[Closed] Long Mynd t0day - beyond fantastic [PICS]

Looks brilliant! I've only been to the mynd twice and loved it, really need to go again asap!

Looks great. We were there about 10 days ago and it was more like water skiing than riding. It absolutely binned it down, nothing to see but clouds. Must go back on a decent day!

Good fun day out on the Mynd, lots of climbing = lots of descending! 😉

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Lovely today. Headwind on the tops seemed to be in our faces all day long but small price to pay for sunshine. Bits of mud under the trees but descents were all superb. It's a lot wilder than the Malverns. Sort of like a mini-Wales really.

Last three weekends we've done 1000m+ climbing and descending. Malverns are pretty steep so I'm used to it but legs toast today. Not sure I could have made another climb after three monsters!

I've yet to experience the Mynd in the dry but it's on my wish list. Looks like today would have been ideal.

* is homesick.

🙂 same for me with the quantocks last week. Never been in the dry as far as I can remember. Bike came back dusty! Still Wales the week before was about the wettest ride I've ever done!

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See? Dry!

How bad an idea would going on a singlespeed be? My only geared mtb is a dh bike, the light hardtail is ss! I can't remember the steepness of the climbs -I'm usually ok on ss if its long and steady but steep kills my legs.

Hmm. I;m sure it could be done but I ride most of the Malverns in the top ring on a 2x10 on a 29er, but used my granny ring A LOT today. Mate on a single ring (34 front) found it tough in places. So might be doable but not by me!

Hmm I've never been the mynd riding but I might try and get over there soon, on a dog free weekend of course.

My favourite place to ride bar none! From my perspective singlespeed would be tough!

Rode there recently for the first time. Really enjoyed it and Minton Batch is great, fast, flowing singletrack with a few surprises. Some very steep sections of climb though, gears highly recommended!

I remember struggling with 1x9 when I was there before but both me and my bike were a lot heavier and I was a lot less fit!

Where is the best place to park my car to ride here?

I use the car park at the bottom of Long Batch.

How far is it from blazing bike shop ?

Great pics. Got the route?

Never been to the shop. Sorry...

Shop's great. We all spent some money in there this morning. Cafe is good too. And the pub next door has lovely beer. Anyway I digress, you can park at the shop and head up the road, finish about 2k (bottom of the batch) away on return.

We used the What MTB route: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/wmb151-long-mynd-classic which is great, but we went a bit off piste and found some stuff we'd really like to come down next time including one of the descents on the Singetrack Route (I think another mate did it last week and it was even more of a monster)

glad you had a good time OP - meanwhile to balance things out, I had driven up from the chilterns for the weekend but found out on saturdays ride that I had forgotten to tighten my chainring bolts & two had fallen out 😳 no access to internet & no idea where local bike shops were meant me & fannygirl had to resort to walking today only to discover mid 4hr walk that Wenlock Edge pub was shut 🙁 oh & my camelback bladder split & gave me a wet arse too 👿

I've been told the shop is run by Sandy. Anyone know if that's the case?

That looks amazing.

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I've been told the shop is run by Sandy. Anyone know if that's the case?

How far is it from blazing bike shop ?

Quick ride up the road, I parked up at the shop and took the Banshee Rune out on demo.

They had a Bronson to demo as well if that's your kind of thing 😉

Dickeyboy - that's a tough old weekend 🙁

I was there yesterday too. Only saw 6 other bikers, despite covering 30 miles on the Ride UK bridleways and doing a lap of Eastridge. Bits of it feel [i]very[/i] untrodden.

Gears are definitely recommended, certainly on the route we did.

Looks ace! Must go back sometime, when I rode there with some mates from Uni it was an utter mudfest- one of those rides you have to laugh or you'd just cower under a tree sobbing 😆

Cheers,
Jamie

Looks fun that, never ridden it before but heard good things and i'd really like to go and do a route

OP do you have a .gpx of the route you did at all?

GPX as above 😉 http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/wmb151-long-mynd-classic

nice one alex im gonna head up there and check it out whilst its still summer

Quick Write up: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=2944

Next weekend feels too far away. Think I might have to go back.

Looks like the Qs. Is it me?

aaarrgg it gets worse... just found out my sister was walking Long Mynd on Sunday & we could have joined her - she lives in Australia, is here for a month & for various reasons we will only actually be spending one day together before she leaves for home 🙁

Thanks to this topic I'm going/staying Fri .

Any routes advice?

Be sure "not" to descend Townbrook Hollow. Better than Minton, but sadly not a right of way 😉

Got it 😉

Townbrook will be maxed out with walkers this weekend I'd have thought.

Solo rider crack of dawn Fri and Sat am though. Generally the only time that I get to ride is silly early or late.

Decent map here[url= http://www.plushhillcycles.co.uk/trails/105-long-mynd-mtb-map.html ]LONG MYND[/url]

GPS download of a good route here[url= http://www.gpsies.com/map.do;jsessionid=8D5CBBEA0DADE62E34F1E2A206D0D12C?fileId=zagolxswbocgcjjv ]MBR ROUTE[/url]

I'll be there Thursday morning. Can't wait now

This looks likes a future Friday venture Golfchick. 🙂

Are there any direction (words) style maps that I can use? The one(s) above are more gps-style? Also - wheres townbrook in relation?

Are there any direction (words) style maps that I can use?

Have a look here - http://www.theedgecycleworks.com/mtb-route-search-results/

If you go to the cattle grid at bottom of the Burway (take the path up to the road out of Carding Mill car park), pick up the path on t'other side of the road, follow it round into the bottom of Townbrook. Check OS map for directions into the top, but it is vaguely signposted from the road on top of the Mynd.