download.
The routes with this book are all a mix of off-road tracks and on-road sections, which link together the off-road bits to make circular routes.
The off-road sections fall into the middle-ground of gravel bikes - more interesting than tarmac but not into the territory of technical mountain biking.
A scale of 1-10 is used to rate each of the routes for the degree of intensity of riding - all of the routes can be ridden on a gravel bike. There is a good range across the routes - some are more challenging than others - explained in detail in the book so you know what to expect before you embark.
Each route has a full page map that shows the start point, distance markers and cafes along the way.
Each route is described with an elevation profile, key metrics, an elevation profiles for all the notable climbs and a route narrative.
A multitude of photos are also included throughout the book.
