Hi,
I'm gonna live in London for a while (i think in west London (as my company is in Fulham) and i'm fan of extreme riding 🙂 enduro/fr/dh.
I'm looking for some bike parks, i found a map: http://www.essexhertsmtb.co.uk/mtb-trails.php
it looks there are some DH tracks (Swinley, Aston Hill, North Downs) a few more ?
my question is, is there any uplift service? or you need to push your dh rig back up to a hill?
or maybe it's better to have an enduro/fr bike with uphill capabilities (or enduro e-bike 🙂 ) ? (like 160-170mm travel bike - SC Nomad3, NukeProof Mega, Banshee Rune).
I like jumps (but not too dirty - not too much up :), some gaps (up to 3-4 meters), drops etc.
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Aston Hill as you say
Plenty of such features in the Surrey Hills/North Downs, many well hidden so you'd need to be shown them
You can go on a Nirvana Freeride from their shop in Westcott
For what you want Swinley doesn't offer much
Enduro bike best as no uplifts
If you want an uplift you need to go to Wales really
[i]my question is, is there any uplift service? or you need to push your dh rig back up to a hill?[/i]
Uplift? For less than 100 vertical metres...
also Chicksands
all push up really
aston to the north has the only place where a DH bike is worthwhile, but not necessary
some fun to be had at chicksands, 4x, jumps, drops etc
woburn has some good lines for jumps lots of xc
swinley has a few fr type runs but really its xc
north downs has some good stuff, not to justify a dh bike
some good local stuff around hampshire, QECP has some xc stuff and the odd tough line
http://www.gravityproject.co.uk/ run a good race series, check out their venues for mini dh parks , the last race even claimed brendog- he had a quality otb!
tbh youll get more fun out of an enduro bike, unless you fancy a regular 2-3hr drive to cwmcarn etc
in the 9 years I've lived in London I've gone from rad FR rider to lycra'd up roadie - mainly because of the accessibility of decent trails.
behind nationwide?
probably at some weekends i will choose South Wales (Cwmcarn) by a car.
There's PORC.
Most of London seems to descend on the Surrey Hills at the weekend.
oh yeah PORCs good, but theyve just made a lot of the doubles into tabletops, not sure about the river crossing tho!