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mine is the right fork on flegere' to le savoyez in chamonix
Legal? Scalextric, off the back of Wavering Down in the Mendips.
Cheeky? That'd be telling...
either legal/cheeky. your fave
Bowderdale:
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We don't have much here in the Peaks, so most of it is 'cheeky' so I'm not telling.
Here's a picture of me on it.
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The decent from Minch Moor into the Yarrow Valley is most excellent.
Oi! Elliptic.
The first rule about Mendip is you don't talk about Mendip.
The second rule about Mendip is, err.., you'd better have good mud tyres?!
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Bat Cave route on Blackamoor
Back route to the Barn on Win Hill
The newly named 'Beasts Brother' off Win Hill (new find)
Lots of not legit stuff in in the Peaks
you'd better have good mud tyres?!
Definitely gonna need them after this weeks rain.. 😯
I'm about to go to the garage to do the necessaries for tomorrow.
May see you guys up there.
Too much choice but recently some top class "cheeky" stuff.. 😉
Its about all there is to ride round here..
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'Flightpath' at CyB
Probably my local, Mark of Zorro at the moment. Reachable in a few minutes ride from the front door:
Llandegla
So hard to choose!
This summer I've been really loving Pipedream at Les Arcs.
But I've got to go for my on-my-doorstep option: [url= http://www.whiteroomchalet.com/mtbvideo.htm ]The Thin Red Line[/url]
Caddon Bank at Innerleithen is still right up there too.
Minch Moor is one of my favourites, but is miles away, so local wise, I'm loving a cheeky one on Pitch Hill, with a couple of doubles and a near vertical descent onto a fireroad. Fast, technical and exciting.
I was thinking about this yesterday when I was out on the trails. There's some trails around Glasgow which I'm very sentimental about and would probably call as my UK favourites. More for the good times than the trails themselves though.
Other than that I have to say it's this trail, (click for the video if you want)
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I've been finding and clearing small sections so that the whole descent is now perfect. I ride it a lot at lots of different speeds and it's fantastic. I've coached learners down it and had Rowan Sorrel nonchalantly buzzing my back tire when I was going as fast as I could possibly go!
Cheeky, sneaky, not telling!
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Hitman, Nelson, BC
Sumo's arse into Morzine!
elliptic scalextric is that towards crooks peak or the other direction ?
Probably Grannys Garden in Les Arcs. Not sure about UK really. I think I've ridden Bowderdale, which was ace. I do prefer me singletrack to be wooded though really.
Bart's Track at Innerleithen. Or (complete opposite) the descent off Minchmoor on XC trail.
i have my local fave - but it takes 2hr45' riding to get to.
so worth the effort however 😀
my other fave is super g into hit squad - i love the speed and flow.........:D
for me it's all about the singletrack........
how i dream of dusty trails........ 🙁
Quantocks, north side of frog combe. A thin ribbon of slightly DH singletrack that can be ridden flat out, off the brakes as fast as you dare.
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The blast back through blacka through the ford near dore, untill they went and stuck a gate in the middle of it :0(
Iron Keld descent in the lakes, it's got everything however fast you want to hit it.
Peatpits wood and is about to be destroyed 🙁
This, it's over 30mins!
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La Grave, France
Glen Tilt
The western slope of Noel famau is great and fast if you don't mind loads of sheep shite in your face...
Brechfa, Raven Trail.
Its got everything, except a cake shop at the end of it 🙄
There are some good cheeky ones near me on tbhe South Downs but none of them are named 😉
Hare knapp on the tox....err or one of many sections in bin combe..errrr...maybe a somerton, or even random bits along triscombe single track..
Bawls, nothing stands out as my favourite, it's all good or very good.
Perhaps i just like ridin
Coulags to Annat,(Torridon)Easily the best Singletrack climb/decent I have ever done!
Dunfell to Blencarn in the High Pennines has to be one of my favourite decents. 😉
Bowderdale has everything, and is hard to beat.
Merlins',Hanchurch Woods.Excellent in both drections,rooty,tricky,fun.The day I don't enjoy it,I''ll pack it in.
parkin clough is my fave tech singletrack at the mo, loving the first moorland section from win hill down towards the res for a less scary but still fast and flowy fix.
High as a kite at Nant Yr Arian.
youll never catch me, im the gingerbread man
Headless Chicken.
Sidewinder @ Penhydd, Afan. Flat out fun 🙂
Mushroom Picker, Bike Village, France.
Steep, flowy, technical, one of those where you're pretty happy to clean it at all and when you manage to piece it all together at speed, you feel like ten men.
****in love it
Deer fence at Mabie, or final blast down the Marin as fast as poss.
in the uk one of my faves has got to be caddon bank for just good old plain easy fun
cant remember the name of the trail but It was in East Burke in Vermont USA. Brilliant trail would have been better on my bike rather than a hire bike!
I think the Lairig Ghru descent into Rothiemurchus is mine :
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I love Mushroom Pie at glentress, I wish I could name a cool "natural" trail or something harder or more impressive, but this little diversion is absolutely beautiful, it flows like nothing else I've ridden and if you get the pumps right you almost do the whole thing without a pedal stroke. Nice wee balance beams as well. Just lovely, good for the soul 😉 And then you reach the end and discover you've only descended about 20 feet, and you can get back to the start in 10 seconds, so I do laps 
northwind= sweet!
its about the size of the smile after mate
There is a really lovely bit of singletrack that someone has cut down to one of the car parks at pitmedden which I love.
A trail leading down from Schwarzsee near St Wolfgang in Salzkammergut, Austria.
Hungerhill Lane, Holymoorside (pre-sanitisation)
Stone Edge Quarry, Lower woods, Chesterfield
Bole Hill, Wingerworth, Chesterfield
Three trails which have never been matched for intensity (probably something to do with age and not having broken collar bones at the time)
This summer I've been really loving Pipedream at Les Arcs.......
Caddon Bank at Innerleithen is still right up there too.
Two excellent choices. Pipedream is still burnt onto the back of my retinas. Off to Inners the weekend after this. 🙂
Iain c that descent is great only done it once but and need to return
however my fave is sidewinder at afan full tilt in the dark! well that's where i have just been anyhow!
Most recent favourite has to be Ben Ime down to loch Long, in places it is sublime in others down right knee deep mud..... 3300 feet of decent is hard to beat.
After that there is a two minute section of mud, roots and rocks I have been slowly muscling down through a section of forestry above the town (shh, dont tell the local estate, the previous attempt was dug up by the estate foresters)
Dowies and most other bits of singletrack in the FOD, to many to choose from!
Really like the singletrack above Trevelez in the Alpujaras, quite different from most of the stuff round there in that it's undulating rather than steep, lovely.
Northwind - MemberI love Mushroom Pie at glentress, I wish I could name a cool "natural" trail or something harder or more impressive, but this little diversion is absolutely beautiful, it flows like nothing else I've ridden and if you get the pumps right you almost do the whole thing without a pedal stroke. Nice wee balance beams as well. Just lovely, good for the soul And then you reach the end and discover you've only descended about 20 feet, and you can get back to the start in 10 seconds, so I do laps
I've still not worked that one out. It's like one of those Escher drawings.
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Now that'd be a trail to ride. "Double black diamond- mandatory air and moebius northshore, suitable for experienced riders with good quality off road bikes and impaired spatial awareness"
+1 for the Lairig Ghru descent. It's like it was purpose made for bikes.
Iron Keld gets my vote too... more for some ace memories of the best ride ever. And a couple of jars in the Drunken Duck before hand probably helped.
I found a nice wee one at Woodland the other day too - very straight forward but a lovely flow... rather enjoyed it and will be back for another go I think.
Then there is Dumyat circa a few years back. Last time I was up there (before moving south) it had lost some of it's charm. But back when I moved to Stirling around 2001/2ish the descent down that main track was just stonking.
I have it on good authority that Parkamoor is a bit special too though, so shall try and get out there in the next couple of weeks to check it out.
damn, where's my lights. reading this makes me want to ride
Wimble Holme hill.
Another sweet Cheeky - the Lenah Valley trail, Mt Wellington, Tasmania:
(as always - much steeper than it looks in photos)
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Fairy Glen by Llandyrnog near Ruthin, fast as you dare with an angled bridge crossing that you could straightline, unfortunately they've now put a fence on it 🙁
The one just ahead of my front wheel......& just behind my back wheel... 😉
Col de Joux Vert down to L'Abricotine. If I can't get to sleep at night it is what I think of. Fantastic riding.
In GB the descent down to Dan yr Ogof caves in the Upper Swansea valley is VERY hard to beat indeed. And a bit niche too, very few people know it, let alone ride it.
But ambrose i'm scared of dinosaurs!
lookout mountain in the ochocos.
Cervinia race course in snow rain hail lighting ............
Mushroom Pie is awesome. Only ridden it once (half by mistake) and I loved it. Freezing cold and soaking wet but that put the smile back on my face!
Hmm it's probably either one of the Mega qualifier sections or something at Kirroughtree. Also, it's not that long but I love the bit of singletrack in Grizedale that goes over Breasty Haw (good name too).
I love Sidewinder and Hidden Valley at Afan.
And there's a great section in the Forest of Dean near Ellwood, that winds down either side of a little ditch. If it's got a name I don't know it, but it's great!
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In the UK, I still feel the love for the singletrack I started riding on - Upper Quarry in Ashton Court, Bristol - on a good day, there's just no better feeling than flying along it.
Locally, Grims ditch, including the cheeky section.
Otherwise, i think some of the stuff i rode at Pila 2 years ago was pure fun fun fun...
Almost makes me want to skip summer and go straight to summer alpinism! 😀
Can't think of just one.
Zig zags @ Afan, only ever done it as a night ride a couple of times 😀
Mark of Zorro @ Nant Yr Arian, is definitely worth a mention
Cwm Rhaeadr, it's short but very enjoyable
The descent that Ambrose mentions above is very good, but next time I'm not riding rigid and I'm taking lights!
I can't decide - too much to choose from...
Bit I always love on my regular run is the little stretch from Daisybank road to the Scout hut on Leckhampton Hill - not too technical or difficult but something you can really speed down. Its just twisty, turny, droppy, rooty fun!!! 🙂
The Cresta run with switchbacks in Spain
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Those 3 trails at Chezzie. Are they really that good as I have never cycled around there. I live in Derbyshire and I'm intrigued.
Black 8 or White 8 in Les Arcs (can't remember which is which, but they're both ace).
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From Bilsdale West Moor down towards Arnsgill ridge in the North York Moors. esp in the summer when its very over grown!
