[Closed] Rain proof trail centres

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Dartmoor and Exmoor

Marin was pretty good.

Stainburn gets good feedback for wet weather conditions, and it's built with that always in mind.

Swaledale, 'puddly' but not muddy.

Oh wait....

There's no mud on Penmachno.

Mud at Penmachno? Never heard of it.
Go ride there, it's perfect when raining too

Penmachno- cleanest trail centre there is.

Whinlatter

You will very rarely find mud at any centres in South Wales, water though!

Lap of Whites today, I’d been better off with a canoe.

Have you heard of Zwift?

How about Llangollen; is it largely mud free there?
I don’t mind a bit wet but I can’t stand slogging through the mud!

There's no mud on Penmachno.

This is true, the many rivers wash it all away.
However the entire thing is under several inches of water.

BPW - was piss wet through yesterday and there are bits of mud and the odd slippy root, but for the majority, it's grippy as hell

unklehomered you gone done ruined my ruse,yer varmint!
Also.....no trail centre in Llangollen.

Have you heard of Zwift?

I’d rather sandpaper my plums.

Don't like mud !
Jesus I've heard it all now 😆
While you are at it you might as well get the F.C.staff to go around with pumps and mops to get rid of the surface water ..

They should the amount they charge for parking

& my thoughts exactly PJ.

Mabie handles the wet pretty well, barely a puddle.

@ breadcrumb Mabie ? Where’s that?

I remember one phenomenally wet day at CYB a couple of Decembers back. One guy had his bike swept about 15 metres down a river. Approaching the trail centre we came across two raging torrents. One was a stream, the other was the trail. We initially took the wrong one.
No mud though. The rain had washed it all away.

Jekkyl..hold that thought when the funding for these centres dries up ..and it's going to.. the cutbacks are already happening . 😥

I was a Comrie today, it was holding up well, being 90% Rock...

I hear road biking is relatively low in mud. Tried that?

Bedgebury, a big travel bike it turns it into a bore, but it holds up well in the winter.

Coed y Brenin is fine in the pissing rain.
In real life.

a mate rode penmachno last week and said it was fine,
every peddle stroke and your foot came up out of the water again

I remember one phenomenally wet day at CYB a couple of Decembers back. One guy had his bike swept about 15 metres down a river. Approaching the trail centre we came across two raging torrents. One was a stream, the other was the trail. We initially took the wrong one.
No mud though. The rain had washed it all away.

I rode that trail, then, in that pissing rain I reckon.

Most fun I've ever had on a bike. Sideways rain and falling/fallen trees....not so much.

@ breadcrumb Mabie ? Where’s that?

Scottish borders, Dalbeattie is just a little further along but I've not ridden that in the rain to comment.

Whinlatter is fine in the rain but very puddly.

Most of them hold up OK in the rain as they use a crushed gravel base rather than soil. They just get very splashy and gritty.

Gisburn and Grizedale are both like that, they end up with some monster puddles in some of the big braking bumps but it's not really muddy.

Isn't geting muddy and wet half the fun of mountain biking?
Ask any kid.

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Isn't geting muddy and wet half the fun of mountain biking?

It is at the moment, as we've just gone from dry July to soggy August to sodden September/October.

Another three or four months of it and the novelty will be wearing off though.

No mention of Llandegla in this thread, I was thinking of popping over there this week. I presume it's not horrendous after a rainy spell?

Llandegla should be ok. Can anyone tell me what state Innerlethern and Glentress are in?

Sorry for the slight hijack.

I hear road biking is relatively low in mud.

It wasn't on Saturday in the South Lakes, jeez! I might as well have been off-road given the state of some of the lanes, at times I wasn't sure there was even any tarmac there.

Got back to Devil's Bridge and overheard a cop saying they'd had loads of rain overnight and that there were lots of stranded cars due to flooding.

Can anyone tell me what state Innerlethern and Glentress are in?

Scotland, but it's not really a state.
IGMC

Cannock doesn't have mud, just wet and grinding paste.

Mabie is OK in the wet apart from the very end (like last 10 minutes) Dalbeatte is also 95% rocks so not muddy, and the rock is very grippy.

Penmach is amazing in the rain. The aqueduct system they've built collects the water really well. Its a shame the trail system appears to be exactly co-located with the channels. <never been so wet anywhere, ever, even in the tropical rain forests of Queensland and Hawaii>

Kielder works well. Has to really - they built the reservoir there for a reason.

Glentress was good last weekend, inners was a bit greasy for my (admittedly, summer xc) tyres but certainly ridable

Be quick if you fancy stainburn, as it's closing for a couple of months for forestrying, if it isn't already. Just the trail centre, not the stuff on the other side of the road.

Cannock doesn't have mud, just wet and grinding paste.

Enjoy riding through wet sand interspersed with shiny pebbles? Come to Cannock

Enjoy riding through wet sand interspersed with shiny pebbles? Come to Cannock

Unless you go off piste, then you can find trails with sticky, claggy mud.

Official trails ride fine in the wet, but you may start going through components at an alarming rate...

I've always found Afan and Cwmcarn hold up pretty well. Very wet, but not muddy.

Not a trail centre, but the main combes on the Quantock are still great in the wet.

Isn't geting muddy and wet half the fun of mountain biking?
Ask any kid.

No, it's not. I don't like mud. I put up with it, but I don't actually like it. I'd rather get thrills by going fast than slithering about at 5mph.

Re trail centres - Cwmcarn is totally rideable in any weather. Well - Twrch at least. There is a string of about five puddles at the beginning though. Cafall is still perfectly rideable too. There are some muddy sections but not enough to be a problem.

For mud-free areas, I'd say look at somewhere like Moab.

FWIW I did four sodden rides on the trot this week around Cardiff, and whilst very wet and muddy it occurred to me that there is very little clag that affects riding. There are a few trails like that but they are easily avoided. It's a pretty good area for a wet ride.

I think Gisburn is relatively mud fee. It certainly isn't puddle free though !

It's much better since the resurfacing though. Whether it's is a good or bad thing depends on your outlook