Trailforks has lots of stuff in Scotland but south of the border it’s a bit of a desert: there’s just six trails in Swaledale marked and that’s pretty much all that’s there for the whole of the Yorkshire Dales.
Not necessarily a bad thing. Some places have a perfectly functioning local riding scene with local riders and landowners either oblivious to each other or in various states of tolerance/animosity.
Then the outside world finds out about it and it gets busy. Sometimes that results in a very open Tweed Valley, other times a more constricted Swinley, most of the time bulldozers come in and flatten everything.
Great if it’s showing legal trails, not so great if the trails are a bit more discreet.
chakaping
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Trailforks is awesome for exploring in Scotland.
Less awesome south of the border where access laws appear to make it problematic.
Trailforks is awesome for exploring in England.
Less awesome north of the border where the lack of midge warnings make it problematic.
On a serious note, Scottish access laws allow you to ride wherever, but not dig new ones. And let’s be honest here, most of what we’re discussing are mountain bike trails, not paths that have just been found. You can find those on OS maps (even if they don’t then appear on the ground).