Riding Englands Longest Green Lane | Rudland Rigg

Englands longest green lane is widely accepted to be the Rudland Rigg, up in Yorkshire. Once a medieval horse track on a ridge line, the longest green lane is as close to 10 miles as you can make it. Rudland Rigg is a simple, non-technical track. it might even sound boring, but it really isn't.
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[@motocamel]

Wow guys you really nailed it with this video. Love the narration, music, slowmo shots and the sun setting.

[@lightweightadv]

Cool, thanks dude. We tried something new, glad you enjoyed it 😎👌🏻

[@richardeaton1544]

As a relative newbie to offroad, I loved riding Rudland Rigg a few weeks ago. Stunning views and nothing too tricky meant I was able to get my confidence and figure out better body positioning etc. Having ridden it one way and then back again, my offroad confidence and skills improved massively in just a couple of hours 👍

[@lightweightadv]

Nic one, this is exactly what it's great for 👊🏻😎

[@richardeaton1544]

@@lightweightadv cheers. Also, about half way across Rudland Rigg there is a crossroads with trickier sections both East and West (Monket Bank from memory). Plus nearby Glaisdale Rigg so a great location for a days playing 👍

[@brianrussellbrd]

Great to meet you guys in person on Friday morning at the MCN bike show. I hope your talks went well. Really looking forward to joining you in the summer at your rally and the ride up from Hythe in Kent. Keep up the good work! This vid was brill!

[@lightweightadv]

Thanks for coming by Brian, see you again in July 👍🏻

[@cunawarit]

This looks like a beautiful and easy going lane to enjoy slowly and take it all in 👍

[@lightweightadv]

Yeah it really is, take you time and enjoy 😎

[@AndrewSmith-hy8gl]

Absolutely stunning, thank you so much chaps - perfect adventure 😃👍

[@lightweightadv]

Thanks bud, the scenery was picture perfect 👌🏻

[@TheHunty13]

Gentlemen, what a video! If this is a sign of what is to come in the new year, we’re all in for a treat! Love the style of this one, & made me super hungry to get on the trails and ride!

[@lightweightadv]

Ah thanks buddy, yeah we enjoyed putting this together and trying something new, glad it worked 👌

[@KrisMOTO23]

Rudland rigg underwent a huge amount of maintainence a few years ago and made it essenitally easy mode, they dragged all the larger loose boulders to the edges and dag drainage ditches down the side of the trail becuase it used to flood and turn in to massive muddy pits, it was ace. back in the day the last section was like a huge rock staircase was could be quite tricky, some of the steps were like a foot high, ive come accross people way out of their element on that bit back then, but it actually quite a relaxing ride now on a summer evening it great. I find it best ridden north to south and if you hit the speed bumps fast enough they are quite good jumps :D

[@lightweightadv]

Ah, that explains a lot actually, we had heard of the steps, but when we got there, they were gone! Yep, really great lane, lots of fun. Even managed to get the CRF in the air at one point 👌🏻

[@garethowen61]

That’s a great film, you nailed it!👍

[@lightweightadv]

Cheers Gareth, glad you enjoyed it mate 😎

[@chriscooperCRF300]

Fantastic video, really enjoyed that chaps. I see your both growing in skill and technique 👌🏼 Only picked up your channel a few weeks ago and I have now watched them all 🙂 Hopefully meet you chaps at your festival 👍🏼👍🏼

[@lightweightadv]

Hey Chris, welcome to the team, really pleased you enjoyed it and thanks for the kind words Ah great stuff you're coming to the festival 👌 yes we will absolutely meet up and have a beer 🍻

[@robgreaves2633]

It’s a grouse shooting butt - they’ll normally be 9 of them in a line and its where the guns will shoot from when shooting grouse on the moor

[@lightweightadv]

Oohhh, that makes a lot of sense 👌🏻

[@daviddiluvicusor]

Rudland Rigg, will put it on the list. Good health and Enjoy 2023

[@lightweightadv]

Worth the trip up there mate. Thanks, same to you 🙂👌🏻

[@LEAHBOSS999]

Great video again lads, think that’s a grouse shooting butt you were in btw

[@lightweightadv]

Thanks David! Yeah, we have since learned its a shooting butt 😅

[@jgordoncooper7112]

Excelent! As you say, Sublime.

[@lightweightadv]

Ah, thanks man. Really pleased you enjoyed it 👌🏻

[@colinlow1167]

Fosse Way near Tetbury and Malmesbury ~11miles

[@lightweightadv]

Oh really? 🤔 Maybe need to give that a go then, do you recommend it?

[@lightweightadv]

Also do you have a grid for it?

[@colinlow1167]

@@lightweightadv It is near me so I use it all the time to keep in shape :-) The nearest map point to the north end is Cotswold Airport, and it runs SW in a dead straight line (its a Roman Road) in the direction of Bath. It's not technical, apart from a large ford across the Avon, which you can bypass (I've seen a few drowned bikes there). There's another lane, the Macmillan Way, which extends it a few more miles - narrow, rutted in parts. Both are on the TET.

[@lightweightadv]

Ah great stuff, sounds good we should pay it a visit at some point, thanks for the information 👌 😎

[@Bowlin01]

Woah! Fancy music, slomo and well composed camera shots......who are you and what have you done with the real Lightweigh Adventurers 🤣😂🤣. Nice one chaps 👍

[@lightweightadv]

🤣🤣 thanks buddy, thought we would try something a little different this time 😎

[@cooper1258]

Great ride that's easily doable on big bikes with 100% road tyres particularly in summer. Only one steepish section at the southern most point

[@lightweightadv]

Yeah totally agre, it's a lovely lane that you can just go and enjoy 😎

[@gnarlybadger690]

Nicely filmed

[@lightweightadv]

Thanks Peter 👍

[@SteveInskip]

Great vid guys. I’ll give him 5.8 for the ‘dismount’ at the end although not up to Jurgen Klinsmann levels yet! 😂 The UK has some of the most ‘technical’ byways based on the fact that nobody maintains them so the surfaces get worse and worse until the local council either repairs them (😂😂😂😂) sorry, had to have a laugh there, or closes them. Nice to see one with a decent surface and thanks for that. I’d love to have a go on that one!

[@lightweightadv]

It was the flourish at tye end that cynched it. You ah, it's a tightrope between "maintaining" / regrading lanes and leaving them be. If they're a road, as they all are in a way, they have work from time to time 🤷🏻‍♂️. You should definitely take a ride up there, it's a beautiful place

[@SteveInskip]

@@lightweightadv I take your point, but you do need a licence, road tax and insurance to ride all of them so they should be classed as roads, metalled or not. Regrading them and closing them is far too easy for me. Actually they are hardly bothering to repair the village roads nowadays so my hope will no doubt be in vain. Anyway, keep at it guys and keep working on the dismounts! If you could put an ‘in-air’ twist in there somewhere you’d get a perfect 6. 😉😂👍

[@taylorphilip5499]

Big bike friendly

[@lightweightadv]

Yep, totally 👌🏻

[@CarparkCarl]

Have you considered SalterFell in Lancashire? A little more technical but not much. Similar sort of distance I believe.

[@lightweightadv]

Hmm, we didn't 🤔. Perhaps that's one to go on the list. Thanks Carl 👍🏻

[@CarparkCarl]

@@lightweightadv I am in the area of salter if you guys want company 👍

[@ronpranglen5287]

Been on longer ones over the mountains in Wales but hated the slate, a puncture waiting to happen if you're using tubes !

[@lightweightadv]

We need to get back to Wales...we love the slate!

[@theskiband-ur3tw]

Is this dooable for a rank amateur (off-road) rider on a big fat old air-cooled 1200GS? 😊

[@lightweightadv]

Absolutely. Just be aware it's much steeper at one end than the other (depending on which direction you ride it obviously)

[@theskiband-ur3tw]

Thanks mate. Yeah I’d rather do it north to south. I gather there’s a track going west about half way along that makes for an easier way if you go south to north.

[@mykheaton]

It's not boring coming down it on a big bike, I'm sure two of the ACT riders fell off there on the new ACTUK route :)

[@lightweightadv]

Ha, yeah, I can imagine. It definitely wasn't boring, regardless of the difficulty. Would definitely like to re-ride it on a larger adv bike. Perhaps in the new year 😎👌🏻

[@mykheaton]

@lightweightadv you could spend a good day riding the lanes around there, I've spent a lifetime on the roads looking for cake too lol

[@lightweightadv]

We easily could have. But we live over 100 miles away, so transit times limited our riding a little. In the summer...

[@thra5herxb12s]

It's long, but there's no variety in the surroundings. I still want to ride it though.

[@lightweightadv]

In a few ways, that's kinda the appeal 🤷🏻‍♂️. Definitely ride it 👍🏻

[@acoupleofthreethings3249]

When did you ride this?

[@lightweightadv]

Only around a week ago 😎

[@acoupleofthreethings3249]

@@lightweightadv Cheers for the reply 👍

[@PureEvolution]

I thought this lane was closed to motor vehicles

[@lightweightadv]

Not the times we've ridden it. Always worth checking for TROs of course, but it's normally open

[@PureEvolution]

@@lightweightadv this was years ago i'm talking about great news got a nice new tiger 1200 rally pro that would be nice to head there with thank you for letting me know

[@xenolard]

The ridge way in Wiltshire is 87 miles long

[@lightweightadv]

Oh wow, now that sounds like a chunk of mileage! Is that a single Greenlane or a collection of them?

[@boboneleg]

Not legal to ride all of it though and other parts are restricted to certain times of the year.

[@garethjohnstone9282]

Ridland Rug sounds better lol.

[@lightweightadv]

I have one of those in the lounge I think 🤔

[@markfromleeds]

i have a 3 episode video on my channel on the rutland rig and the surrounding lanes, there are much more technical bits to it, id love for you to take a look and give me your opinion on my videos, cheers MFL

[@lightweightadv]

Hey Mark. Yeah, we rode the steps down hill and then up hill. They reminded us a little of the Peaks, but then again, we love a rocky climb, it's what we learned to ride on. I'll take a look dude 😎👌🏻

[@markfromleeds]

@@lightweightadv excellent thank you. 🤜🤛

[@maverickthebastard]

The grid references you provide in the video are incorrect, they are for Derbyshire and Chesire start and finish. Should be SE not SK. Great guys and great content.......thank you.