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It looks like the area around Dunster should be riddled with singletrack

Answered your own question there. I can email you some routes if you have Memory Map?

Don't know what route you are referring to but I normally have a fantastic time around tooling around the singletrack of Dunkery, Horner, Selworthy, North Hill and Porlock.

Snaps is Mr Exmoor

Sponging: Please can you email me those? I'd like to explore the Dunkery woods area too. Email in profile

I'd love to have those memory map files

we started at Selworthy, then over to Dunster, all on the bridleway network. Most fun was the descent to Dunster, I took the steep option, made it half way down and bottled out on the last bit, as I didn't fancy maiming the labrador coming upo the other way.

The bridleway that descends from the Wotton Common ridge SE above "Grabbist Hill" on the 25k map is lush (from SS 97905 43702), I guarantee you wont have any complaints about that trail.

There's also a nice fairly techie drop NE from SS 98955 40922 - a route described in the hardback Southwest Mountain Bike guide book (coincidentally, ride 29)

I'd like to know about more stuff around there (especially other descents off Wotton Common) and whether Combe Sydenham is worth a visit

If you go up wooton common then you could descend the stony sunken roadway into wooton courtney. It's full of loose rocks and has some corners. Is quite scary at speed. But I still hold that the top stuff is around horner and porlock.

I think we should have another exmoor forum ride in the spring, around when the tea shops re open.

I'm up for that. Rode Horner for the first time properly this summer and thought it was amazing, almost alpine in a few places - steep, rocky, tight switchbacks (just not long enough....)

Dunster made a nice change though.

Buzz - I've ridden up that lane, thought it would be better in the other direction...

Also rode some descent stuff around Periton Hill to Minehead, but dropped too much on fireroad to do it again

There are some cracking steep switchbacks into horner combe from webbers post . you can see the track marked on the OS. It is cheeky tho.There is another track descends from dunkery to webbers which is super tech followed by the fast trail that drops from webbers parallel to the combe down to horner. It makes a long long descent.

You talking about heading directly north from the top of Dunkery and dropping down to Dickys Path, the in and out of Aller Combe and Hollow Combe to the start of Dunster Path and Webber post?

Might head down there on thursday if the weathers good for a cheeky midweek birthday ride!

buzz - that lane (roadway lane on the map) is mental at speed down in to Wooton courtney, plenty of vert action on the corners!
I've been starting @ Webbers post lately & using Minehead as a cake & beer stop as the Horner tea gardens have shut for the winter now.
There is some good stuff in Worthy woods accessed from the tollroads in Porlock toward Culbone.
But the best single track decent is still a close call between North Hill (very fast with gully jumps & switchbacks) Hawk combe (just flows & flows for over 2 miles) Grannys ride (brake tester) Worthy combe, Ley hill etc.

Any chance of posting gpx please

Hawk combe is great it goes on and on . I'll take a look at worthy woods next time. Ta for the tip off.

Agent: stand at summit of dunkry an look north east you see a diagonal path heading toward webbers. Set off north then take the first right path. It's higher than dickys. It's slow power tech in places with lots of ruts, rocks and water bars and holes. Bloody hard work staying upright. It gets faster near the end.