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  • 12 hours, Donnington Park, Derby
  • 40mpg
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    I’m dropping a daughter & friends at Donnington Park for the Download festival on Saturday, for the day.

    So I’ve got about 12 hours free to do… anything.

    Is it worth taking the bike – is there any decent riding within about half an hour of Donnington?

    Posted 10 years ago
    M1llh0use
    Free Member

    cannock is about 45 mins away.

    Posted 10 years ago
    hammerite
    Free Member

    Cannock isn’t too far, or Sherwood or the Peaks. You may get stuck in traffic for a while though which will extend the usual travel times to those places.

    Posted 10 years ago
    fatalbert
    Free Member

    I was there yesterday doing a bit of work. If you don’t already know they is a specific drop off pick up area near the airport especially for the festival. Look out for the yellow signs directing you. The site looked impressive and well planed out, I even had the chance to attend but work are sending me on a course this weekend.

    Posted 10 years ago
    sprocker
    Free Member

    Robin Wood/ticknall is not far away 5 (minutes in the car) there is a loop round there and a few jumps in the woods.

    Posted 10 years ago
    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    The motor museum there is good for a couple of hours.

    Posted 10 years ago
    alexpalacefan
    Full Member

    6 hrs to get away from the site, 6 hrs to get back 😉
    APF

    Posted 10 years ago
    MadPierre
    Full Member

    This is very short but just down the road: http://www.nationalforest.org/visit/index.php?control=main&action=location&LocationId=3297

    Posted 10 years ago
    danrandon
    Free Member

    plenty of riding within 15 mins drive, I live at Coalville and know plenty of great spots drop me a pm with your details and i’ll furnish you with some more info

    Posted 10 years ago
    40mpg
    Full Member

    Cheers Dan, sent you an email 😀

    Posted 10 years ago
    danrandon
    Free Member

    Cheers Dan, sent you an email

    not had anything as yet

    Posted 10 years ago
    danrandon
    Free Member

    done a little google map for you

    http://goo.gl/maps/ywh8d

    Posted 10 years ago
    jsync
    Full Member

    Or go to Download, the Saturday lineup is amazing…….

    Posted 10 years ago
    40mpg
    Full Member

    Wow! Cheers Dan, thats a really ace guide. Should manage a nice little tour round the area with that 😀

    ps tried the email in your member details but it bounced back

    Posted 10 years ago
    iain1775
    Free Member

    Robin woods ticknall ride (see stw trail guide) is rideable straight from donnington park, offroad link via Sustrans path and canal
    Email me and I can send a map with improvements to the stw ride
    Or drive top side of derby plenty riding round ambergate, Crich, black rocks
    I would show you round but can’t do Saturday mornings until about 2pm

    Posted 10 years ago
    40mpg
    Full Member

    Thanks all, I did the Ticknall STW route but spent about an hour exploring Robin Woods (and dodging the downpour). Some nice built-up runs in there, but weirdly no tire tracks whatsoever – all the jumps in good nick like they’d just been finished but never ridden. Weird, and a little spooky.

    Rest of the route was quite pleasant and not too taxing which was great as I’ve got a stinking cold. Dropped onto the Cloud Trail after, headed up towards Derby then back down and round the bottom of Staunton Harold reservoir for about 6 hours on the bike.

    Skulked around the services on the M1 eating everything in sight, read Cycling Weakly (sic) cover to cover then picked the kids up halfway through Iron Maiden as they had gone hypothermic (teenage girls in short shorts d’oh – you can’t tell ’em).

    Home around 1am so not a bad day all told!

    Posted 10 years ago
    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    Robins Wood is an odd one, the building goes in phases, every few years there seems to be a flurry of building, trails get cleared, the big* double gets built up, the burnt out remains of raves get tidied up and it gets busy.

    Then either the FC flatten it as they don’t own it (Parish council does and is run by a load of bike hateing ramblers) or it just falls into disrepair again.

    *relative, you might have found it in a clearing, usualy surrounded/filled by the remains of camp fires.

    Posted 10 years ago
    danrandon
    Free Member

    Glad you found the map handy. Robin wood takes a while to explore properly.

    Posted 10 years ago
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