Off road in W Yorkshire?

[donteatpeople]

I am about to buy a cheap off road style bike and want to take off road.

Is there a website that lists all the places with public access? Does anyone know of any good places to go near Huddersfield?

[twinpipe]

If it's road legal you can do the green lanes the other side of Holmefirth which you can link up right down in to the peaks and Sheffield. Incidently there's an article in one of the Land Rover mags about this.
Or if not then you're quite limited to places like Flappit above Denholme or doing something competative.

[donteatpeople]

The bike will be 100% road legal. The main purpose of the bike is commuting but I thought while I have the bike for it I might as well give off road riding a try.

How do you know a ‘green lane’ when you see one? Are there any green lane maps available? or is it a case of its open if it doesn’t say otherwise?

[v15ben]

There is a place down in Tong Village, Bradford rather than Huddersfield that is a regular favourite of bikers and offroad 4x4 drivers. Juts opposite the Tong Hotel down a farm track.

[twinpipe]

Tong is great but it's private property so either have to wait for a play day or bung the guy who owns it, David.

Best way to check green lanes is on an OS map there are 2 types
RUPPs - Roads Used as Public Paths - . - . - .
BOATs - Byways Open to All Traffic + + + + + +

and are shown in pink on the map.

This is the one out of Holmefirth

www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=413000&Y=405000&width=500&height=300&gride=414310.518654178&gridn=416607.760819016&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=25000&left.x=3&left.y=96

Though usually correct OS stipulate that these are not necesarilly rights of way.

Enjoy

[donteatpeople]

Thank you.

Are we looking at the white road with red dots, I could not find a key.

[Twinpipe]

That's the one. Where it turns to crosses is a really good bit, very rocky!