The best trail in the UK

If you're after a good long ride in that area, give this a bash:

It has absolute DEATH written all over it. Hard work mind.

Ullock Pike – have you ever looked back at the top section off the summit and thought that in that rarest of ways, it looks even steeper from below? marvellous!

I always find it's the drop off to the right that's really distracting 🙂

Sanny to do Rodinson we basically follow the first 2/3's of the Newlands round. Which is little town, onto Maiden moor, High spy, then drop into Dalehead tarn(another great down), carry onto Dalehead(tough) then across littledale Edge to Robinson. Then from buttermere up Sail beck and down Rigg Screes. That takes us 4hrs roughly, if you try and add into that it'll get big. One option would be to go up gasgale then carry up onto grisedale and down Hobcarton, but thats a fair old carry at the end of a tough day .OR, if you went coledale > Whiteless way you'd be heading in the wrong direction but you could join Sail beck from Whiteless breast. I recon either detour would add at least 2.5 hrs to the ride.

Paulrockliffe

Now that is a ride! I bet you'd need three shredded wheat in the morning for that!

Sanny

Yes, but you have the flexibility of dropping one, two or three mountains at the end if you get too tired, it's one I've got planned for a trip in June or July time.

Just realised all the old threads are back after the site maintenance, thought I’d stir this one up again!.

Agree with the Torridon – coire Lair – achnashellach – Coulags – Annat. Brilliant, the Coire Lair in particular, mind blowing stuff. Had a cracking ride on Arran at the weekend, great day. 2 or 3 awesome descents, combined with amazing scenery, great company, unseasonably mild weather (it’s always mild on the east coast of the island) and some Arran blonde ale to finish. Sweet.

Hi Nobeer, on Arran in May/June, any chance of some dets

Cheers

Ben lomond is illegal to ride?

Not as far as I know. Loads of people ride it and the same access laws should apply to it as everywhere else in Scotland. Maybe the landowner argued it was illegal before the Countryside Reform Act came in but not now.

As for the best Trail in the UK? I’ve not ridden enough to say really but I like my local trails because I can keep tweaking them and practising to go faster and I can ride them from my house. I’m suspecting Ben Lomond could become one of my favourites when I ride it for the first time this summer. Everyone says how good it is.