What do you call your local loop?

This is how me and Derek Starship (with some input from terrahawk) would describe The Nob End Run.

Woot!
Mere Kat
Carpet Climb
13 Arches
Molyneux Brow
Double Dog Sprint (past Shotgun Ma Larkin’s)
Hurst Woods
Old Railway
Cable Bridge Descent
G String Bridge
Paris-Roubaix
Nutter’s Ridge
The Hill Of A Thousand Deaths
Nob End
Pack Horse Bridge
Bolton Sh1t Factory
Clifton Marina (either straight up or via the jumping bridges)
Pilky’s
The Great Plain
Home

road

Any variable of 90kms of legal rights of way on a 88sqkm area

Shite, boring, canal, council estate…

brian

‘Local loop’… 😕

Brian? Like it.

I think I may refer to a local 20 miler as “Keith”.

😀

The “usual route”

Water of leith, puke hill, Phantoms cleugh, Maidens cleugh. pistachio way, Kinleith Farm, Mushrooms, rocky chute, water of leith

alsastion
back scrape
the gallops
ball bearing
Happy Valley
The Wife
Shoulder Break
Wet Thursday
And you too.
Home

Given that I can do a coast to coast in ooh, around 10 minutes, basically the whole darn country is my local loop.

😆 “The Wife”

1,2,3,4,5,etc………Goes up to 15.
Took me ages to think of them 8)

The “usual route”

Kinleith Farm, Pistachio Way, Maidens Cleugh, Phantoms Cleugh, Puke Hill

😀

road – off road – road

or

road – fuckoffbighill – road – bigfuckoffhill repeat adnausum if its a road ride

There are 2. Right hand loop, left hand loop. Oh no, hang on. there’s left hand Extension, as well.

Naming bits of the countryside in “oh so amusing ways” always struck me as ever so slightly twatish

Star Singletrack
Valley Path
Playground steps
Bus Stop of Certain Doom
Cinder Path (top or bottom)
Under Railway
Climb of Slime
Choice of Old Tramway, Normal Way, Prince Philip Woods and Hedgehog Rim
Stone of Destiny
Almond Bridge (though actually it’s not over the Almond, but I thought it was)
Shortcut Path
Back of Sewerage Works
Badger Path
Dan’s Steps
MacPuppy Path
Sustrans Path
Pothole Path
Choice of Ned Estate Run or Knacker Chipshop
Buckfast Path
Lodge St John Gate
Back of Cemetary
Behind the Houses
Dadump Steps
River Path
Star Singletrack

And can I say, it is riding lovely at the moment.

Whistler, Verbier, Les Gets, Nepal. I have a teleporter.

nickc – Member

Naming bits of the countryside in “oh so amusing ways” always struck me as ever so slightly twatish

You have a point, but round my gaff, it’s easier than trying to describe one of the multiple paths between certain locations.

nickc – Member
Naming bits of the countryside in “oh so amusing ways” always struck me as ever so slightly twatish

Cheers. So i’m a **** am I?
Maybe I’ll name a bit after you.

Firetrack
Top Ten
Aquaduct
Rocky One
Turnip
Fast One
Damn Wall
Derwent Edge
Firetrack
Finn’s Falls
Firetrack
Swoopy

Knackered just thinking about it.

the ridiculous faux-BC style “inator” suffix is popular with (the rather childish!) Trail Snail Racing at the moment.
Hence, amongst other more normal sounding names, we frequently ride the:
Vasinator
Diversionator
Herman Schmerman Berminator
Badgernator
Barbinator
Gorseinator
oh, and (to be said in a powerful schwartzenegger voice) Man Line.

what is funny is the names other people give to the same trails.

Thats not fair, I wanted to call our local route Steve. But someone already said Brian, which as it happens, is the name I want to give a dog.

A bit like robs cat, Peter.

I have a bit of the route I know as ‘death hill’ (down the side from hope cross, stay on the right side, heading left…) not because anyone has died either, its just a bit G-Narly for my *rad* self.

Naming stuff just makes life easier,,better than “that bit in the woods” etc..
Merlins
Llandibley
186
Ledge of life
Narnia

I’ve no idea, on our local nightrides I still haven’t a clue. We just cycle along a road/big path then seemingly at random dive into the trees and emerge on singletrack. I occasionally realise where I am when we hit land marks like the sea or the airport!

round’t’village

Don’t worry Harry, it’s just an opinion. I don’t do it, you do. life goes on.

Erm, riding?

I suppose if you ride the same bits of track all the time with the same people it works but otherwise not really.

The only ones I can think of are

Nemesis
The Ice Cream run (now used universally)
Nemesis 2

Mary townley loop western section, over to little brians, round the res, back over to crown point, cheeky trail round clough bottom res woods and back to the jolly sailor for a light ale…………….perfect

Other people named all of mine… I’ve been clearing a new path, or maybe reopening an old one, around a local reservoir which I call Trumpet Weed, because it’s so rooty. (How do you deal with trumpet weed? You root it oot)

The Quantocks 😀

Mint sauce.

‘ I’m just nipping out, love’………………….which has a bit on it called ‘Screaming Farmers wife’ – you figure. 🙂