That one that drops down from that place by that other place next to the mast, there’s an old quarry near the bottom, but the bits through the gulleys off the moor leading into the trees are the best. There’s a bouldery bit near the old quarry entrance, It’s like riding over babies heads & goes on for ages & the beauty is that it changes every time there’s a downpour!
The “secret” singletrack that Goes into, and out of, the cliff face above Armstrong house. or…
The nutcracker, in summer, in full, from the old fort. or…
Yogurt pots circa 1999, or…
Rangers path circa 2000 or…
Cadair Idris long desent or…
South downs “special” descent from whiteways, or…
The trail I finished putting in today, or…
Descending Pen Y Ghent in the 3 Peaks race on a cross bike with cantis and 33m tyres. Knackered after 4 hours of racing, trying to avoid the other riders who are on the way up and spectators. Nothing like it.
Kinlochleven grey mare’s tail descent- destroys me every time but it is just relentlessly amazing. And better in the wet to boot.
(er- I might have the wrong name actually! The one they always use in the races, go up the mamore lodge road then turn right up the path that leads up the other side of the valley. The one with the countless lines, all of which are horrible)
The one you’re not expecting in the middle of the ride, quite fast but enough technical rocks to mind your speed. You clean one tricky bit and grin from the pleasure and you roll straight into the next..
Not including the countless fantastic cheeky trails that the good people of this country have made (list suddrnly gets a lot smaller)…then I reckon the best iv done is the descent from Grizedale Pike down Sleet How.
Has to be a perfect summers day and midweek with no one on it for it to win though. It really has everything…terryfying heart in mouth steep, gnarly, exposed, ‘am i going to die’ at the top…twisty flowy single track at the bottom and views to die for all the way. Yep that’s definately the one for me. Hike a bike up but the best ones usually are and 100% ridable down. Do whiteless and skidaw on the same day for the win
That’s the one.
Top tip. At 7:57 in the video, where the guy briefly looks left, you need to turn left there. If you don’t you end up in some poor old guys garden.
One of my all-time favourites is the trail formerly known as mangrove in the Surrey Hills. it’s on private land where MTB riders are not tolerated but it’s lovely, has a bit of everything.
I too missed the turning on the Achneshellach descent and ended up heaving my bike over a fairly high fence just as – yes you have guessed it– one of the 6 trains a day appeared.I dived into the bushes on the other side and skulked