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  • Rain proof trail centres
  • mancalledaaron1
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    Tbh I dint like muddy riding conditions.
    What trail centres or areas can you recommend that are largely mud free?

    rOcKeTdOg
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    🙂

    genesiscore502011
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    Dartmoor and Exmoor

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    unklehomered
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    Marin was pretty good.

    Stainburn gets good feedback for wet weather conditions, and it’s built with that always in mind.

    esselgruntfuttock
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    Swaledale, ‘puddly’ but not muddy.

    Oh wait….

    Rorschach
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    There’s no mud on Penmachno.

    grahamt1980
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    Mud at Penmachno? Never heard of it.
    Go ride there, it’s perfect when raining too

    timidwheeler
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    Penmachno- cleanest trail centre there is.

    jsync
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    Whinlatter

    P-Jay
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    You will very rarely find mud at any centres in South Wales, water though!

    Lap of Whites today, I’d been better off with a canoe.

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    Have you heard of Zwift?

    mancalledaaron1
    Free Member

    How about Llangollen; is it largely mud free there?
    I don’t mind a bit wet but I can’t stand slogging through the mud!

    unklehomered
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    There’s no mud on Penmachno.

    This is true, the many rivers wash it all away.
    However the entire thing is under several inches of water.

    BPW – was piss wet through yesterday and there are bits of mud and the odd slippy root, but for the majority, it’s grippy as hell

    Rorschach
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    unklehomered you gone done ruined my ruse,yer varmint!
    Also…..no trail centre in Llangollen.

    P-Jay
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    Have you heard of Zwift?

    I’d rather sandpaper my plums.

    hodgynd
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    Don’t like mud !
    Jesus I’ve heard it all now 😆
    While you are at it you might as well get the F.C.staff to go around with pumps and mops to get rid of the surface water ..

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    They should the amount they charge for parking

    & my thoughts exactly PJ.

    breadcrumb
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    Mabie handles the wet pretty well, barely a puddle.

    mancalledaaron1
    Free Member

    @ breadcrumb Mabie ? Where’s that?

    BigJohn
    Full Member

    I remember one phenomenally wet day at CYB a couple of Decembers back. One guy had his bike swept about 15 metres down a river. Approaching the trail centre we came across two raging torrents. One was a stream, the other was the trail. We initially took the wrong one.
    No mud though. The rain had washed it all away.

    hodgynd
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    Jekkyl..hold that thought when the funding for these centres dries up ..and it’s going to.. the cutbacks are already happening . 😥

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    I was a Comrie today, it was holding up well, being 90% Rock…

    kayak23
    Full Member

    I hear road biking is relatively low in mud. Tried that?

    leegee
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    Bedgebury, a big travel bike it turns it into a bore, but it holds up well in the winter.

    jkomo
    Full Member

    Coed y Brenin is fine in the pissing rain.
    In real life.

    soobalias
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    a mate rode penmachno last week and said it was fine,
    every peddle stroke and your foot came up out of the water again

    Tom_W1987
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    I remember one phenomenally wet day at CYB a couple of Decembers back. One guy had his bike swept about 15 metres down a river. Approaching the trail centre we came across two raging torrents. One was a stream, the other was the trail. We initially took the wrong one.
    No mud though. The rain had washed it all away.

    I rode that trail, then, in that pissing rain I reckon.

    Most fun I’ve ever had on a bike. Sideways rain and falling/fallen trees….not so much.

    breadcrumb
    Full Member

    @ breadcrumb Mabie ? Where’s that?

    Scottish borders, Dalbeattie is just a little further along but I’ve not ridden that in the rain to comment.

    Whinlatter is fine in the rain but very puddly.

    crazy-legs
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    Most of them hold up OK in the rain as they use a crushed gravel base rather than soil. They just get very splashy and gritty.

    Gisburn and Grizedale are both like that, they end up with some monster puddles in some of the big braking bumps but it’s not really muddy.

    Goldigger
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    Isn’t geting muddy and wet half the fun of mountain biking?
    Ask any kid.

    thenorthwind
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    ?

    chakaping
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    Isn’t geting muddy and wet half the fun of mountain biking?

    It is at the moment, as we’ve just gone from dry July to soggy August to sodden September/October.

    Another three or four months of it and the novelty will be wearing off though.

    No mention of Llandegla in this thread, I was thinking of popping over there this week. I presume it’s not horrendous after a rainy spell?

    timidwheeler
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    Llandegla should be ok. Can anyone tell me what state Innerlethern and Glentress are in?

    Sorry for the slight hijack.

    whitestone
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    I hear road biking is relatively low in mud.

    It wasn’t on Saturday in the South Lakes, jeez! I might as well have been off-road given the state of some of the lanes, at times I wasn’t sure there was even any tarmac there.

    Got back to Devil’s Bridge and overheard a cop saying they’d had loads of rain overnight and that there were lots of stranded cars due to flooding.

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    Can anyone tell me what state Innerlethern and Glentress are in?

    Scotland, but it’s not really a state.
    IGMC

    prawny
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    Cannock doesn’t have mud, just wet and grinding paste.

    Mabie is OK in the wet apart from the very end (like last 10 minutes) Dalbeatte is also 95% rocks so not muddy, and the rock is very grippy.

    hot_fiat
    Full Member

    Penmach is amazing in the rain. The aqueduct system they’ve built collects the water really well. Its a shame the trail system appears to be exactly co-located with the channels. <never been so wet anywhere, ever, even in the tropical rain forests of Queensland and Hawaii>

    Kielder works well. Has to really – they built the reservoir there for a reason.

    tomhoward
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    Glentress was good last weekend, inners was a bit greasy for my (admittedly, summer xc) tyres but certainly ridable

    Be quick if you fancy stainburn, as it’s closing for a couple of months for forestrying, if it isn’t already. Just the trail centre, not the stuff on the other side of the road.

    rocketman
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    Cannock doesn’t have mud, just wet and grinding paste.

    +1

    Enjoy riding through wet sand interspersed with shiny pebbles? Come to Cannock

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