[Closed] Top ten rides in the uk...

What's the Surrey Hills monster loop? Can't be as monster as Gee's 'normal' Surrey Hills loop!

I'd probably say what Rob Lee did for 7 Deadly Spins, and add in a good Surrey Hills ride, and some others.

Jordan?

EDIT: sorry just reread as [i]natural[/i]

One of my favourite rides is The Gap in Brecon, the Beacons are beautiful. I grant you its not the most technical of routes or the longest.

Last 10 "natural" rides I did (including the ones which drop into GT/Inners for part), advantage of Scottish Borders.

Conwy Mountain & Drum.

Llanberis Slate/Moei Y Ci.

Swaledale.

Tour of Ingleborough.

Pretty much all of Northumberland.

Malham.

Pen Y Ghent.

Calderdale cheek.

Boggart Hole Clough, on a Grifter.

Just for starters, loads more.

The main Torridon loop has to be in there.
The Liathach loop however, is crap, unless you like pushing over a 3-4 mile boulder field to get to your downhill bit.
Ben Nevis circuit.
Glen Tilt.
Loads in the Lakes.
Even more in Scotland.

EDIT, dunno how I even forgot about Swaledale or the rest of the Dales for that matter!

Jordan?

EDIT: sorry just reread as natural

It's in the Middle East anyway.

The Liathach loop however, is crap, unless you like pushing over a 3-4 mile boulder field to get to your downhill bit.

That Liathach one is on some MTB tour company's itinery! I'd want some money back if they took me on that!

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Have you thought about asking on a forum where people ride bikes?

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Forest Of Dean
Exmoor
Cotswolds
Quantocks
Peaks
Lakes
Purbecks
Wilts.

Dislikes South Downs.

Depends on:
Company
Weather
How well you're riding
Trail conditions
The bike, to an extent

I've been quite disappointed by some apparently top 10 rides.

No trail centre can make the list surely?

For old times sake in no order

Porter Clough, blackamoor, graves for top city ride
Buttermere, blacksail, seatoller, honister slates mines for hike a bike.
Cheviots for remoteness and peace, well when they are not having a pretend war anyway.
Ladybower to langsett and back for moorland single track.

Simonside is my local and although I love the descent into Whitefield I would not call it one of the best in the uk. Maybe as I have been doing it for 25 years. OK then as it's the route that got me into mountain biking, the views are stunning and the descent ace I will call it one of my favourites, with a few local extras of course.

I think the best ride I've ever done was a shortish loop from Coulags and down to Achnashellach a couple of weeks ago.
A combination of landscape, weather, company, no mechanicals and just having one of those days when you can completely nail every line.

Certainly that Achnashellach descent is without question one of the best bits of trail anywhere in the UK.

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My fave day out from home is the standard Surrey hills epic - near on 100 miles off road. Coul be even further as you can link up all the gorrick venues off road too, but usually I've found 100 miles to be enough. I've yet to ride anywhere I prefer to the Surrey hills in terms of trails - although I've not done much riding elsewhere in an 'exploring' sense. Used to do big loops on the NY Moors at Uni, but that was extremely bleak. Most of my riding elsewhere is trail centres or racing.

Ranger's
Talybont loop
Rhyadder 40 miler
The full Chilterns Jalopy
Classic Peaks loop (take your pick, it doesn't really matter)

You can't beat riding with a local I find.

No particular order.

Mt Keen
Scotland Coast to Coast
Assorted Peaks routes
Lake District has some good trails
Surrey Hills
Quantocks

Covers the nice ones I have done.

Torridon
Skye
Mount keen
Glen tilt
Devils staircase
Ben nevis circuit
And a few others in scotland..need to broaden my horizons a bit!

Hebrides End-to-end

I would say...

Honister slate mine descent into buttermere - lakes
Torridon
Devils staircase - glencoe
Horse head moor descent into fox up - dales
Cadir idris
Final 2 descents on the marin
Rangers path - snowdon
Borrowdale bash - lakes
Cheeky trail off high st above ullswater
Nan bield done to haweswater

You guys have never been to Swindon have you???

Swindon, must check that out 🙂

Ohh I'd forgotten cader idris. Ace that one.
I always liked the cheeky single track at the back of Armstrong house thinking of Northumberland.

+1 for the Borrowdale Bash - a real gem of an afternoon's ride, it's just got a bit of pretty much everything from super tech, fun tech climbing to flat out screaming joy.

England and Wales only, I dont know the riding in Scotland well enough

Not particular order;

1. Mendips to A38, via Rowberrow or Limestone Link from Beacon Batch. Nipping down to Cheddar for coffee.
2. Borrowdale Bash - a cliche, but fun and a good way to see the north Lakes
3. Snowdon, down via Rangers Path
4. Quantocks - taking in Chimney, Great Wood and Lady's Coombe climb
5. Exmoor, Porlock climbing to Dunkery Beacon, tea in Exford and back over Dunkery and down through Horner or Porlock Wood
6. Messing around in the Wye Valley near Tintern, not so much a route as a number of linked descents. A southern version of the Grizedale forest bridleways.
7. Dartmoor - Lustleigh Cleave, Nutcrackers, Bowermans Nose area
8. Dartmoor - Postbridge and the East moors
9. Leaving my office and riding home via the urban Bristol trails on a summer's evening
10. Helvellyn - down via Grizedale Tarn

I've missed loads of great ones out, including all of the Peaks, Cotswolds, Mid Wales and Brecon Beacons, but those are 10 that came to mind to me. Not necessarily the best, but ones I like and will ride this summer.

Llanberis Slate/Moei Y Ci area (a local loop for me)
Rangers (not sure if this would be a fave if not so close)
Black Mountains/Talgarth (ahh Y Das)
Gap/Talybont area (fond memories of sunnier Easters)
Llyn Colwyd/Crafnant
Penmachno (who cares if it is "natural" or not? I do it a lot so it must be a fave, even if not the most epic)

I've only ridden around the Purbecks in England, and never Scotland, so my choices are somewhat limited!

Cut Gate
Edale
Oxenhope
Gargrave - Grinton (Yorkshire Dales)
NY Moors
Tour De Wakey
Skiddaw - Back of +ride to summit
High Street
Bingley Bash
Everything else

Oh yeah skiddaw and down ullock pike is imense, forgot that one.

Helvellyn (the full day route)
Esk Hause to seathwaite farm
Torridon
Ben Lomond
Sticks pass to Glennridding, always better if you do it the second time
Boredale Hause to side farm (upper track its nuts)
Scarth gap North to Buttermere (Bad to get too)
Blacksail pass towards Wasedale farm
Great Dun fell road climb (sorry) ( High Pennines)
Little Dunfell off road descent in the right ground conditions (High pennines)
and theres shed loads more in the lakes but highly cheeky..

Long Mynd making sure to take in the Minton Batch and Little Stretton descents 🙂

Loved Snowdon up Llanberis/down Rangers as well.

Cracking route on the North Yorks Moors, was listed in Mtb Pro many years ago. Runs around Goathland, Danby area with lots of climbing & descending & a fair dose of singletrack. Just watch out for the descent that appears to be just a grassy field.
Another NYM route I used to enjoy - top of Clay Bank, up & across to Bloworth Crossing, on to Baysdale & singletrack across moor to Hob Hole, then back up the valley & retrace back to Bloworth, drop through Bransdale & Tripsdale.
Hamsterley - pre-trail centre type routes.
Rhayader
Snowdon
Lake District ride taking in Walna Scar Road, Little Langdale to Elterwater & Loughrigg to Pelter Bridge.
Dales - Gunnerside Gill area.

The Gypsy Glen. Haven't done too many other more natural rides.

Yes lived in Swindon for a while saw the light and got out 😉

1. Scotland
2-10. dunno