I'd like you to visit us here in the Yorkshire Dales on the edge of Bowland and enjoy a great day out on a bike. If you haven't ridden for a while I hope you'll rediscover what fun it can be on safe, quiet roads and routes that are tailor made to suit your experience. If you've never ridden a bike for any distance I hope you'll find out what fun it can be, and a good way to keep fit.

There's much more to riding a bike than puffing and panting up hills, there's the feel of the wind in your face, the excitement of a fast downhill run and the satisfaction of a well earned tea stop or pub lunch along the way.

The Dales and Bowland are both places best seen by bike and if off the rails can encourage you to leave the car at home, come here by bus or train, and discover a whole new way to get around I'll be dead chuffed, as we say round here.

In short, on your bike!

Colin Clifford