[Closed] Name the best piece of singletrack in the (soft) South of England

Sorry but no...... it's all secret

but apart from those there really is nothing to touch leigh woods on a dry day mid summer with local knowledge.

had a conversation on this last week - a cousin from the north gets freaked out by the proximity of the trees and the constant uppydowny when riding with us.

Personally, i'm not fond of trails where you can see where you're going for miles..... but it's all riding so it's all good.... just different!

But our cousins from the north dont have the benefit of the mind altering beverage that is Black Rat cider..... google it 😉

one of the most fun bits I've ridden in the proper south! is "off piste" in Qe all down for about with two big drops at the end one of which is still to rich for my blood!!

SPAM races have enough for a fast and furious single track endorphin junky

north downs have some great trails. both naughty and non naughty.

"Go all the way". Leith Hill.

"Parklife". Holmbury. (Short but sweet).

PS: "Donnie Darko". Leith. ****in impossible without wings and a complete absence of fear of death...

I speak, of course, as a mere onlooker...

Hound tor/Manaton/Lustleigh Cleave area, Dartmoor.

Name the best piece of singletrack

Its called "The legbreaker" (named after my brothers experience on his first, and last, try at "this mountain biking lark") not on Dartmoor but 5 minutes ride from my front door down here in Cornwall, can't get much further south than that. (no more clues, it's a bit cheeky :wink:)

- time to defend the region...

Smart move posting on a Sunday afternoon when there will only be 'suvverners' around to post, all Northerners being out riding at the time. Liking your style 🙄 😉

herts shore

I know my way round Leith pretty well - which trails/where are Go all the way and Donnie Darko?

GB

Prob best not to post the locations on here...

Proper Bo on Pitch Hill. Fairly short but great fun.

There's a little trail on Tunnel Hill which also makes me moist.

The Shire Rack on the Wiltshire/ Dorset border (literally) I ride as often as I can.

100% cheeky, goes on for miles and rarely do I meet ramblers. Bluebells by the acre in May.

The Quantocks...end of thread!

"The Quantocks" is not a piece of singletrack. Its a case of ______combe (insert name of favourite). A whole new thread.

Franks Tank - Purbeck

gee - Member

I know my way round Leith pretty well - which trails/where are Go all the way and Donnie Darko?

GB

You can link from the top of Leith at the play area next to the cricket pitch, via Summer Lightning, alongside Wolven's Lane and then The Rookery "all the way" to the bottom.

I'll let [i]you[/i] have the fun of finding out how to link them.

"Donnie" is a secret.

😉

i like the decent near corfe castle, purbeck.

Ladies Edge, Stert Coombe and some stuff I rode around Leith Hill last year are all pretty good.

Thanks - I know that one. Now for Darko...

GB

HI daveatextremistsdotcouk,
can you send me some direction on how to find the shire rack.

Cheers

daveatextremistsdotcouk - another person who would be interested too. Thanks.

daveatextremistsdotcouk - another person who would be interested too. Thanks.

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There ya go. I normally ride the BW from Woodcutts then follow to where it says Fort at the top right.

Best combined with the Winkelbury DH (to the NW) and the byway from what used to be Madonna's (now Guy Ritchie's) Ashcombe estate into Tollard Royal.

Thank you so much 🙂 Will be exploring Wiltshire once it has dried out a bit.

Well that'll be a 3m wide quagmire come spring then. Nice. It's also a foot path is it not?

Ho Chi Min, Leigh Woods, when it's dry and dusty (about 6.2 days a year on average) ridden flat out is rather nice.

Most of the Quantock singletrack I've ridden has been mint, ace, wicked <insert suitable adjective>

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Winkelbury.

As you suggest, it needs some serious drying out. That photo was May 09.

Ewan, it might be FP, but I ride Shire Rack with no guilt. I've ridden it for over 12 years and only met walkers on two occasions.

Donny Darko - north east of the tower, been there for ages, a jump off a stump and a series of gap jumps, or singletrack. You can roll DD no probs and do the singletrack, if hucking ain't your thang.

Fave/best trail - I can't tell you, it's the way it is now unfortunately. [don't know if I actually have ONE tbh]

summer lightning downhill
wave of mutilation / mangrove alley
abba zabba, numbshull, blind terror etc
champagne super nova
myra hindley
perimeter trail
john steep
barrys and return of the jedi back in the day before it was trashed...
rad lane

to name a few 😀

nearest to me, the Split Penis trail, Lickey hills, starts off smooth through the waist height gorse, flick right into the trees, bit of off camber, slick roots in the wet, try and carry some speed, then slam on the anchors to control the entrance into the rain gully of death, contains a few drops,stay off the brakes surface usually wet and loose, you'll just lock up and loose control, over the back so far the rear tyre is in danger of catching the shorts, hairpin right then left to negotiate the fallen tree, shoot over the path and plunge over the blind lip (usually has a newly built kicker to tighten the sphincter once you can see where you are going) then down onto the bridlepath and climb back up and repeat.

short but sweet

the old rad lane was good but the holy trail was better 🙂

Lots of good trails in the south east. Not many rock but lots of trees and roots!

Jedi 😥
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No idea what it's called but the one that goes from the cricket pitch down deliverance through those dark woods and onto summer lightning is very good especially in the wet...

Holy trail god i remember that, never had the guts/Skillz to ride it though

Minton Batch.

+1 Franks Tank. There's also the one that runs at the bottom of the ridge into Corfe (not sure of the name) which can be stupidly fast in the summer.
Collingbourne Wood when it's dry.

nothing round here at all.

of my limited knowledge: the short section of singletrack oop the quantocks, that heads from the carpark at the "heart shapped lake" towards the "chimney" alongside the road, and then pops out into the road so has had to be gated at the bottom.

flowy, rooty, bermed turns into the bank.
only 50m long. rather swish though.

Some of the Triscombe DH trails are really good. Proper steep, rooty tech and slippery 😯

Woodman - If you fancy it were riding Leith tomorrow night. Starveal carpark for a 19.30 start ?

Would like to find those trails you speak of as I'm still fairly new to Leith. Will have to try & join you lot on one of your weekend rides up there when its dried out a bit 🙄

Si, I've been riding the area on a Sat lately - lunchtime/early afternoon start, you're all more than welcome to join me sometime. I think I may be otherwise hungover this Sat though! (I wouldn't neccessarilly do those sort of trails with a B'mtb Sunday group though).

Thanks for the invite tomorrow - don't think I can make it though. 🙂

Drop me an email when you're all up that way on a Sat next. (addy in profile)

The M1 (North bound) 😆

The M1 (North bound)

Singletrack? 3 lanes (more in some bits) last time I was on it.

Prefer M5/M4 combo myself, M6 goes to some nice places too 🙂

Loads of great stuff in the SW, much of it secret, but nothing makes my bowels fail like riding Smith's Combe too fast (like it makes you). I was chatting to an SA guy in the campsite at CyB and he remembered Smith's "oh yeah, the trail where you go too fast and can't slow down or you crash"

I was very impressed with the Quantocks when I rode there - a whole weekends riding guided so I guess we got the best bits

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the woods behind the Nationwide in Swindon