The ‘Ayrshire Alps’ are situated in South Ayrshire, nestled at the north end of the Galloway Forest Park. The area is popular with road cyclists for the abundance of hill climbs nestled among a fantastic network of quiet roads and trails.
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"Where are the Ayrshire Alps?"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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In a marketing man's head perhaps.
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That's GREAT!! Who can I pay in order to ride them????
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Seems to have worked - bonda wants to pay and a guy called Martyn ( funny way to spell that first name if you ask me) likes it on their website.
Not bad for south Ayrshire council tho.
Loch Doon is an interesting place with bomber aircraft submerged beneath the waves. Loch Doon doesn't get a route, the rest are all in the GallowAy Forest. You can get the train to Girvan and use it as your base. Girvan has seen better days, but wildings restaurant is not bad.
Correction Loch Doon does get its own ride on an almost off road route accessible on 700x 23 tyres in the summer months.??? You have to scroll down toughened of the section entitle The Climbs
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Interesting - I had no idea there was good road riding down there (no audaxes go there, after all). Might just be worth a visit, especially with these custom "physical Strava segments" they're putting in...
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I like the map. Need a Col de Climpy variation. (Lanarkshire Rockies?)
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It is good to see a Local Authority looking to cycle tourism as a means of regenerating the local economy, if this catches on Scotland could become a cycle friendly Nation after all...
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I have linked up all the minor west Lothian and Lanarkshire roads in my head taking in bings, open cast mines, auchengray, the Mud Road (farmer painted sign that said MUD ON ROAD, then two miles later in same hand STILL MUD) Wilsontown, Braehead, Carnwath apple pie. Colin's climpy route all in the mix. Rural but industrial at the same time. The whole area must have been more heavily populated. Some old timers were telling me of an abandoned village.
South Ayrshire have linked up various villages within one local authority. The site is slightly better than the actuality but Barr is a very nice village. Loch Doon maybe in East Ayrshire hence it being buried deep in the website.
West Lothian could definitely do same for Bathgate Alps, Linlithgow, Torphicen, Blackness etc, if they haven't already
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Judging by what I've mapped out, there's whole swathes of Lanarkshire that disappeared under open cast. It must have been some sight in the mid-1800s, dotted all over with little coal mines and pit villages, plenty of which had no real road access but were served by railways snaking here, there and everywhere across the moors.
I've always meant to turn off the roads at some point and head out towards some of the bings to explore.
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Last time out on the mud road from auchengray to Wilsontown there was a random area of a field that had been barricaded in a square shape. On closer inspection seemed to be collapsed ventilation shaft. There used to be a world going on under the ground as Tom waits said
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