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Hello
I am travelling down from London to Cornwall for the weekend in a couple of weeks for a family bash, but with also having the Friday off before hand - I am looking to do a decent MTB ride on the way down and thinking of Dartmoor or Exmoor.
For anyone who has ridden on both - which is best?
Looking for a 20-25 mile loop, some good views and scenery, some decent singletrack, great downhill blasts, and a bit of techie stuff thrown in (nothing too gnarly though). Don't want much do I?
Any recommendations appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Quantocks.
Or lustleigh cleave loop.
loop around princetown/burrator reservoir? havent done qauntocks but that loop or lustleigh are just lovely
Quantocks is probably the best "bang for your buck" it's all either climb or descent, there are sea views and some great swoopy singletrack.
The burrator loop mentioned above is lovely as long as the weather is nice although the widowmaker descent is the star and the second half of the loop is "look at the view" filler really.
Exmoor has some great stuff but it's not as condensed as the quantocks. Superb coastal views on the loop mbuk did a few months ago from valley of the rocks and a couple of really good sections. There's great singletrack on the wood above porlock weir from below Pitt farm and through shillet wood. Horner wood is just there and selworthy and Dunkers have great views and riding too.
If you do the Princetown burrator loop, start at burrator and do the climb to Princetown first.
Quantocks +1
If you do the Princetown burrator loop, start at burrator and do the climb to Princetown first.
+1
Lustleigh area for sure, with a local guiding or some kinda tech sat nav thingy tracking all the fun gnarr stuff. Awesomes.
Lustleigh cleave for me. Was a loop in STW, expect the GPX is available somewhere?
Cheers for replies, thanks.
Think I'll get google webbing for a lustleigh cleave loop then - or if anyone is able to post a link.
I've got maps and a GPS.
Many thanks, Jim
Lustleigh loop or Burrator, both fantastic places to ride.
Exmoor is great, better than the QT's in IMO, start out of Porlock, a little lumpy on the way out but great rides back in.
love Porlock.
Back of Minehead up over to Dunkery Beacon great.Quantocks are good love Dunkery Beacon always windy up there.
+3 for Porlock - best riding in the SW
I was in Somerset last month, edge of exmoor looked amazing, I was there rallying though, dunkery beacon, stoke perro, back of minehead, porlock all ace, so many bridleways, green lanes and open forestry, sign posts everywhere, if I lived there I'd never be off my bike.
Just found this - bit late but hey ho. I ride a fair bit on the quantocks - it's awesome cause it always seems dry, or dries out rather quickly, and no one ever seems to go there...I've hardly seen anyone there in the past 10 odd yrs I've been hitting the trails there. I tend to stick to the west quantoxhead end. Not ventured over to exmoor but sounds like I'll have to! is there a loop/route somewhere to look at for an idea?
It would be great if somebody could post up some routes around the Porlock area.
I've been there a few times but just made my own routes up.
Well if you find any do share, there must be enough round here that hit those trails...
Good evening lads, I rode a cracking loop from porlock yesterday was a mix of singletrack open moors and some fire road climbs finished with a cracking decent down bossington into porlock, around 45km if i can get a link up to it I will
Sounds fun. A link or a map would be awesome, cheers! 🙂
Exmoor for me. I'm lucky enough to be spending 50% of my time living in Porlock at the moment. Great riding (mtb and road )and walking. Even in the busy holiday times its quiet on the trails if you avoid horner water and dunkery beacon.
ifra - sounds great, do you have a gpx by any chance?
Apologies for what may sound stupid but I am not sure what a gpx file is, I have it recorded on strava but not too sure how to export that, I know one of the other lads had a garmin does that export to gpx?, if so I could ask him
If you open up the ride on the Strava website, there is a little spanner symbol to the left. Click this and you have the option to 'Export GPX' which will allow you to save the GPX file somewhere on your computer. Et voila! That GPX file can then be emailed to friendly (EDIT: and massively grateful) STW'ers to enable them to follow your route when they are on holiday in North Devon later in June 🙂
Email has been sent, hopefully it works