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I’ve done a search but a lot of the posts are quite old. A couple of us are planning on riding Inners and GT over a weekend next month. We plan to drive up early doors (approx 5 hours) Saturday and do Inners then B&B and pub. Sunday will be an early start (beer permitting) then over to GT. I’ve ridden it once before years ago but couldn’t tell you which bits. So, what route should we do? Thanks!
it's all good.
don't stress about what you ride.
I like to do the first half of the black, then cut down from the radio mast to the red at Spooky Woods. Do some red, then do the blue to the carpark (motorway, blue velvet, berm baby berm) then do blue from carpark to the bottom.
Pretty good mix of countryside/exertion/fun
Pretty much agree with geex. I personally like doing several pedal ups to the mast (at the highest point on the black but there are several ways to go up) combined with bits and pieces around the place.
There's lots to do that way, plenty of potential loops, and the official routes are actually all good fun as well. Depends on the type of ride you're after really, but it's all good riding.
So many options, marked or otherwise, although if riding there over a weekend, some of the more obvious trails will have almost constant traffic.
Not the hardest trail, but one of my favourites, is (from close to the mast) Carl's Lane - Truon Chinh - Ho Chi Min - Zoom or Bust - Dave's Trail, which drops you right on the edge of Peebles. It's then a 10 min climb back up to Buzzards Nest car park.
It’s then a 10 min climb back up to Buzzards Nest car park.
The least enjoyable 10 you'll have.
Depends how ealrly you get there, but I did GT Black first on Saturday, have late lunch, the do most of the red in the afternoon/evening with any blue loops youve got the energy for.
Sunday do the Blue early with any red bits you cut on Saturday or fun bits you want to revisit, then do Inners Red last as its a bugger of a climb but a great last descent of the weekend.
I did drive up overnight and get few hours kip on the backseat in the car park though so I could do the black before it got busy. Then I was setting off on the red as most people were coming down the hill or at lunch.
so I could do the black before it got busy
hahahahhahhahaaaa
This has never was and never will be a thing.
Driving up overnight and catching a few hours kip in your car to get a quiet ride sounds a bit extreme. GT Black has gotta be one of the quietest graded trail centre routes in the Scottish borders. I did it on Saturday afternoon at an extremely leisurely pace with loads of stops and we saw absolutely no one at all from where it leaves the shared Red (by the freeride) until the final few red descents (mushrooms). and even then it was just a teenage ripper in his late teens taking his mum round the Red. hardly bustling.
OP. Enjoy the pub. Have a lie in (in your proper bed) and get a proper breakfast. It's still light for riding til well after 7:30pm
do Inners Red last as its a bugger of a climb but a great last descent of the weekend.
I'd be more inclined to do GT last if only because you can grab a shower before sitting in a car with your mates for 5 hours. You've a better chance of getting back home in a semi-human state.
GT Black - more chance of seeing Lord Lucan than another cyclist.
Don't do Inners red, it's really no worth the climb, I'd personally just spend 2 days riding everything that you can at GT, have a look at Trail forks, there's literally trails everywhere.
Maximise yer fun.
Inners is definitely worth the climb as long as it's all open.
I went up there last month and half the descent was shut for forestry work.
So basically GT is all great, will look at youtube to get an idea. I seem to remember we may have only done red and blue last time, spooky wood rings a bell. I forgot to add that we’re driving back on Sunday too so it won’t be a mammoth day riding.
ac282 - thanks will check that.
Mehhh, still nice being the first one on the trails in the morning. And I prefered to car camp and have a whole day on the trails rather than lose half a day driving.
It was actually surprisingly busy, kept crossing paths with a guy on a cx bike and a few others, so perhapse dawn is the busy time!
Morning is def busier. If you drive down from the general direction of Embra before mid day you pretty much always pass a procession of family cars driven by emaciated Zwift addicts still in their lycra, bike on the roof heading the other way to get back to spend the afternoon at B&Q/IKEA or whatever it is their wives let them do with their weekends.