The activity of riding unsealed roads brings a certain type of pleasure. The physicality of passing through the countryside, feeling the air, smelling the scents, enjoying an immersive experience with a sense of exploration and a limited level of challenge, all bring something unique to the activity. Think of it as rambling, mountain biking or horse riding – just on motorcycles!

The overriding prevalence of sealed roads in the UK has created the general misunderstanding that any highway, road, track, trail that is not sealed must therefore be a path. This is not the case. Across the world, unsealed roads vastly outnumber sealed roads, even in ‘developed’ countries such as Australia or Canada. In the UK, following the invention of tarmacadam, the sealed road network was rapidly developed in the early 20th century, but there remain thousands of miles of unsealed roads.

It’s worth clarifying that the vast majority of Green Roads were built for motorised traffic, having been created or improved after motorised road transport was invented, their development having been driven by successive legislation in the 19th century which sought for all roads to be built for motor vehicles.