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Out the gate and I'm there.Don't need to cross tarmac even here in the FoD. Haven't ferried the MTB anywhere for several years. But then again I haven't ridden it as much as the road bike. Road bike gets taken somewhere occasionally as an hours drive gets us to a completely new area that isn't possible on the bike.
Out the door in the week, but like Stoner says, the Malverns are not really a place to be at weekends. Plus there isn't a lot of DH, so travel. Try not to go over an hour and a half, but will drive further maybe once every six weeks or so.
5 mins of road to the Nation cycle network, then straight into sherwood pines. Not the best in the world, but certainly not the worst & plenty of twisty singletrack to play in that most people miss.
Other than that, my favourite ride is 30 mins in the car with the odd trip further afield.
Road bike usually from home, but the occasional change.
Another lucky one here. Straight out of the door onto the trails. I'm extra lucky as the local council have seen the potential of mountain biking to the local economy. So I've got Lee and Cragg quarry on the doorstep. And the icing on the cake is that the trail pixies have been busy so my regular loop finishes with a fantastic downhill section of steps and berms that plonks me out literally at my back gate
Spoilt rotten me 😀
Gratuitous, not even slightly smug or gloating 'my rubbish local trails' pic....
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Decent road riding from the door, but once or twice a year I'll drive for 45 mins to get further into Wales.
Some fun bridleways nearby for the cross bike (so straight from the door), but no MTB, so typically a 45 minute drive to a honey pot.
Drive, unless I want to ride bridleways round the edge of fields all day.
Quite happy to travel 2-4 hours each way for a few hours riding. You're very lucky if you've got great riding out of the door, but I get a lot of enjoyment from riding new places, seeing different landscapes, towns and people, planning new routes.
So do most people ride very locally then- or is it the vocal few posting?
Bike only goes in car for foreign (or at least significantly remote) trips. Forest is 10mins ride away, with numerous more than adequate hills, and more ridable trails than I could ever ride in my lifetime (from sanitised to cheeky).
Road from Home.
I can go offroad to Delamere from home, but other than there, it means driving, which, its gotta be said, I'm more than happy to do..
My closest good riding is lordswood, which is 6 miles across Southampton. Otherwise it's a case of loading up the car and driving to QECP or doing a hybrid ride of bridleways joined with road around Hampshire.
Road - lots of great riding straight from the door.
MTB - From the door ? Nothing, nadda, zilch. I must live in one of the worst places in the country to be a mountain biker. No bridleways at all, and not any cheeky stuff either, so getting in the car and driving for an hour is a must.
I dream of being able to ride from my door. 😥
what trails that binners?
Donk - Thats the lovely, rocky singletrack that goes from the top of the Coal Road, and drops down behind Cragg Quarry.
Its bloody great! Though I hear Surrey's better! 😆
Think I've been down that trail (group ride from here last Nov) don't remember that bit tho, guess it looks different from the other direction (or we took a slightly different route)
I do both
gf lives near Swindon, me Reading - so have two sets of 'home routes' - happy to go for 1-2 hrsih for a 3 hr pootle - mainly as we like varied scenery etc.
Have done trail centres, esp when younger, do enjoy them but want to savour what I'm riding in rather than get through it as quick as humanly possible.
I used to be able to ride Grizedale from my door, its was great.
I cant anymore so I've stopped riding my mountain bike.
I live in the east midlands so pretty much have to drive if i want to ride anywhere good. luckily I work 5 minutes away from woburn so i tend to get a ride in there after work without much extra driving 🙂 as such the majority of my riding is road straight from my door, or bmxing. tbh i don't think mtb is always worth the extra time and money spent driving!
Ramsbottom - great riding on and off road from the front door, so much so, I hardly ever drive anywhere to ride.
Pours down constantly though.
Another Malvern rider here, after 15 minute climb out of the Link and I'm on the hills.
Hardly ever go anywhere else, don't really see the need, but if I do there's Wyre Forest or FoD either direction, Hopton just further up north.
Don't really have any problems with walkers up there - it does get crowded but it's the same for everyone, the area is more accessible so inevitable really.
A few seconds down the road and I'm over the Mole and up onto Frensham Downs just before the North Downs at Ranmore and then Leith etc., or Mickleham Downs/ Box Hill and then over to the Surrey Hills...
But don't come here, it's just rubbish. I'm sure ANYWHERE is much more pukka. Go there instead.
Wherever it is.
Road biking: rarely drive anywhere unless it's for an event of some kind - got some great little lanes in the Derbyshire Dales
Mountain bike: probably travel somewhere (c. 2-3 hours away by car or up to 5 hours for a long weekend) every other weekend but the other weekends and mid-week rides will be local and from-the-door. Lucky enough to have a commute that can include some nice little bits of off-road too.
Used to live on the edge of some decent off-road stuff so was able to ride from the door very happily. New home is amongst some fairly flat, claggy bridleways of north west Wiltshire, so I tend to drive, even if its 30mins to slightly less claggy/ more interesting stuff. The really good stuff however is further afield. I miss riding off road from my door 🙁
[b]Mr Woppit[/b]
A few seconds down the road and I'm over the Mole and up onto Frensham Downs just before the North Downs at Ranmore and then Leith etc., or Mickleham Downs/ Box Hill and then over to the Surrey Hills...But don't come here, it's just rubbish. I'm sure ANYWHERE is much more pukka. Go there instead.
Wherever it is.
It's all way to flat of course round this way anyway. Surrey is like riding in Norfolk 😀
Donk the pic is on the trail from the top of the coal road [ fecit brow ] to Waugh's well and then on to the back of cragg. good cheeky trail in dry , bogfest most of the time
It's all way to flat of course round this way anyway. Surrey is like riding in Norfolk
Precisely. Don't bother. That's my advice.