Hey good people

Gonna be near sherwood pines tomorrow and wandering is it worth taking my bike and going for a quick blast round the red route?

I know it can get quite muddy so will it be rideable with the current conditions?

Cheers in advance
Ryan

Erm… you won’t get round the whole route. At least 4 sections were closed on Wednesday. Parts are a quagmire and not all the closures had diversions. I was rather bored by the time I gave up.

Yup the Kitchener trail sucks in the wet. The closures are ‘kin annoying too as it’s not exactly the worlds best trail but hey it’s the closest to me unfortunately. I wish I knew the off piste stuff though.

Link together the middle bits with single track and its fine. The closures are indeed a pain and not that well marked.

If you know it the Mids circuit from earlier in the year is very rideable (but short)

The bits that are closed are the least fun bits though. Went today and it was reasonable – and thought the diversions were easily followable.

I rode it for the first time, yep it’s muddy in places but come on it is November! What are people expecting? Get out there and MTFU.

As I was there late in the day only saw 2 other riders and for the most part had the trail to myself.

There’s plenty of reasonable singletrack if you open your eyes & look for it, there’s so much more to the place than the Kitchener trail.
It is possible to do 3hours+ without riding the same trail twice if you know where to go.
But in answer to your question, yes it’s all rideable, I’ve been there a couple of times in the last week & haven’t bothered putting the mud tyres on yet, still runnning Racing Ralphs.

I found some cracking singletrack on a solo night ride the other week.

The bit with the trenches (locals will know where :lol:) was well spooky, like riding in a cave.

Go and explore.

The trenches are great fun when you get them right, need to get up there again & try & keep some of the really tight rat runs open