[Closed] So wheres the nearest trail to where you live ?

stainburn.

About 100 meters away

druidh; and I bet you put the bike in the back of the car to get there....

Starts at the shed and goes up into the hills. Inners.

over there -------------------> this far <--->

I have none nearer than 25 miles, but 4 good riding spots within 25-35 miles

Dalby 5 minutes away

Ride straight out of the back of the house and onto some decent trails, live Burton on Trent

trail as in 'trail' or local bridleway trail.
cos if it is the 2nd then my back gate is on one... 8)

CYB, Marin & Penmachno all 15min car ride away.

Rivelin valley then peak district less than half a mile away.

Plenty within riding distance.

My driveway is a quarter mile long gravel strewn downhill with a bermed corner leading to some super trails. From door to trail = width of doorstep.

We can all ride out from our back yards - nearest trail centres ?

stainburn then.... 8)

Llandegla for me

dyls: nice location - plenty to choose from there..

Nant yr Arian....4 miles away..

Guisborough woods is 15 mins away by car, Dalby is 30 mins by car.

Random trails on the North York Moors are a 20 minute ride from my front door

Ah - you mean a purpose-built trail [i]centre[/i]?? That would be Glentress then.

My new years resolution was to avoid riding trail centres and ride local trails. Last nights 3.5 hour night ride was on wooded trails in and surrounding Kirkcaldy. Way more challenging than most 'trail centres'.
Driving time = not riding time.

Glenifer braes in paisley, not brilliant but not to bad either.

Define Trail. I've just come back from a three hour nightride from my door but it's not something people would travel to do.

Its just a location thing - whos spoiled for choice etc. Some MTB'rs are isolated from any trail centres and others such as Dyls have lots to choose from..
My nearest ride is the DOG at Cannock Chase, next nearest is probably Llandegla 50 miles away...

I'm about 30 - 35 miles from Carron Valley, Glentress and Blairadam.

Can be offroad in 20 metres from the door and now it's sort of like Spring, can ride for a couple of hours, without using more than a few hundred metres of road at a time and with very limited repeats. And I reckon about 2/3rds of that would be on singletrack.

I like where I live.

I can make a longish ride out of Stafford along old railway line, canal, country lanes and back home along a different canal - takes 3 hrs and burns legs - other than that off piste trails on the chase..

20 mins in car from Carron Valley

There is something infinetly rewarding in finding or being shown some new trails on your doorstep. I've met some great new riding pals who live within a 10 mile radius of home. They each know and ride trails on their dorsteps, so a network of 'local' trails becomes even bigger.

A couple of years ago I'd think nothing of driving the 100 mile round trip to Glentress most Wednesday nights. The prospect of driving that far to ride a 'trail' centre fills me dread now

I don'tmind trail centres occasionally,but it would do me head in,riding 'em reguarly.....follow the arrows???

The whole of the calder valley from my door 🙂

urban trails about 100 yards away
woods about 3 miles
moors about 10 miles
uplift 1hour in the car

Local woods - Oakwood, 2 miles. Fochabers - Moray Monster Trails etc, 10 miles.

30seconds ride from my house are my jumps 🙂

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Anyone else see a potentially fatal flaw with Duane's jumps? 😀

No, you dont hit the trees 😆

Laggan, golspie, learnie, fort bill, balnain, to name a few.

Trail centres are ok - like at the moment a lot of Cannock Chase is quarrantined unless you stick to the fire tracks -due to a fungal desease, this does not affect the 'follow the dog trail' so we can at least still get out and ride..

The fatal flaw with those jumps - Being arrested for kiddy fiddling?

[list]That branch looks kind of low. I wouldnt like to meet someone riding in the opposite direction

You just hit the floor...

.....After the woodwork collapses under its own weight

Fair bit of clearance from overhanging branch.

I consider myself lucky in that I live midway between Cwmcarn and the Afan Valley 😀

cwmcarn 5 miles,

Not a lot of horizontal bracing on that north shore, I reckon it would fold if Ton went over it.

Cwmcarn 10mins by bike.

Four miles of private singletrack out my back door. It's a ton of work, but it's all done my way.

I'm about ten miles from Rivington but I can hit offroad about 20 yards from my front door and ride all the way there without seeing tarmac if I want.

That's the beauty of living in an ex-mining town, absolutely masses of old colliery land which is only just becoming available for building on and is strewn with paths.

Err Gibraltar? That's not very helpful huh?

5 miles from Woburn Sands, 15 from Chicksands and Aston Hill and from there I have the whole of The Chilterns and the Ridgeway to ride.

200m to the woods
1 mile to the HtN track
10 miles to Lee Quarry

Mendips 15 mins in car, Quantocks 35 mins in car.

All real trails, designed by animals, walkers and mother natures weather fronts

nearest trails for me are about a 100yrds from my door... farm tracks that is, but you can follow those right into the woods ( about 2 miles ) and from there all the way up the haute jura ( going thru a few villages in the meantime )

martyntr - Member

Nant yr Arian....4 miles away..

Same for me.

nearest trails - outside the back door
nearest trail centre - wouldn't have a clue

Depends what you mean :-). I have the north edinburgh cycleway / water of leith path about 30m from my door, nearest bit of "real singletrack" about 4 miles away, Pentlandss about 8 miles away, Glentress about 50 mins drive

Can ride from home but nearest known trail is Wharncliffe 10 mins away, and Langsett upon to Cut Gate is 20 mins away

Home

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Wharncliffe

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Langsett

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Tracey

Tracey, is that a BMX track in the second pic? I can't be far from you so would be interested in going to it if it is.

Nearest riding of any note is Cannock Chase for me. 35mins in the car.

Nothing from the door except canal towpaths.
If I fancy peddaling a fair few road miles there and back (not often!) I can do Clent Hills.

Borrowdale Bash is probably closest well known trail to home.

5 metres from the woods behind our house.

half a mile from Rooley Moor Road/Mary Townley Loop/Pennine Bridleway

3 miles from Lee Quarry

10 miles from HtN track

As I live in the south of England the nearest trail centre is miles away- probably Cwm Carn.

Nearest trails are the N Wessex Downs which I can access straight from my front door- not technically challenging but there's miles of them.

200m from local woods
15 miles from Swinley Forest

purpose built trails?
overgrown pump track, crap easy north shore and crap unloved dirt jumps (might get em finished/sorted soon :oops:)= 2 miles away
national cycle route (links to edinburgh/East/mid lothian) = 1/2mile away, natural singletrack to get there
abysmal council metal skate park = 4 miles away
nearest trail centre/decent DH track Glentress/innerleithen = 30miles
crap natural XC = miles of it from my door

neverfastenuff - Member

I can make a longish ride out of Stafford along old railway line, canal, country lanes and back home along a different canal - takes 3 hrs and burns legs - other than that off piste trails on the chase..

I rode from Stafford to Telford down the old railway line the other week, not a bad route really, obviously not technical!

4ish miles to nevis range,
PJ

Within riding distance of Chicksands

Robdob

It is between Barnsley and Wath at the side of the Trans Pennine Trail, council put it in for local kids Its OK for a mess about on

Some more pics of track in with this lot

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Tracey

I'm lucky? enough to live in Cannock and work a lot in Bedford- so the Chase is 2 mins ride from my house and Chicky is about 10mins in the car for after work rides. Used to holiday near Aberystwyth every year as well so Nant y Arian is a fave. The towns are not exactly exciting but who needs towns anyway?

Live 100yds from a path/trail that leads right into Delamere Forest.

Trail Centre Wise it's Llandegla, 35 mintues in the car

Mendips - from door
Quarry - 15 minutes by car
Cheddar and Burrington - 15 minutes by car
Quantocks - 50 minutes by car
CwmCarn - 1 hour 20 minutes by car
Exmoor - 1 hour 20 minutes by car
Afan - 2 hours by car

Pretty good really, I'm lucky.

Llandegla is the nearest man-made trail, about 1 hours drive away. 🙂
Home is on the edge of the Peaks so natural trails are half a mile. Just ride and ride for miles, all day if needs be mostly off road. 🙂

Surfr - Member

martyntr - Member

Nant yr Arian....4 miles away..

Same for me.

Alright Dan me old chum..... 😉

Swinley forest, 1 Mile.

Rich:
I didnt know the old railway line carried on all the way to Telford - I usually get off at Gnosall where it crosses the canal and ride down to Wheaton Aston, from there the lanes into Penkridge and then pick the canal back to stafford through Acton Trussell back on to the Meadows where I live, could prob do it quicker than 3 hrs but there is some great scenery / wildlife to see and I always have a break at W/Aston..

I live in Central London, but am only about 30 mins ride from the riding mecca that is..

..Epping Forest.

Coed y Brenin - 5 mins
Marin - 30 mins
Penmachno - 20 mins
Climachx - 30 mins
Llandegla - 30 mins
Nant yr Arian - 45 mins
As much natural riding in Snowdonia as you like - from back door
6 Downhill Tracks within 30 mins.
I'm quite lucky really.

iolo ; 'Lucky'...you are absolutely ruined... 😉

Natural stuff - about 30 seconds from my door (and there are days and days of trails to play on). Trail Centre stuff - Carron Valley is 20 minutes away, Glentress about 1hr 10 and Laggan about 2 hours (which gets visited most often out of the trail centres).