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168 destinations from Leeds — the Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors, mill valleys and the Wolds
Printed paperback, sold by Amazon.
Out of ideas? Never out of roads.
If you ride a motorbike around Leeds, you know how it goes. You love the machine — but the same old routes blur into one, and "where shall I go this weekend?" becomes the question that quietly keeps the bike in the garage.
Motorcycle Escapes from Leeds and Yorkshire is the answer to that question, 168 times over.
It's a guidebook of day-trip destinations within about ninety minutes of Leeds, put together by a rider who got bored of the same three loops and went looking for better ones. Leeds sits in a county that changes character every twenty miles: mill valleys to the west, the coalfield and the steel to the south, limestone and walled York to the east, and the dales opening one after another to the north. You can stand in front of a Holbeck flax mill wearing the front of an Egyptian temple and be under the twenty-four arches of Ribblehead Viaduct the same afternoon.
One honest note: there's no coast here. Whitby and Scarborough are ninety-odd road miles each way — a long day, not this one. Everything in this book gets you home for supper.
It's for riders in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Harrogate, York, Barnsley and Sheffield who want fresh destinations without a fortnight of research. You don't need to be fast, or brave, or on any particular machine — nearly every place sits at the end of an ordinary road, a short walk from where you park.