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177 day rides out of the North West — peaks, moors and coast, with a locator map for every chapter
Printed paperback, sold by Amazon.
Out of ideas? Never out of roads.
If you ride a motorbike around Manchester, you know how it goes. You love the machine, you love being out on it — but after a while the same old routes start to blur into one, and "where shall I go this weekend?" becomes the question that quietly keeps the bike in the garage.
Motorcycle Escapes from Manchester is the answer to that question, 177 times over.
This is a guidebook of day-trip destinations you can ride to from Greater Manchester, put together by a rider who got bored of the same three loops and went looking for better ones. Manchester's particular luck is that it sits in a bowl with hills on three sides and an escape in every direction.
Spread across twenty-eight regions — the city and the Bridgewater canal country at the centre, the Goyt and the Dark Peak passes eastward, the White Peak dales and Buxton to the south-east, the Staffordshire Moorlands and Macclesfield Forest below that, the Cheshire plain and the Sandstone Ridge west into Chester and the Wirral, the Dee valley over the Welsh border at Llangollen and Chirk, Liverpool and the Mersey shore, then north through Wigan and Rivington to the West Pennine moors, the Ribble Valley, the Trough of Bowland, Pendle, Rossendale, Saddleworth and Calderdale — it gives you somewhere worth riding to and, very often, a genuinely good road to get there on.
Riders based in Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Bolton, Oldham, Wigan and Warrington who want fresh destinations without a fortnight of research. Weekend explorers, ride-out organisers, born-again bikers easing back into it, and anyone who has ever sat on a bike wondering which way to turn out of the drive. You don't need to be fast, or brave, or on any particular kind of machine.