Inspired by MTGs idea about people meeting up and showing each other around the riding thats to be had in their local area (not that I know of enough "good riding" where I am) just wondering where everyone is from?
I'm from Northampton (well just north of it..), and go to uni in Nottingham.
Somerset (Mendips)
"people meeting up and showing each other around the riding"
Indeed. Done this a few times, and it's fun.
No you're not Jeremy, don't lie!
Where are you [i]really[/i] from? 😉
shit stick no where - 12 miles from stonehaven
Planet Ork
Cannock Staffs.
Centre of the universe.
Notlob
Just down from the centre of the universe in Tamworth.
Lurking in Aberystwyth, came here in 2005 to go to Uni...just haven't quite left yet!
Hmmmm.
Do you mean "where are you from" or "where do you live"?
I'm FROM Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
But I LIVE in Farnborough, Hampshire
🙂
Ex-Sheffielder, now north of the border in Edinburgh and steelin' yur wimminz.
Well, one of them anyway 
PeterPoddy - Member
Hmmmm.Do you mean "where are you from" or "where do you live"?
Where do you live is the more accurate question 😛 Didn't occur to me as the the 2 places are the same for me!
Northamptonshire here as well, as far as I can tell we don't have any good off road riding to share 🙁 Have some nice road routes though, combined two today taking me about 46 miles.
Sunny Cornwall,Near Redruth
Just down the road from LLndegla,used to ride there when it was just twigs.
I come from Birmingham but I live in Devon.
Born in Macclesfield, Live in Whaley Bridge(in the cut out bit of the Peaks)
Sunny Devon 😀
Posh Cheshire boy now slumming it somewhere in Staffordshire (not choke on stench) thank god! 😀
I'm a southerner but I live in Saltaire.
I'm from and live in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Born in Singapore, but now staying in Livingston.
Oop north.
Pretoria.
Now living in Cheshire.
Also from sunny Devon.
Another from Fife.
Just off the northern slopes of the Col du Clent on the northern edge of Worcestershire.
Northamptonshire here as well, as far as I can tell we don't have any good off road riding to share 🙁
glad I'm not the only one struggling to find places to ride!
Sussex born and raised m'lord.
I'm from Earth.
I used to live in Northampton. I think we used to mostly play in Badby Woods and Harlstone Firs. I always thoughts there were lots of bridle ways out towards Daventry and towards Spratton but nothing really interesting.
I'm from Earth.
Sure? 😉
I live in the east kunt centryside
Central Manchester, nearest bit of grass is Old Trafford
I was born & live in North East Lincolnshire.
Not ideal mountain bike terrain, but you can still have fun on bikes in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Anglesey, but now live between Mold and Chester.
I live in between Cannes and Grasse. Basically close to Nice;
born Leeds
school Wakefield
uni Bradford
now live near Bradford
well travelled, me
juan, fancy a swap?
You would give up the delights of Beautiful Bradford, such as the Alhambra and the famous cinematic location of Buttershaw, for some boring place in France? 😕
Yer bloody mad, you!
That London originally. Not now, thank goodness!
You've moved down in the World, CG. 🙁
Garstang,lancashire
scotland
Oop North now [ well most of my life ingoring a decade travelling]
'I'm from all over..'
think you are confusing being all over the place with where you are from 😆
originally from york
then up in scotcheggland at a university-which-cannot-be-mentioned-on-here
and now morzine, in the door to the sun (portes do soleil) (its quite sunny here)
may be moving again in a month or so elsewhere in the alps.
You would give up the delights of Beautiful Bradford, such as the Alhambra and the famous cinematic location of Buttershaw, for some boring place in France?
hell yeah. Been to that part of France, it's lovely. and the sun shines. still plenty of hills for MTBing, when I can be bothered
Bet you can't get a decent curry there though, eh?
Born in Sheffield
moved to Luton when I was 4
then Gloucestershire
then Ashbourne
then Monsal Head
then Matlock
then Elton
currently Darley Dale
(everywhere after Gloucestershire being Derbyshire)
The Elton part was by the time I was 8 and lived there until I was 23, when I moved to Darley Dale with Mrs STR (hitting 40 this year)
Born in Banbury, brought up in Gloucester
Born in Leeds , lived in a tiny village in Leicestershire from 3 to 6 then back to Leeds where I've been ever since. Currently living near the airport.(noisy)
Born in Edinburgh
10yrs in South Queensferry then
7yrs in Holbrook, Ipswich at boarding school,
3yrs in Aberystwyth experimenting with bad dancing, crap clothes and snakebite,
then back to the Burgh til now.
Bought house so no plans to go anywhere.
Southern softy here. Wiltshire born, Hampshire bred. 8)
Northamptonshire here as well, as far as I can tell we don't have any good off road riding to share
*wonders if the 35 miles off road today counts as good riding*
Born in Bath, but soon moved to Guildford, then Belfast, Woking, Newcastle-u-Lyme, Coventry and now back in Guildford. Keep telling myself I should move, after 30 years, but there are too many good things about living here.
My home town is Stirling but I currently reside in the godforsaken wastes of Wiltshire.
Born in Wirksworth, now live in Crumpsall north of Manchester.
*wonders if the 35 miles off road today counts as good riding*
I'm more of a downhiller-type than xc so I guess it's always gonna be a bit disappointing round here! Where are you riding?
birmingham but live in dorset now.
*wonders if the 35 miles off road today counts as good riding*
where where where? 😛
*wonders if the 35 miles off road today counts as good riding*
*wonders if off road is the same as mountain biking* 😉
Born Tredegar now living in Peebles.
The same place as 'MartynS' and, as it turns out, Josh Bryceland.
Smell_it - there's some ace riding close to you. If you need some tips let me know.
From Hull (well, Hessle but almost nobody has heard of it). Live in Walton on Thames in mountainous Surrey.
northampton here as well......plenty of miles worth of off road around just not hilly stuff if thats what you mean
Whitley bay 🙂
Now near wallingford in oxon
Born in Fife, brought up in Edinburgh and now living in Saltaire
Bedmaker-I hate you,I really do 😀
Arrugut
Or as the people of Arrugut call it - Harrogate. Originally from Knaresborough though so I managed to travel 4 miles in 43 years.
Isle of Mull all my days, can't complain.
From North Hampshire, live Dorset seaside.
Bet you can't get a decent curry there though, eh?
with a decent recipe you can get a decent curry anywhere 🙂





