For roadies in the Cold Dark North the fringes of the Forest of Bowland feature three testing and beautiful road climbs - the "only" ways...

The Cafs of the #ColdDarkNorth - these are the places we've been, we've heard about, we recommend or we have had recommended to us.

We sponsored the inaugural The Struggle Hill Climb in 2019, put on brilliantly by the Barrow Central Wheelers and The Lakes Road clubs to...

It's one of those things for our little brand - getting out for a ride isn't always easy. Last Saturday, at the end of an unseasonably cl...

Every now and then, someone contacts us to tell us about a recent adventure in the Cold Dark North. There's no real definition to where t...

Over this long hot summer we've been drawn further North into the beautiful empty Eden Valley, the Northern Lakes and the North Pennines....

As you may have heard, we love to help our fellow riders with crazy challenges. Especially when they combine a relentless pursuit of new ...

After being forced to change the venue from the traditional Capernwray circuit owing to the bridge on the course being closed, we were tr...

If you're anything like me you'll know the anguish of not being able to vary a ride beyond an out-and-back. I'll go to ludicrous lengths ...

The Lune RCC Coal Road Challenge 2018 Before the Beast from the East arrived in the first week of March 2018, we were treated to ten beau...

Our Christmas Special "Cold Dark Rides" features a true don in the world of climbing up hills on a bicycle. Mr Simon Warren is a friend o...

Our fifth "Cold Dark Rides" takes on the unfamiliar fringes of Lancashire and Yorkshire in the Dales and the Forest of Bowland. These roa...

Our fourth "Cold Dark Rides" follows last week's example and plunges up and down the steep climbs and deep valleys of the Lake District N...

The third in our new series "Cold Dark Rides" finally takes us into the Lakes proper. The real Cold Dark North. The brief for some of our...

The second in our new series "Cold Dark Rides" takes us to some more corners of the Cold Dark North, but doesn't even need the iconic Lak...

Our new series "Cold Dark Rides" is all about asking the riders, friends and businesses of the Cold Dark North to share with us their fav...

We're often asked for help with routes that people are putting together as well as guidance on local hills to seek out or avoid. It was w...

We're quite often asked to plan a route for people coming up to visit the Cold Dark North for some other purpose but wanting to squeeze i...

We were delighted to host the 2017 National Women's Masters Road Race at Oakenclough in the Cold Dark North. We'll let the photos do the ...

It can be difficult to know where to start with the vastness of the Yorkshire Dales and Lancashire Fells. From the famous climbs of the r...