Reader's routes
Tell us - and everyone else, about your favourite route.
Each month MSL features some great articles on motorcycle touring. Many of you - our dear readers - have had some great touring rides of your own - and we'd like to hear from you!
Using the sample readers' ride report below, write a brief guide to your favourite route, giving information on points of interest, places to stop off, starting and stopping point, total ride distance and a description of the route by road names/numbers & towns if possible.
You can write the report directly into your email program, or into MS Word, TextPad or just notepad - and once complete simply email it to us - with a photo or photos if you have them!
Email your Route to: myrides@mslmagazine.co.uk
Sample Article
Below is a sample submission. The text in bold shows you the different sections we need. For a blank sample layout click here - you can copy this and paste it into your email cient / Word document to begin writing!
Your name: John Doe
Your location: Horncastle
Your contact details (email/address/phone):
jdoe@sample.com, 01507 529529
Where is your route?
Scarborough
In no more than 500 words, describe your route and what you think is special about it:
Example: I love this route, as I grew up visiting my relatives in Scarborough on a regular basis. For some reason my father always went this way as opposed to the far easier route of the A64.
Starting out at junction 37 of the M62 take the A614 sign-posted Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, not a particularly adventurous road at the moment but this route is a ‘builder’. It’s flat, but there are a number of super bends on this stretch with clear visibility. Continue on to Driffield and around the town still on the A614. Leave the A614 on the B1249 signposted for Langtoft. It’s at this point that you start to climb up onto the spectacular Yorkshire Wolds.
Continuing along the B1249 and you’re faced with glorious sweepers, intermingled with some quite technical turns; but be warned, some can come up on you rather quickly. Two sets of bends are of particular note, one I always called quarry bends (no this is not the TT) and the hotel bends. They have the same appearance, or always did for me. I make reference to them as I have heard of many a person come a cropper through here, usually our friends from the mad-hatter brigade. You eventually come to the top of Foxholes. One of the longest hills I have ever had the joy of riding down. It goes on for ever, but be wary of opening that throttle for a thrill, the fuzz can often be found at the bottom having tracked unwary motorists' speed for the past few miles. Easy pickings I’m afraid, although with good reason as at the bottom is the village of Foxholes which is a 30mph limit.
Head on out of Foxholes for Staxton about six miles further on. When you arrive at Staxton be sure to stop in the car park at the top, a gravel car park so enter with caution. Here you’ll find some public lavs, picnic benches and in the summer season, some form of sustenance. That aside, be sure to walk to the grass mounds at the end of the car park and savour the spectacular view over The Carrs that signify the end of the Wolds. Look to the right and you can see your destination on a reasonably clear day, more obvious is Oliver's Mount with its mast and Cleopatra-type needle on top.
Turn left out of the car park down a 1:4 descent, which makes you realise how high you are, and take a left at the bottom joining the A64 and the more traditional tourist route. Just follow the signs into Scarborough. Be sure to head down to the south side of the resort for a Jaconelli ice cream, a staple diet of any Scarborian and a local delicacy. The list of things to do is endless be sure to take the Marine Drive around to the north side and check out Peasholm Park and the Treewalk. Go up to the castle, which was shelled by the German battle cruisers in WWI. Need more? Check out www.discoveryorkshirecoast.com and make a day of it. Enjoy.
Highlight the things to do and see on your route:
Castle
Olivers Mount Memorial and race circuit
Amusements
Historic old town on the south side
The old market and vaults
Italian Gardens
Peasholm Park
Cricket ground
Highlight the places to stop off, on your route:
Driffield town centre and showground
Staxton Wold viewing area
Scarborough with lots of cafés and biker friendly pubs
Your route at a glance:
Highlight:
Peasholm Park and the Glen
Watch out for:
Farm muck on the roads and a few very tight turns
Distance:
60 miles
Time taken:
1¾ hours plus stops.
Describe your route, with road numbers and special directions if needed:
Junction 37 M62 take A614 to Driffield
Turn onto B1249 at Driffield
Continue all the way through to joining the A64 into Scarborough
Continue into Scarborough along the Seamer Road
Turn right onto Valley Road sign-posted South Side.
Arrive on the sea front.
msl magazine readers routes form
Your name:
Your location:
Your contact details (email/address/phone):
Where is your route?
In no more than 500 words, describe your route and what you think is special about it:
Highlight the things to do and see on your route:
Highlight the places to stop off, on your route:
Your route at a glance:
Highlight:
Watch out for:
Distance:
Time taken:
Describe your route, with road numbers and special directions if needed:
Email your Route to: myrides@mslmagazine.co.uk
