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  • One afternoon to kill with 7 Stanes… which one?
  • no_eyed_deer
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    I have an interview in Dundee, so was thinking of spending time on the way back down soooth at one of the 7 Stanes, but which one?

    Glentress looks to be ‘The Best’, from the website, but perhaps STW will have different ideas?

    FWIW – I tend to prefer XC-flowy trails with big climbs, a few rocky jumps and fast swoopy bits. Slow, steep, rocky tech gives me the cold sweats.

    Cheers! 😀

    andermt
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    based on your preferences Glentress will be about right.

    joeelston
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    I think you have described Glentress nicely! Red top blue bottom is an amazing run.

    tmb467
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    Or Innerleithen black route

    Edit: which is mostly red anyway

    no_eyed_deer
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    Cheers for replies – it’s the most on-the-way-home riding area anyway, so will be ideal 😀

    ti_pin_man
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    kirroughtree is better imho but glentress has a nice set of facilities which make it more enjoyable.

    bones76
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    Kirroughtree is the best of the staines for me IMO!!!

    stilltortoise
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    Kirroughtree is the best of the staines for me IMO!!!

    M’eh. I found it a bit underwhelming, but then crashed badly and didn’t end up getting all the way round 😆

    prawny
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    I didn’t think Kirroughtree was that much better than the Chase IMO of course.

    Northwind
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    I love Kirroughtree but some of the best bits are slow rocky stuff, and the OP’s basically described Glentress. KT’s a bit out of the way too, coming down from Dundee (well, so is GT but not as bad)

    robgclarkson
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    I vote Mabie… anyone with me?

    richmtb
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    I’d go with Glentress too.

    It has the best variety of any of the 7 Stanes and mid week it will be nice and quiet too

    ahwiles
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    if you do end up at Glentress, you’ll probably ride the red route.

    when you’ve finished, ride back up to, and past, the top car park – like before.

    ride around the outside of the skills-park, like before.

    but instead of forking right to start the red singletrack, keep going along the gravel road for a couple of minutes.

    and ride the blue descents back to the cafe (look out on your left for the start of ‘blue velvet’)

    seriously, don’t over-look the blue trails, so much fun for so little height!

    timc
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    Kirroughtree, inners, glentress, Dalbeattie in that order for me

    Cant go wrong with any really

    Northwind
    Full Member

    ahwiles is spot on, Glentress’s blues are brilliant. the highest section (whose name I forget) isn’t that good but everything lower down is good and some of it’s fantastic.

    One of the best things about glentress is expandability- do a lap, play on the jumps, do the blues, maybe do mini-laps of the red and black stuff halfway round (matrix/wormhole/bitch/xx/lombard/pie run/mushroom pie, repeat to fade), and so on. Can be as big or as small a day as you want with very little actual repitition.

    joeelston
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    Berm baby berm without the use of brakes is mtb heaven 🙂 IMO

    Trekster
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    If you do go to GT treat yourself to a drive down the Beef Tub road to Moffat and rejoin the M74/6 😆

    Ae is easiest to get to 💡

    Drumlanrig is also within striking distance 🙂

    doubledunter
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    Berm baby berm without the use of brakes is mtb heaven IMO

    😯

    ahwiles
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    joeelston – Member

    Berm baby berm without the use of brakes is mtb heaven IMO

    and you can walk/cycle back to the top in about 2 minutes!

    who ever designed it is an actual genius.

    joeelston
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    I just do that 20 times in a row now! Who needs the rest of Glentress 😉

    cazum
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    inners red xc got it all for you too!

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