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I would still be doing XC across the moors using an OS map if I hadn't dismantled and sold my titanium Global hardtail. Nowadays I still do XC riding, sometimes using an OS map but I stick to the tarmac and cover much greater distances, coming home clean and enjoying my naughty Italian hooligan bike.
I tried a trail centre once and got so disgusted at the litter of plastic bottles and so bored with the sameness that after half an hour I shot off into the country and found a different route back to the car park.
I've sold everything but the 26" wheels, which are on Ebay right now.
yep, from Raleigh Grifter in the late 70s to the Swift, XC still very much part of my life...and still finding new stuff!
Referencing the OP, I have to say it's all I do too.
I live in Dover, which for Kent is reasonably hilly, being made up of a number of valleys. The bridleway network is very dense too, so you can spend a lot of time linking them up, but it does involve a fair amount of road time too.
It feels like it would be a waste of bike riding anything with suspension tbh.
Yes but usually whilst getting between gnarlier bits or hunting out gnarlier bits! 😛
I did try some exclusively old school riding on holiday in France - and got bored and went trail hunting. I like trail centres and uplift venues a lot but there's something satisfying about trying to Flow down steep paths that were never meant for bikes (the phone capitalised flow but I can live with that...) or finding something secret built in the woods.