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 raise money for the...

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 clement February week,...

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 the Cold Dark North s...

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

As you may have heard, we love to help our fellow riders with crazy challenges. Especially when they combine a relentless pursuit of new roads and they don't...

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

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 to add some sort of ...

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 beautiful (if freezing) ...

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 of the Cold Dark Nort...

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

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 National Park. This w...

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 favourite local rid...

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 Lake District National ...

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 favourite places to rid...

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 with a degree of glee...

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 in some miles on our ...

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 talking but you can ...

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 recent Tour de France...

If you ride enough in the Cold Dark North (or with someone from round here), eventually they will start to tell you about a beautiful, remote, quiet and unsp...