A fairly easy lane that starts as a residential street in the town of Luton but as the houses end a short tarmac stretch leads to the back of the University of Bedfordshire , Putteridge Bury Campus and the byway starts from a gate here.
It is subject to a permit scheme but this does not apply to motorcycles, 4×4 drivers can get access if a member of a recognised, responsible group such as GLASS or one of the local Land Rover & 4×4 clubs, permits are available from Hertfordshire County Council.
An unsealed, metalled surface throughout, it descends across open fields where the surface has suffered some water damage but is still easy to ride.
After reaching some woods, the lane levels out but do expect an amount of surface water after rain, although the lane does drain quickly.
Grade: GREEN
Length 1.75 kilometres (just over 1 mile)
Ridden: 12th October 2023
Bike: KTM 390 Adventure
Tyres: Kenda Big Block (F), Mitas E09 (R)
Welcome to the byway Nomad my name is Tony Ferrari and thank you for watching my Videos today we’re looking at pdge Road or offley byway number 30 now this is a bit unusual in that it starts in a residential street in the town of Luton but as you get to the end of the houses you cross over into hartfordshire and very soon soon will’ll
Arrive at the section of Lane that we’re actually interested in as you can see from the video we’re still on a Tarmac Road at this stage and this is an entrance into the University of bedfordshire partridgeberry Campus so can be quite busy need to look out for other vehicles but as we come
Towards the buildings of the campus the road takes a sharp right hand turn now what you may not notice is the sign on the right and you can see it here which says that this Lan’s for permit holders only and sure enough here’s a gate to
Enforce that but equally it has a nice wide gate for motorbikes to get through because the permit scheme does not apply to motorbikes now you’ll see the surface is an unsealed metal one and this continues for the rest of the lane as it moves into Open Fields it starts to descend
And there’s a little bit of water damage as well on the way down gets worse in places and this can make it quite tricky especially on a large bike um the surface is quite loose so you need to be careful of your braking now this Lane was subject to an
Awful lot of fly tipping hence the permit scheme so it’s a much better Lane for that because you don’t find piles of rubbish in the middle of it like you used to and quite often even Tipper trucks you know just delivering a load right in front of where you want to ride
It’s happened to me on many an occasion now it’s an interesting thing about the name in that it seems to be marked on all maps as pdge road which is the name of the tarmac Road leading to it but it ends at another road called luten White Hill curiously luten white
Hill is almost completely flat so I do Wonder because luten white Hill seems much more apt name for this section and if you see something running across the track there that was actually a black squirrel now these are a strange genetic mutation of the gray squirrel
That used to be found around the town of leworth in hartfordshire but are now starting to spread further a field um we’re not too far from leworth so not that unusual to see them around here for a lane so close to a large town you do
See a lot of wildlife um you might spoted a rabbit back there a little way and these are very common as well as deer now as the lane reaches the woods it flattens out and you can see it does hold a bit of surface water although the previous night had been exceptionally
Wet it drains quite well and could be ridden in virtually all conditions as a result after that short stretch of Woodland we come out into open Countryside again and the surface although wet in places does start to improve And we reach the gate on the far side that enforces the permit scheme permits are available to recognized 4×4 organizations like the Green Lane Association and local Land Rover clubs um so they can be got from the County Council but as I said they don’t apply
To bikes now you see there’s a few properties along the lane here so the surface is much better as we reach the final stage the lane is 1.75 km in length and that’s measured from the first gate um that’s where the byway officially starts and leads down to a junction with some tarmac
Roads the surface throughout as mentioned is an unsealed metal one the lane ends at two Tomac Road straight ahead is Luton white Hill and only 270 M up that is offley byway 51 which is the subject of video h104 the road crossing straight across is called Lily
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1 Comment
Interesting use of permits, I've never seen that before. We could do with a system like that where I live to stop the fly-tippers.