Just found out about a new trail centre opening in Longmynd Shropshire. There will be an onsite shop and bike hire, campsite, log cabins for hire, full shower facilities, MTB training centre, plenty of waymarked trails and they will even have an onsite pub (which is already there) that serves awesome food!
Due to open April next year, anyone fancy a STW weekend there to test them out??
Bike Forum
[closed]
New Trail Centre opening in Longmynd
-
Posted 2 years ago #
-
sounds grrreat! whats that bumley bbq at your house next april woohoo!!
Posted 2 years ago # -
So is that a yes then tails??
Posted 2 years ago # -
Oh no.....
They're not going to make all the sheep trails 5ft wide and 'all weather' everything are they?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Sounds good But whats the terrain like?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Where?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Hmmmm What Walls said
Posted 2 years ago # -
Great.
The place will soon be full of mincers on longtraveltrailbikes.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Sounds like they're expecting a few too!
Posted 2 years ago # -
will the glider field be one of the 'hazards'?
now about this BBQ?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Do they need a trail centre there or is it more to 'create more in the local economy'?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Not sure about this myself. The main reason for riding on the Mynd is that its chock full of lovely natural singletrack and always feels a little bit more remote and 'special' than places like Llandegla et al. If they are provding facilities at the 'trail head' that's one thing, but if this means (as walleater' says) that the place will end up with a 5 foot wide graded track down Minton Batch then i will be first to the 'barriers' so to speak.
And another thing
There are already plenty of guides to riding in the area and the legal trails are very well marked. You can pick up guides at the TIC and follow those. Surely thats enough?
Just my two pence worth
Posted 2 years ago # -
hora - Member
Do they need a trail centre there or is it more to 'create more in the local economy'?Isn't that what you might call a 'need' Hora?
Posted 2 years ago # -
I agree with you ikimbunza. Surely a trail centre would be better developed somewhere else like Mortimer/Bringwood or Hopton. The natural trails round the Long Mynd are why its so enjoyable, why spoil a good thing?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Can't agree more, I love the Long Mynd for it's natural unspoilt and some what remote feeling, introducing more people to the area and dare I say it the leisure riders, will only cause conflict with the army of walkers and destroy the natural trails.
Since they introduced the Kitchener Trail at Sherwood what where lovely bits of single track are now turning into boggy broken down holes with braking bumps on all the lovely berms and corners.Soon it will be a weekend procession of slower riders much like Follow the Dog.
So much for progress!Posted 2 years ago # -
5ft wide and 'all weather'
Pretty much describes all UK trail centres?
Posted 2 years ago # -
perhaps people could do it as part of the old mid shropshire wheelers sunday ride from back in the day when people rode out rather than drove out..
Start: Brooklands Pub Car Park - Meole Brace, Shrewsbury
Down the path of A49 turn off to Condover out on lanes to base of the Lawley (long grassy hill), over Lawley, then to back of Caer Caradoc
over Caradoc
into Stretton for chocolate cake, pizza and tea at the Burway Cafe
up over cardingmill valley (bikes banned now)
then either highspeed blast down the inward and back to the top again, or striaght down the other side of the mynd to Bridges.
up and over stiperstones (via stiperstone shop to buy cheap out of date snacks) then back via Eastridge to Shrewsbury to via white grit to play on the lead mine slag heaps (also gone now)
happy dayz
Posted 2 years ago # -
Which pub is it going to be based at?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Geographically seems well located
Could be good for folk who don't want to go as far as the Welsh centres
Posted 2 years ago # -
This is a horse sh1t troll thread and I claim my £5.
Posted 2 years ago # -
No-one's heard about it at the Church Stretton Tourist Info Centre
Bumley - where's your info come from?
Posted 2 years ago # -
troll.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Due to open April next year
Maybe on the 1st?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Any idea what sort of tyres I would need at Longmynd, so I can pre-order them now!
Posted 2 years ago # -
Ahhh, are you trolling bumley????
i fell for it, actually i fell for flying penguins on bbc breakfast
Posted 2 years ago # -
up over cardingmill valley (bikes banned now)
Is that kosher, or another troll?
Was up Carding Mill Valley a couple of weeks ago. Mind you it's such a **** pull up at the start of a ride that banning it might be a good idea!
Posted 2 years ago # -
I can confirm that I've heard this from a seperate source (a friend of a guy setting it up).
From what I was told they will not be creating much, if any, new trails, just improving the waymarking on the current ones. (removing or clarifying the ride uk signs for example)
I don't think they are turning the Long Mynd into CYB by any means.
Craig
Posted 2 years ago # -
How much will the lift passes be ?
Posted 2 years ago # -
<< up over cardingmill valley (bikes banned now)
Is that kosher, or another troll?
Was up Carding Mill Valley a couple of weeks ago. Mind you it's such a **** pull up at the start of a ride that banning it might be a good idea! >>
bikes are restricted at certain times - mainly when all the idiots from brum come for some fresh air (fresh air equals sitting in car looking glumly through the windscreen eating a boring sandwich - but wait with the car doors open!)
but people still use it
anyhow there are nicer quiter trails to use so you can avoid the brums..
Posted 2 years ago # -
I rode up Cardigan Valley a couple of weeks ago and there was no bike ban.
I disagree that it's a bad start to a ride - it was our 5th and last ascent of the day - and one of the worst. The little climb up to Townbrook and the tarmac up to the Glider club weren't much fun either.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I bet they wont signpost Walleaters Pro-line down Minton Be-atch.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Heh heh...good morning Scruff.
Rootes1 - that is really spooky, that's exactly what I used to do back in the day, including 'freeriding' at Snailbeach slagheaps then riding back to Shrewsbury in a bitch of a headwind most of the time. Strokes chin....
Posted 2 years ago # -
Top of the Lawley circa 1990 with Russ on his Cinder Cone:
Posted 2 years ago # -
<<I rode up Cardigan Valley a couple of weeks ago and there was no bike ban.>>
actually looking at the maps, the bit we used to go up is now footpath so insead of going up to this direct to the shooting box you now have to go right at the start of the climb on the bridleway - perhaps the other path has alway been a footpath
to be fair to by memory the old ride as described above was done some year back!
Walleater..
used to do those ride back in around the same time! from 1989/90 to 95 (on tequesta, zaskar, cannondale and a trek!)with people like ian collins, andrew titley, matt farmer, tim beardsley, tom harper, george, andy caswell, steve brindle etc occasionally dave mellor
Posted 2 years ago # -
Hmmm....I remember Caz had a Zaskar, and Matt F had some other GT for a while (including wrapping it around a tree on Ercall Wood one time...). I was the competitive climbing N@zi either on a Team Marin / Moron, Orange Clockwork or Specialized M2 Team Ed. Jumpers for goalposts / circuit training at the Tech etc....
Posted 2 years ago #
Topic Closed
This topic has been closed to new replies.
