Peaks is good but I yearn for more percentage singletrack no matter what quality..
Whats Guisburn like now? Boggy or worth the visit?
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Gisburn- Worth the visit lately? (I miss singletrack) :o(
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Its very dry, but not the best trail centre imo...
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Problem is nothing much is nearish to me? Penmachno is just too far at 2hrs each way and Llandegla isn't worth the 1hr10min each way.
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Gisburns still being built. New bits going in north of the Downhill bit, I think. Hully Gully is finished for definite. Yesterday it turned into a yellow puddled mess of disintegrating slippiness but it will be reet with a bit of sun, which came today, so should be alright by tomorrow.
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Saw the STW mag article a while back with the cracking Irish(?) looking pub staff handing a drink to a female rider.....corrrr
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*facepalms*
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It's pretty dry, new bit with some log rides due to open in a couple of weeks then we're going to try and bypass a large chunk of fireroad with some new singletrack.
Definitely better riding than Llandegla (but then I would say that wouldn't I).
What about Lee / Cragg Quarry. It's a good 2 - 3 hour loop now if you link the two quarries together, longer if you play more, also very very dry.
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At risk of being shot, I don't like Lee Quarry. I can't put my finger on it but (for me) Only one bit back down to the carpark flows. The rest just feels stilted and disjointed.
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cracking Irish(?) looking pub staff handing a drink to a female rider.....corrrr
Ah, someone else noticed that too - didn't she look like some beautiful ghost with a tragic past out of a gothic novel? Must remember the name of that hotel...
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I don't like Lee Quarry. I can't put my finger on it but (for me) Only one bit back down to the carpark flows.
Get over to Cragg Quarry then, very different, much more flow.
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Is it easy enough to ride between Lee Quarry and Cragg Quarry now then? Got a spare day in the area in July and was thinking of either Lee/Cragg or Gisburn (too lazy to map read for one day, and a couple of laps of Lee on its own isn't long enough)
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Get over to Cragg Quarry then, very different, much more flow.
Aye, Cragg Quarry is brilliant and has lots of flow...
...you have to pedal though! ;))
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Hora - When you thinking of going up there?
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pixelmix
at the moment it's not too bad, bit boggy for a few yards in the middle but I managed to ride it all last time I was there. The official link won't be put into the Autumn but if you leave Lee Quarry on the terrace at the back right, you'll see a rocky track leading off to the left which rapidly becomes singletrack. Follow this to the burnt out Landrover (heading away from Cragg), turn right and you'll pick up a sheeptrack, follow this, drop down a bit with a wall on your right, then stay high to avoid the boggy bit. Go through a couple of gates and then follow the double track to Rooley Moor road.
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Ah, someone else noticed that too - didn't she look like some beautiful ghost with a tragic past out of a gothic novel?
Aye! SPOT ON is what I thought. A ye-old romantic looking lady to boot.
Ok, just back. On Hully Gully- why is the second section of big berms covered in loose aggregate? ...bit unnerving especially going into that slighlty steepish rocky roll in
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Because we haven't had much rain since it was resurfaced and people kept riding it while it was bedding in despite loads of barriers and tape.
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Ah ok. There wasn't any barriers/tape to day (for the record)
Best bit (for me) is always the subtle bits on a trail- one of the last sections of trail where the blue also shares with the red- that leads into two small wooden bridges....the first section of that really flows and was a hoot!
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Delamere
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No you're fine now, Hully Gully officially reopenned a couple of weeks ago.
That section of the blue is good, I particularly like the S berm in the middle. Ed Oxley uses it for training as well.
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That section of the blue is good, I particularly like the S berm in the middle.
= Sublime.
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Thanks for the info SJ - will take an OS map and try to figure it own over the summer. Will have to see if I can fit in a wee Gisburn ride some other time too.
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