Hyped trails that you found a bit meh

Miserable bunch of wizards sleeves, esp like the rather ride on the road bit. What for the buzz of nearly getting killed by some fat bint in a people mover? Most of this thread sounds like spoiled kids unhappy with their Christmas pressies.

Someone find me some great natural woodland trials in the North West please.

When you say North West, where do you mean? To me the North West (of England) is Cumbria and at a push a few bits just over the Yorkshire border, which if you know where to look has all sorts of natural woodland descents but they are not as well known as the equally stunning natural mountain and valley riding.

Lift passes cost about the same per-day as they do per-week in the Alps.

£22 a week? thats bloody good value!!

It’s very expensive to get to, stay at and eat and drink. When the local riders are having their stuff sent over the from same place in Northern Ireland we are, you know it’s on the pricy side!

$2CAD to £1GBP its cheap at the moment

There are lots of trails outside of the park, but you’ll need to earn your descents, which is fine, but it’s less smiles per hour compared to lift-accessed stuff and you are on Holiday..

Yes you are. A riding holiday

Trails in the park are by and large VERY wide and VERY smooth, if you think a UK Trail Centre is too groomed, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Go during/after crankworx. aint no smooth trails then.

Yeah I understand the Cut Gate thing. As a local I have been riding it for a lot of years and was very surprised to see it raved about in mags and on forums. I certainly wouldn’t travel further than the 20mins it takes me to get there and I don’t even do that very often.

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Some nice bits of trail but so disappointing to find myself at the bottom waiting for a bus after 10 mins on the bike. Not my idea of bike riding.

You do know you don’t have to take the bus, right 😆

When you say North West, where do you mean?

I currently live just outside Oldham.

By the way, my thoughts on the trials I’ve ridden should be taken very lightly. On the whole I love riding my bike anywhere.

I really liked a lot of Cut Gate, but it never really seemed to get going as much as it promised.

Better than “meh” IMO though.

There’s loads of ace riding near Oldham if you look. Dovestones and Blackstone Edge are great (with a bit of cheek thrown in).