Cycling

General
    Cyclists will find many encouragements in the area. A lot of the countryside is quite flat, there are plenty of quiet lanes as alternatives to the main roads and a few cycle ways are beginning to appear.

    Leisure cyclists will enjoy some pleasant scenic routes and A-to-B riders will benefit from good connections with neighbouring areas and the National Cycle Network using routes 90 and 91.

    Lancashire County Council has produced a number of excellent leaflets about cycling. They include :

    'Lancashire Cycleway'
    'Cycle Rides in West Lancashire'
    'Pennine Cycleway'
    Cycling Maps of Ormskirk and Skelmersdale
    'Bowland by Bike'
    A range of leaflets on basic cycling information.

    They can be obtained from L.C.C. information centres and on-line.

    Leaflets about cycling in other areas include :

    'Walking and Cycling Guide to Sefton's Natural Coast'
    'The Yorkshire Dales Cycleway'
    'The Transpennine Trail'

    Southport is now a 'Cycling Town' and has produced a useful website : www.southportcycletown.gov.uk

Websites

Bicycle Doctor -  www.bicycledoctor.co.uk

Cycle campaigning in action - www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk

Cycle maintenance - bicycletutor.com

Cycling projects in the north-west - www.cycling.org.uk

Cyclists' Touring Club - www.ctc.org.uk

Advice from a master cycle mechanic - sheldonbrown.com

Sustrans - the national cycleway network  - www.sustrans.org.uk