Route guidesRoutes Map
Mobile appApp Log in
We'll be rebuilding our city guides in 2025. For now, we hope you find them useful but we suggest you double-check any details that might have changed.

Journey Planner

Plan a route from: To:
Share your knowledge.
Help fellow Leicester cyclists »

TraveloguesPost

None posted yet. Be the first.

Local routesPost

C2W 4mi Sat 19 Jul
Fez to Cinema 3mi Thu 17 Jul
C34End 2mi Wed 16 Jul
MoleOption2 1mi Thu 10 Jul
StokesFosse 2mi Wed 18 Jun
Sainsburys 6mi Sat 7 Jun
evington 1mi Wed 23 Apr
RomanRide 3mi Tue 15 Apr
Arran 4mi Sun 6 Apr
RideToLight 2mi Thu 6 Mar

What's your favourite route across town? Post it here and share the secret with other local cyclists.

Days Out

Weekend rides

Find somewhere to cycle this weekend. Here’s our route-planner’s top picks around Leicester:

The Gate Hangs Well, Syston · 13mi round-trip
View route ★★★

The Hammer and Pincers, Wymeswold · 32mi round-trip
View route ★★

The Crown, Old Dalby · 37mi round-trip
View route ★★

View all routes (9) | About these routes

National Cycle Network

Cycle routes in Leicester

The National Cycle Network is a great way to find traffic-free routes and quiet lanes. These routes pass through Leicester:

To Burton upon Trent, Swadlincote, Oakham, Stamford, Peterborough, Whittlesey, March and Wisbech.

To Rickmansworth, London, St Albans, Harpenden, Luton, Leighton Buzzard, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Market Harborough, Loughborough, Shepshed, Derby, Nottingham, Worksop and Sheffield.

Knowledge

Share your tips for cycling in Leicester

What are the roads like? Which are the most cycle-friendly cafés? Where’s your favourite place for a Saturday afternoon spin? Share your knowledge with other local cyclists.

Add a posting

A note on our PDF maps

30 Oct 2022 · 2

When you’re planning a route, cycle.travel has always offered the option to export a print-ready PDF in one of several scales. PDF maps are great as a fallback for electronic…

cycle.travel now has Ordnance Survey maps

2 Apr 2021 · 4

Ordnance Survey maps are justly famed for their clear, detailed coverage of the British countryside. Generations of cyclists have planned their adventures with an OS map or two stuffed in…

Plan multi-day adventures easily

22 Mar 2021 · 13

Dreaming of getting away on a bike trip this summer? cycle.travel’s new multi-day planning feature is here for you! For any journey of 50km or more, you can simply add…

Enter to search, Esc to cancel