[Closed] A few Southerners go to the Quantocks for some fun! (Video!)

I enjoyed that! I had a day in the Quantocks a few years ago....Don't remember it being as good as that though? I'd better go and have another look. Is this stuff inside a fairly small area? (Great use of an old Beat track too!)

Yep, all quite compact!

Sharki wrote this recently:

[i]Here's my brief guide to the Quantock's top trails.
I've always said Bincombe is my favourite, perhaps because it's not overly rode. It's a trail of subtle incline that once you get to know it, becomes a twisty playful ribbon of giggles, features to get you flicking the ass end out, jinking left and right as you hurtle inches past tree stumps and roots laying in wait for your bad forward vision. From top to bottom, 3-5mins of shits and giggles, thrills and spills. Pure natural fun.
Another favourite will always be Somertons top section, but it's been getting wider as the years go by as riders run wide scrubbing out a new rut. At it's best it's a fast and furious descent to the tree line along a moorland piece of single track, the worn shallow rut means that when the turns come, you can get the front tyre to stick so you don't lose momentum, and after the slight pedally bit around back side the trail is just pure bliss as at speed you'll get a little drift as you flick left, right, left, left and left mind the rock then into the trees, 80m and slight(18" step) into rooty braking bumps, sharp right, moist butt and follow the wider track alongside the stream, it gets pedally but crank it and enjoy.
Weacombe, mind the drop to the right most the way along it's mile and a half length, though it's not on the trail itself, so eyes ahead (once they've stopped rattling inside your head from the stuttery first 150m) Pin it at your own peril, Weacombe is just waiting for the over enthusiastic it will bite, It's non steep and non technical, it's just FAST!
Frog combe, traverse or Roller coaster. Not an obvious to find trail but if you survive the initial steepish rooty run in, the reward along the traverse is a very natural twisty piece of 400mm trail, that joins the main frog combe trail near the bottom. I like because it bit me tearing my ACJ and collapsing my lung, so I bit it back, harder.
Smiths is a love hate affair for me. Love it because it has a good mix, grass, roots, stoney, hard pack and stream crossings.
Hate because I always have a bad feeling about it once I let go of the brakes on the mid section. It's not a comfy landing...And the climb out usually bitch's at me.
From Beacon hill trig, it's a mile long.
If you want pure speed, followed by a burger, you'll be after the descent North of the Hill fort (Dowsborough) It's wide, there's a few bumpy bits on the first hundred metres then it's loose stone till it rises for moment, about enough to gather your breath then it's down, down, more loose stuff making a drifty left and then into the trees to a gate. Careful in there, there's monsters lurking on the ground ready to spit you off course and watch the long right hander at the bottom, trees hurt.
Did you say your favourites? Then let me continue...
Slaughterhouse, Concrete block, Dead womans ditch north side, and the Hare knapp splits (two choices) even holly bush gives me the necessary smiles.
And that's just on the Heath and combe.
The Forestry has a lot on offer too but these aren't named so are not so easy to find. There's Sam's track and the Chimney dropping into Great wood, then in Cockercombe there's around 40 DH runs of varying difficulty, most can be ridden on a HT IMO.
That's enough to keep most people busy for a weekend or two.
Enjoy[/i]!

Just grab a map and find those names!

Lovely and it looks like you found that dry day in September 😉
All the usual antics i see and great to see you remembered the cheeky link to get onto the great bear then to the 'Bin'.

Gotta love the Campbell rooms for groups, you can't get better..

Shown by the master... 😉

Antics were shown in a small way! Want to go back again!

And yes to the campbell rooms, we love em' 😉

ps. thanks for the text above!

you lucky man. Trails look lovely.
I went last new year - a magical place imo.

Great video 🙂 just out of interest which side of the road is bincombe and how do you get back onto the hills?
Turn right then right again into great wood?
Amazed how I rode there for years and never found this beaut.
It's an amazing place to ride.

Bin combe is on the east, and we used it as the final descent back to our residence!

It is easy to miss!

I love Bin. A superb twisting piece of singletrack rising and falling. Taken at speed ou can't quite see what's next and just trust the trail is there. Looks like you had fun

looks good. I must come along next year, fingers crossed the house will be finished by then.

Three options of ways out of bin,
1 straight along the muddy track in the bottom, through gate, over crossing up steps, left onto road, next right up over hill down together side, find pub.
2, down past the safe, under tree then up to the left, steady climb and after bob and Rog's prickly hole, sharp left and mulchy climb up to Walfords Gibbet, then follow the road west back towards dead woman's. ditch.
3, drop into old river bed at the bottom of bincombe, tother side of the embankment.(you shouldn't of desended that side)and ride back the way you came.

Thanks sharki. Is the start down the road from concrete block on the right hand side?

Yes, take the next left though and ride through the puddles to the lone tree in a small clearing at top of ladies combe. Look for a cutting in the bank, drop to the road from there, cross over and stay left of the bank. A few fallen trees are beginning to mess with flow further down the trail.
Most of all, enjoy.