Live near Kidderminster, done the Wyre Forest to death, willing to travel an hour or two.
Need wide trails for a 2 hour ish ride somewhere different - your suggestions please! Preferable somewhere fairly scenic and off road.
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Where can I take my lad out in the trailer over Christmas?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Malvern Hills?
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The trails over the Malverns can be a bit narrow in places making it tricky to work out a route.
Has anyone taken a trailer around Ladybower/Derwent? Are there any motorbike catchers on those trails?
Cannock is the other idea but a bit dull for the little one
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Mortimer Forest, Ludlow - plenty of fireroad for the trailer, nice scenery and never too busy.
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yep I did ladybower from the Fairholmes around derwent & Howden. My oldest, at the time was 5ish & on his own bike - a heavy steel Giant MTX.
When we got somewhere on the far side of Howden he was too tired to continue so I stuffed him in the trailer with his bro & carried his bike in one hand the rest of the way - very hard but these things have to be done.
Some other options if you want northern options are:
trans pennine trail - west to east is slightly downhillpennine bridleway - heading north from here is slightly uphill all the way - turn back when evere or at the cafe.
glasson docks makes a nice start, head north to lancaster and then east up the river Lune. Glasson is nice too.
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Tissington Trail / High Peak Trail etc. have quite nice views, and appear to attract people with trailers (mainly nice and wide). They are down at the south of the Peak District. Tissington Trail starts from Ashbourne, is that within an hour or two's drive from you?
If you do the High Peak Trail, I would start somewhere up the top (Middleton Top or somewhere) and not go down the inclines towards Cromford, as they are jolly steep even without a trailer to pull up them. It is pretty exposed and windy in parts if the weather is bad, but if the weather is good, you get great views.
Those trails are very well set up for family cycling, flat, wide, traffic free (except for all the walkers and cyclists obviously) and with a fair number of cake stops on them.
Joe
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Tissington trail, high peak trail and manifold way or a combination of these are good options for biking with a trailer. We did a nice loop down tissington, along national cycle route 54a then back up the high peak trail to the start. Think it's known as the Tissington triangle. The route round carsington water is nice enough too, although maybe shorter than you want
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