[Closed] Anyone on here from Nottingham?

I live in Ruddington, just south of the city. Best riding is north of the city. Presume you already ride at Sherwood Pines? Some very nice stuff at Burntstump, Blidworth, Sansom woods and Gravelly Bottom as well. Bits of stuff south of city near me near Gotham.

Yeah I ride Sansom woods and Burntstump every sunday, going tomorrow at about 3:30 for a couple of hours then in the Burntstump for a nice cold Stella 🙂

Hey i'm also from Nottingham, live in Arnold, if you ever fancy a ride out let me know! I've not done that much locally only really Sherwood pines and messing about on the dh bike at Hemlock, so am always keen to try new stuff.

Cool! whats Hemlock like? what DH bike do you have?
I have a Santa Cruz Bullit and there not many close places around here, I have to go away to Wales or Dalby forest, going in may and Morzine in July hopefully can't wait!

Hi,
I'm in Edinburgh studying but normally live in wilford, Vdubber care to share any wisdom on good routes? I have ventured out from ruddington park along the gotham trail

What's the deal with Hemlock - is that the Hemlock stone? (not lived in Notts for that long you see)

Dr Adams - mail me at rtedge at hotmail.com and I'll share what little wisdom I have re south of the river riding...some good stuff ride-able from Wilford....

Hemlock Stone (Stapleford hill) is really small. The council have designated a couple of areas for mountain biking but people ride on the areas where they aren't supposed to so I think a few railings/logs will appear soon. Have a look at this link for some videos of the hemlock and some other local stuff which is probably secret.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NicoTurnerVideos&view=videos

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pimpmyride - I live in Carrington so not too far from you.

Have you explored Bestwood Country Park yet? Although not the largest of places there is some pretty good singletrack to be found if you have a good look. Its not too bad for a quick evening blast.

I live right on the very top of carlton mountain...still snow up here!

bestwood park has some good bits, its fairly small but can be linked with annesley for a 2-3 hour ride or you can do a bit further by going out to burntstump and linking the forests up for 60k plus easy. you like that one dont you twang?!

NO!! 😥

sootyandjim, Yeah I normally ride in bestwood park every saturday/sunday along with the Burntstump and sansom woods.
Think Dalby is on the cards when it starts gettingv nicer/lighter 🙂

Get in touch with Pete over at www.mountainbikerides.co.uk

Theres a bunch of good lads that ride every Saturday and every Thurs night from the Bridge Inn at Oxton.

They have great local knowledge and do lots of away rides too.

If I'm ever home (Southwell) with a bike, I drop in with them for a ride.

You live half an hour from Matlock and not much more from the Dark Peak/Sheffield. Plenty of decent riding there if you can drive.

I'm from junction 26 of the M1 (yes, I live under the bridge). The Peaks is so close, it's rude not to. Didn't realise so many people on here were from Nottingham.

Without sounding like a loner my riding buddies live miles away from me and we only get to ride together once maybe twice a month!
We have a really good bunch of lads and go to Wales every september which is the best riding ever but inbetween I fel i'm missing out 🙁

Spitting distance from J26 also! A group of us 'usually' ride on a Thursday night. However we have lapsed and it's been a while.

Another here! Mapperley.
Slowrider, interested to know what rides around Annesley??

Ilkeston here - loads of muddy bridleway between us and Nottingham -

I'm from Snottingham too born and bred and lived in most of the areas too, I don't really care what others say about the gun/drug crimes I still think it's one of the best Cities in the UK.

I agree Gravy, the stupid documentaries on the news have a lot to answer for!
I have lived here all my life and its awesome 🙂
Night life was great too when I was younger 🙂

Another Nottingham bod here, and am sometimes seen (rarely it seems at the moment) out riding with Spud on a Thursday...

We're usually out and about on the routes going out from Strelley and wandering all over... there are some surprisingly good little bits of singletrack hidden about the place when you know where to look.. :o)

gizzardman, annesley is pretty small so all the trails are fairly short and sweet but you can link up a multiple figure of eight type doohicky to entertain yourself for 45 mins, more if you session some bits. i normally start from kimberley and within 1k its some cheeky singletrack out to moorgreen which links easily to annesley. bit of a loop round there depending on time then a bit of cycle trail/ suburban stuff to link up to bestwood, 5 sweet little descents round there then back through bulwell hall park (via the cheeky chute of the old railway track). its usually 3-4 hours riding depending on how long you play in annesley and how many sandwich/ lets do it again! stops you have.

Swadey - if your in ilkeston do you ever get over to Shining Cliff woods at Ambergate? It's all good fun there.

Not made it over to Shining Cliff Woods on an MTB - time and family mean that MTB rides tend to be more local, and longer rides that way tend to be of the skinny tyred variety. One day I will get my priorities sorted.....

Beeston here, anyone going to the Sherwood Pines ride on Sat?

Used to be Notts but Now Derby. Ambergate is the mutts nuts ( its 30 mins from J25 M1 where I am so I class it as my local) and you can ride from shining cliff for an all dayer up the high peak trail round carsington a good 45 mile loop all in. Lots of flat stuff on the River Trent and Canals, bestwood also ace, sherwood forest also good

Annesley is on my commute to work 🙂

What's Ambergate like then? Is it singletracky stuff or DH stuff?

bit of both vdubber, shining cliff has some mega downhill runs and a few jump courses, the rest is proper off road singletrack