Fleet Moss Climb from Oughtershaw

A road that simply has to be ridden if only to boast that you've ridden Yorkshire's highest road. The top of it is 602 metres above sea level.

Unfortunately the surface isn't great, especially not near the entrances and exits to the roadside farms, so that's probably why the Tour de Yorkshire et al haven't taken this road. Also it's really narrow so hopefully you won't meet any traffic.

It's steep, beautiful, with a flattish section about 2/3 of the way up before it ramps back up. There's the usual debate about which approach is harder (Buckden–Hawes, or Hawes-Buckden), and leaving from Hawes tends to come out on top as the hardest option. Nice descent if you do the easy side though! It's steeper from Hawes but quite a straight line so nice to pick up speed.

The initial kick up at 17% is merely a loosener for what lies the other side of a flatter road that picks its way through farm buildings before revealing a featureless landscape scarred by a single strip of tarmac

Definitely a fun descent into Hawes - be wary though, the surface isn't great, and the gradient means you can easily exceed 50 mph. Passing through a line of potholes at such speeds was slightly disconcerting.