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I live in North Bristol and tend to ride still woods, ashton court, elmtree, roeberrow and cwm carn. Im after some new trails, ideally nice long runs, somthing to get some excitement back into the rides. Ideally within an hour drive, im not after pure xc rides, something with a mix of stuff, up hill, downhill, rocky, tech.... well you get the idea!! what do you recommend within an hour or so drive.
Wooton under edge, North Nibley, Dursley.
Mendips?
Edit: oh, just seen you already ride there...
up hill, downhill, rocky, tech
Aren't they XC rides?
There's meant to be tonnes of excellent natural stuff around Cwm Carn, but I don't know it!
yup plenty to ride (dh/jumps/freeride stuff) around Wooton Under Edge - quite a surprising area!
Check out the old quarry/gravel pit just [url= http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=north+nibley&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.797856,17.050781&ie=UTF8&ll=51.659712,-2.369871&spn=0.000947,0.00206&t=h&z=19 ]here[/url] - there are loads of tracks running off this hill
In fact quite a bit of the stw route guide to the Cotswolds is good riding (plus a bit of old skool fields / bridleways)
Forest of Dean and Wye Valley just over the bridge from you 😉
Another vote for Wotton Under Edge/North Nibley/Kingswood.
[url= http://connect.garmin.com/activity/861257 ]Wotton Under Edge Ride (Evans Ride It)[/url]
There's over 1200m of ascent, over 25 miles, and no flat bits.
cheers all, I will have a look into those!!
Ooo Ooo Ooo, there's one near me, but the name aludes me.
Quite a bit of up and down, 5 min flowy singletracks, Techy if you want, loose rocky in places, bit of all sorts really.
Open 24/7 and 365 days a year any weather..
the comment on xc, I just meant I dont like flat long slogs, I like techy, rocky flat is fine if its fast and narrow trails, im just not into the open space no brain slogging.... I like to be thinking and adapting to the terrain all the time..... if you get my drift!
Sharki - that'll be the Bristol-Bath cyclepath
Newport Velodrome? 😉
Its not a slog, its murder ...
Someone form Bristol said on here that the Mendips only has 40 minutes of good riding, so I'd not bother looking there.
I guess the Mendips does only have 40 minutes of good riding, if you are very quick on your bike
Quantocks aren't much over an hour from you - better than the Mendips.
Not too far to the Brecons. Tons of great stuff over there.
Exmoor is great if you don't OD on jam and cream.
Tons of stuff running between Newport and Cardiff, easily accessed from any M4 junctions between Newport/Cwmcarn and Cardiff/Coryton interchange. Could show you some if you want to tag along with our group one Sunday.
Rich C ...."I guess the Mendips does only have 40 minutes of good riding, if you are very quick on your bike "
Or you don't know where the really good bits can be found!!!
From Cwmcarn you could go over the sirhowy valley back towards Cardiff, Rhydry, ridgeway loads of stuff around there, I would've thought with a map you could even find a lot of it quite easily.
"...I guess the Mendips does only have 40 minutes of good riding, if you are very quick on your bike..."
It would have to be an MX bike, and a quick one at that.
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yep, that was what I was thinking.