Sadly, both Crazy legs and Badly wired dog are mildly insane,
Says you with your weird tandem fetish… To be fair, it’s a good route either way round. If you go up the Ladder, you get a long, long, rocky descent with optional ace singletrack down to Kinder Res – though it’ll be a quagmire at the moment – plus at the Rushup end of things, you can always add a bonus descent of Chapel Gate’s interesting alpine boulder field…
Roych heading down towards Hayfield is getting more interesting again btw, lots of 4×4-created destruction appearing and it’ll only get better over winter, plus with some ingenuity and effort you can add a couple of neat loops over the Hayfield side of things.
Going up the Ladder, even pushing, has the merit of letting you see just how hard it would be to ride it cleanly going up, especially the steep top section.
Anyway, whichever way you go, Rosie’s cafe, the new-ish place on Kinder Road at the village end of things, serves lovely cake and doesn’t mind gritty mountain bikers at all.
Would offer to join you on Sunday, but we’re off on a ‘Not The Tour of the Peak’ cafe road ride – aim is to spend the £27 each entry fee we’ve saved by not doing the Tour of the Peak on cake, taking in as many Peak District caffs as possible.