Decent 21 miles. Great about 40 miles.
7 miles door to peak but there is a cheeky uplift by train if i'm feeling lazy.
Think I'm the same as shooter man. About 30 minds in the car one way, or an hour the other
Less than a mile, all downhill, to the Clyde Walkway / Cambusnethan woods / Mauldslie woods.
Plenty of variety there from gentle riverside bimbles to some winch and plummet, shit-the bed downhills.
Also less than 10 mins from a brand new velosolutions pump track.
9mls out to Ae in one direction, 7 to Mabie in the other. Have been riding both since before 7Stanes was a twinkle in FCS eye......
Got local woods with the some fun but flat stuff minutes away
Lots of nice twisty, steep, techy and fast singletrack descending within 10 mins pedal from my house - all short 1 - 1.5 minute runs but all linkable by old lanes back up. Means I can go out early on a weekend (in addition to main Sunday ride) and get in a couple of hours' quality without losing ride time due to travel. I get to ride good trails, wife & kids don't miss me as I can be back before they're up. Win:win
Glad it's not just me who has to travel a few miles to get to decent trails, I am very jealous of some of you!! I suppose that's what comes with living in a flat bit of kent, Maidstone seems to have plenty of riding dotted around but it's all a few miles away.
And good singletrack doesn't need huge descents, just not completely flat 🙂 I'd take some nice undulating flowy trails with a few climbs and descents over a totally flat area.
Time to start exploring further afield on Strava and see what train links there are. Surrey hills are an hour away by car, swinley a little further and bedgebury is 40 mins away, then some other places dotted about near Canterbury and Eastbourne (friston forest).
Huge park at the end of the road - 2 cafes, gentle trails, the odd jump, huge hill, stately home, the occasional deer - bimbletastic. 🙂
Pennine Bridleway about 15 minutes ride away, via a 1.5km slice of heaven, Hurstwood Trail. And then you're straight on the moors.
It's awful round here etc......
Half a mile to singletrack that takes me to Peaslake in about a mile. I consider myself very lucky, but not by accident - it was a big factor in buying the house.
1 mile of quiet road to the top of the skills area at Delamere. Not that I have any skills.
About 1km for some ok stuff, and that leads to some better stuff, which then leads to one bit about 3km away that rivals some of the best stuff I've ridden anywhere in the SW. It's all a bit cheeky though 😉
Live less than a mile from Macc Forest which is now, rather sadly, devestated. Not great, but can still make a half decent loop by riding up to Teggs Nose, back down and linking with Danebower Hollow, Cumberland Brook etc. Lots of road climbing inbetween the good stuff though.
Peak District and Marple / Pennines are in easy reach though.
About 2 or 3km to the local single track, but thats pretty much all fire-road and already off in countryside, so not an unpleasant 'commute'.
I think I'd go mental if I couldn't just ride out the door for a blast. Heres hoping I don't have to!
Good singletrack starts in the garden, and at both ends of the road, and on the other side of the road........ they all link up eventually. In fact, calling them singletrack is a bit of an exaggeration. More like goat tracks. Some are proper little winch and plummet, with added hop and jump. Spiders web of usable paths. Downhill one way, undulating the other three.
The really good sustained stuff starts once you get past the last of the houses and gardens that are dotted around here, so maybe a whole km away.
2km from my front door and when the weather is like this there’s few other places I’d prefer riding. When the weather being less helpful BPW is a 20 mins drive, Afan 45, Cwmcarn about 30.
Singletrack starts about 100yds from my house and it’s abiut 1/2 a mile to start of good Singletrack. Very lucky for the South East
About 1 mile away, on the Isle of Man, and in Greece about 150 metres.
In one direction, I can be offroad almost immediately and apart from a little bit through town (uphill on the way but good for steps and cobbles coming back in the evening) I can be at Newlands Corner in 25 mins. From there the whole of the Surrey Hills opens up in front of me.
South West - similarly, I can be into the North Downs around Puttenham and then on to Hindhead and the Punchbowl.
And in the other direction there used to be some brilliant singletrack riding on semi-cheeky 'open access but you aren't really supposed to ride here' trails on the military lands around Pirbright and Aldershot. But a combination of idiots giving the army stick over 'rights', people digging jumps, the Strava effect and journo's turning up and publishing routes across these areas means the situation is very fragile balanced now, with a big fence around huge sections to keep us out and a local group trying their hardest to maintain access against the above.
It's not for nothing that Guildford truly is the heart of mountain biking in the UK 😉
Just been out the gate to check. 8 paces, so about 6m away.
Genuine singletrack, too. One bike's width, drops from the cottage then rooty singletrack through woods, can put together a day's riding from the door and the only tarmac I'll see is crossing roads.
Have pretty much always lived in the area off-and-on and part of the reason for choosing my cottage is because it's in the woods.
Anyone who used to come on the old FoD STW weekends will remember my previous house; that did involve a mile or so of tarmac to get to the good stuff but was next door to the village pub! Good weekends, good fun (",)
8 miles from my house but 1/2 mile from my office.
Long lunch breaks and early finishes happen quite regularly !
26 sq miles of singletrack approx 2 miles along a country lane
For me it’s about 50km away which is why I spend ever more increasing time on my road or cx bike. Can’t really justify spending two hours in the car when I could be spending that time on a different type of bike.
20 miles (Thetford) :0(
Living on the edge of The Fens is really pants for all types of cycling, it's a 20 mile ride just to get to some hills on the road bike.
Living in the Middle East makes this depressing. Closest reasonably accessible singletrack would be Oman about 1000km away.
Fun little trail ends pretty much in my back garden. Bottom of Double Header is about 500m away. Bottom of Ace of Spades about 1km away. #smug 😀
Under a km to some of my favourite singletrack, nothing super long but enough littl roots and nadgery bits to make it absorbing.. looks like this:
why does the gradient have to be down to be good, decent or singletrack that "counts" ?
11 minutes pedalling to the forest
couple more to get to decent singletrack
10km pedalled to get to a neat 2 way <span style="text-decoration: underline;">up and down</span> singletrack with roots, ruts, sand, some rocks, that every time you ride it it's different.
Shimano gave me pedals, and cranks and a chain. They're pretty handy for going up decent singletrack 😉
I have Friston Forest on my door step - so some nice single track there.
**** off Stevo, you're spoiling it for everyone else 🙂
7 miles away I have QECP. Thats my closest. And I thought I was lucky!
Proper day out in mountains is 3hrs away. Surrey Hills are very good for a day out and are 1hr away.
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About 500 yards away for my local woods in Galloway
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And more excellent singletrack is no more than a 10 min cycle.
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Spoilt for choice in this area with the added benefit that Galloway is deserted but i guess Scotroutes will win this contest easily
About 40 seconds at a push from my door...
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why does the gradient have to be down to be good, decent or singletrack that “counts”
Doesn't have to be all down, just not flat. In can't stand flat stuff, even little 2ft rollers are better than totally flat.
8 miles up the A3(m). (QECP)
There is a good bit 3 miles away, but it's a road ride there and nothing after it but more roads, so I don't do it very often, most recently on the gravel bike a couple of times.
100m from my door and I'm into the Squamish trail network. Singletrack or access trail to start, and one of Squamish's great singletrack descents to bring me right back home
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Trouble is that having lived where we do, it would be extremely difficult to live anywhere else.</span></span>
If it's now a show and tell, this is the kind of local stuff I was talking about. Short but sweet.
No more than 2 miles to the braes(all up hill though!). Train through to mugdock is 30minutes. Or 10/15miles or so if I cycle out. Been a while since my fat arse done that though! 😆 concentrating on the canal at the mo trying to get a semblance of fitness back! Need to start aiming for hills at some point!
Probably .5 mile from a good one. Depressingly i don’t even had a kom on that one. I did work hard.
All my mountain bike interesting off road riding involves a drive of 20 minutes or more. On the flip side I can be sailing or kayaking from a less than ten minute walk.
It's probably the reason I've ridden so little lately. Love it once I'm out but the thought of driving and the inevitable load/unload fatf - bleuch!
Up the top of my street, through the churchyard, and into a small section of woody singletrack. It's ok rather than decent, but good for starters. Or in the other direction, 3 mins on the road before a great, varied section ... ancient cobbles buried amongst the dirt, fast, flowy, jumping off cobbled lips or roots, culminating in a steep, rocky descent to a wooden bridge over a stream. So much good stuff in and around north Leeds ... You can have a belting 1 hour blast or a full day loop. Or there's a wealth of technically much easier trails, but which are a hoot flat out on a CX/gravel bike.
i guess Scotroutes will win this contest easily
One doesn't like to brag.
