So my job is taking me to Amsterdam. Is it possible to find some OK riding within 1-2 hours of the city? I currently live in central London, so I'm pretty used to driving over an hour to the trailhead once or twice every weekend. I'm not expecting the Alps, after all, I normally ride the Surrey Hills.
I can see that Willingen and Winterberg in western Germany have small ski resorts with a max elevation of around 1,000m, which are pretty big on mountain biking in the summer, but they're still a 4-hour drive away, which would be OK once a month, but not every weekend.
Any suggestions...?
If I recall correctly, there were quite a few very successful mountain bikers from the Nederlands.
CX FTW
Take up dominoes.
I do like dominoes...
Give it up & get a Dutch bike. Weekend traffic out of the Dam can be awful, Perhaps a fatbike for the dunes all along the coast would be fun?
after spending a week there a couple of years ago, said i'd move there in a second... if there were mountains!
Take up road cycling and learn to ride in echelons in the crosswinds.
When I lived there I found a few XC places to ride but nothing too taxing. Schoorl and Bergenschenoek are two that I recall but there was a few other places dotted about. Also just noticed that the MTB route website I used back then is still on the go....
http://www.mtbroutes.nl/route/801/Bergschenhoek