First post around here, so be gentle... 🙂
During the Christmas break I'll be touring the country to satisfy my wife's need to take our 5 month old, first born to see every living relative; So no time for much riding... but I've been given Christmas Eve off.
We'll be up at my wife's family in Denton, Manchester and I was thinking of a trip to Lee Quarry. Being a 'Southern Softy' and it being the depths of winter I don't fancy a trip to the moors, so I'm looking for something trail center like.
Any other suggestions/ideas?
Ta muchly!
Gisburn Forest? Nowt wrong with Lee Quarry but it's maybe a bit short. You can do Gisburn then drive to Lee Quarry on your way back?
If it *must* be a trail centre then yes, Lee quarry or Gisburn are closest/ Llandegla is doable via the M56, and just a little furhter takes you to Penmachno, but travelling time from Denton will be from 45 mintues (lee quarry) to 2 hours (Penmachno)
There's a *possibility* that MartynS, Mrs NBT and I will be out round Marple on Christmas Eve, the [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-ride-maple-stockport-now-sunday-8th-october-revised-date ]STW Marple ride[/url] went down well - we don;t have to do the full route if you don't feel like it, but it's a cracking ride 🙂
Llandegla is not too far from Manchester either
It doesn't have to be a trail center; just an (very) easy to navigate route. Ideally I'd like to discover more local rides, as I will be spending more time up there now. Natural is best after all! 🙂
But... I've also heard good things about Lee Quarry! 😕
i can do rivvy ride with you on natural , home of commonwealth games, - my e-mail in profile if you want to e-mail me.
this area roughly
Peaks are closer to you though in temrs of travel and possibly Lee Quarry
nbt/Junkyard - Thanks for the invites; I'm interested in the Marple ride if you are going out. It'll be good as it's pretty close and I'll be doing quite a lot of driving that week, so less time in the car the better! (More time for riding too, right!? 😉 )
I'm no race whippet, so don't want to slow any one down, but let me know if you guys decide to go though.
Ta.
Pete - all nbt's rides are sociable and go at the pace of the slowest.
You know the type, a bit of banter, stopping for snacks, pointing out points of interest e.g where so and so fell off last week. All good fun.
I'll be going. 🙂
Sounds perfect! Let's hope it happens, thanks again for the invite.
I'll watch this thread for any plans.
Ta!
*BUMP*
I've got Christmas Eve booked off to go riding, If you still fancy this then drop me a mail - my email's in my profile
general invite, by the way, all welcome
You've got 'mail'! Looking forward to it,
Cheers!
peath, where abouts in denton are you staying roughly? theres also reddish vale and over towards hyde/werneth low which is quite a nice steady area maybe you could try it next time,
gazman
Pete, hope you got my mail, due to my tumble at the weekend I'm not going to be able to make this 🙁
