Gravel Biking in the North Yorkshire Moors

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This ride took me deep into the heart of the North Yorkshire Moors and along the stunning Yorkshire Coast — all under the blazing sun on the hottest day of the year so far. Riding my Cervélo Áspero, I explored a mix of gravel, coastal views, and classic moorland climbs. I also took a well-earned breather at a lovely little café by the sea.

Whether you’re into gravel riding, adventure cycling, or just love seeing beautiful UK routes, this one’s for you.

📍 Location: North Yorkshire Moors & Yorkshire Coast
🚴 Bike: Cervélo Áspero
☕ Cafe Stop: Coastal café near Ravenscar

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/14147061672

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Hello and welcome to another video. So, it’s been a while since I did a video and um the weather at the moment in the UK is lovely. I’ve got a free afternoon and I’ve decided to do a bit of a gravel ride here in the North York. So, I thought why not film one. Uh so, I’ve not filmed for a while and I think the last videos that I did were the Vietnam ones. They took quite a bit of effort, but I’ve been off the filming, but I’ve been still doing a lot of cycling. And I spent another month in Spain um at the beginning of this year and that that was really good. Really enjoyed it. Been back in the UK for just over a month now and for the last month or so the weather has been amazing. But particularly this last sort of couple of weeks has been really good. Today’s about 19° so we will do this ride. Um I’m a little bit unprepared. So I um was in a bit of a rush. I’ve just thrown my camera into the car and I threw my uh mount as well into the car, which is uh here, and forgot the adapter. So, I’m just going to have to try and do this uh this video all handheld without any sort of adapters, but that should be fine. So, the route goes up through the North Yorkshire Mo um quite far to the east and then we get up towards Whitby and then we take the Cinder track back down. Like I say, 40 miles should take maybe three hours. And uh yeah, I’ve never ever done this route when it’s been completely dry. It should be a completely dry route. And I’m currently just uh chomping on a pre-ride cookie that I got from the petrol station because it was discounted. Um so yeah, on the gravel bike, the Seello, nothing has changed here. I do now have some 650B wheels that I have test ridden, but with some crappy tires that they came on that are pretty much dead. So, I’ve got some new tires to fill on that. So, I might do a video on them and explain why I’ve bought them and show you what they look like when they’re fitted to the bike, cuz I think it looks pretty cool. Anyway, let’s uh finish this cookie and get on the road. [Music] All right, we’re still on the road, which I’m surprised about. I thought it went off-road already cuz I think this is quite quite a high percentage of this ride is off-road, so can’t be much more road. But yeah, it’s about um it’s about a year exactly since I last did this ride. Um I will put an overlay on the screen of what the uh surface is. And um yeah, it’s such a beautiful day and there’s no traffic. We’re actually just kind of on the roads the other side of Dolby Forest now. And uh yeah, it’s really nice. If you want to take it back to the 50s, maybe [Music] I’m dying to work until you die. You know that’s true. [Music] So, we’re now on this kind of like dusty gravel. It’s it’s a really good surface actually and it’s unusual I’d say. So when you think of gravel in the UK you’ll think oh mud and uh like just more mountain biking like easy cross country style but it’s not at all when you’re up here. Um there’s not many places that I found that are this good. There’s here a little bit down south near Reading on the Chalkway I’ve done and of course Ke has got some amazing gravel. Um, hence dirty reverb being there. But yeah, this is uh this is good to have this on your doorstep. Very lucky. Say no. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] worry about. Maybe it’s you upside down. I like you. I think that I don’t want to put on a smile. Everybody expects me to. So, we’ve done quite a bit of climbing so far. That is the North Yorkshire moss. You can see all the heather on the moss there. You can probably Well, you probably can’t make it out, but there is like a main road there. Loads of cars. So, we have like a bit of a descent now. I’m not going to be able to film it because I don’t have the mouth mount or any way of attaching it to my bike. Um, and then yeah, then we kind of just like wiggle around and join up in Whitby and then we’ll do the cinder track. Like I said, might even stop at a cafe if we see one. There is one on the cinder track, but I think it might close before we get there. So, the bit over my shoulder down there, last time I came that was all water and it was like a ford. So, yeah, it really is dry and um very very loose on that descent. [Music] [Music] Dear suck. So I think that’s the bit through the moss done. The gravel bit at least. Now there’s a little bit of tarmac which will take us to just south of Whitby and then we jump on the cinder track and that is going to be pretty much off road all the way. Like I say, a couple of cafes on that cinder track. So see if one of them’s open. Keep your stupid job. Pretend that you’re the person you wanted to be. And you’re dying to work until you die. And you’re dying to work until you die. Dying not to work until you die or die die inside. Say no. All right, let’s just pretend I rode down those steps to the cinder track. I think this is a cinder track. I think I’m about to join it now. And uh yeah, pretty cool views. I I hope I got some of it on camera. Um I think well I know that you could see Whippby Abby in the distance. Hopefully you could see it on camera, but you never know with a GoPro. Um so yeah, let’s take the Cinder track, which is an amazing piece of infrastructure cuz it’s completely off-road. I think it’s an old railway line and it’s all gravel. Um but it might be busy cuz you know it’s some it’s um school holidays, the weather’s nice and um it’s a Friday afternoon. A lot of people don’t work on Fridays, which is a good thing. Um, so yeah, let’s see how it is. I’ll film some of it. Went to bed. Now I’m going to turn this upside down. It’s pretty quiet. Pretty lucky to get it this quiet on this nice of day. Look at this view. Insane. Where it’s going to bay in there is Robin Hood’s Bay. I think we’re just about to hit that. [Music] So yeah, it’s just a lovely ride. So yeah, let’s keep moving. [Music] you. What am I to do without you? Just passed the first cafe and it is a right off. Absolutely chocker full. There’s one more just along this road now. All right, that was a result. We got there 15 minutes before they closed. So, I had a latte, which was humongous, and a apple and spiced ginger cake, I think it was. It was very good. Um, and yeah, now we just got about 12 miles to go, but the rest of the cinder track is all downhill now. So, just a slight downhill all the way to just outside Scarra and then I’ve got about 3 miles of road to where I’ve parked which was near the forest where we started. So, yeah, just enjoy the ride back and we’ll see you back at the car. [Music] without you. I look around every corner where the part is that I’m haunted. But I keep waiting around for you to show up. We’ll go to California. But first, I’ve got to warn you. Not going anywhere without you. So just be with me. Go. [Music] We made it back. That is one fairly dusky gravel bike. Don’t know if the camera picks it up. Yeah, you should be able to see it there on the down tube. Absolutely sublime. I reckon one of the best gravel rides I’ve done in the UK. I think it’s really hard. I think I’ve done better roots. So, I think when we did Kill the Forest and did the Dirty Reaver route, um I think that’s a better ride. But the conditions today are just absolutely immense. So, I think if you could do the dirty reaver with weather like this where it’s been dry for a month and it’s just absolutely perfect, that would be better. But today was pretty good. Um, and yeah, to have this on my doorstep, pretty lucky. So, going to stuff the bike in the car, get off home. Still quite early. It’s 4:42. Let’s see how long the uh ride took. So, uh 2 hours 45 ride time. So yeah, I said 3 hours. Um it’ll be 3 hours with a cafe stop. So yeah, pretty much bang on. And uh yeah, really good route. So I’ll drop the Strava link below so you can see the ride and you can copy the route if you want to do it. And I think that’s it for this video. So please like it if you did. Please do subscribe because it helps. I’m going to try and make more videos going forward. I’ve got a few video ideas. Um I’m going back to Spain in May, so I might do some stuff in Spain as well. Um, and yeah, I think that’s it.