hey guys, just thought I'd try to start a new topic to showcase the diversity of riders on here by way of showing where we all ride! Post any vids or pics of your local trails...here is the best i could find of mine, a few years back on my ss (pre 456)...ready GO!
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crap my pic didn't work...I promise I'll get one up there...
This is just an extension of the secret trail thread isn't it?
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haha, genuinely lol'ed at that...sorry don simon, no intention of that...just bored at work...
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sweet first pic! how are the trails in scotland?
*edit* my pic still won't work...I'll have to try later when I get home
Bedfordshire 'home of the shandymen' luckilly we have the Ridgeway on our doorstep and our road rides zig-zag it's length. Here's the Beacon.
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Mendips
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Proper hardcore in this neck of the woods.
Local riding - pentlands
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/5663945606/ ]everyone at top[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/25846484@N04/ ]TandemJeremy[/url], on Flickr
and around the lothians
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/5491816015/ ]11 river esk[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/25846484@N04/ ]TandemJeremy[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/5491785875/ ]04 cockenzie shore[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/25846484@N04/ ]TandemJeremy[/url], on Flickr
Favourite riding - in the highlands
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/2533962888/ ]17 Stitched West from above Kinlochleven[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/25846484@N04/ ]TandemJeremy[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/2533153531/ ]22 Mamores Ben Nevis Grey Corries[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/25846484@N04/ ]TandemJeremy[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/31623992@N05/4022039592/ ]Tandem leaving Fealar Lodge[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/31623992@N05/ ]paul.newman4279[/url], on Flickr
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eastern dartmoor
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Local loop:
1. Just behind my house in Bethesda
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2. Dropping into Capel Curig (1)
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3. Dropping into Capel Curig (2)
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Sunny Rossendale !!!!
Peak District (this from last thursday):
Hopefully this will show - it's from facebook.
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I'd have to kill you if I told you 😉
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BIG drop off
-Trailmonkey
Where are those switchbacks in your 4th pic? Just rediscovering lustleigh cleave after many years away-is it in the cleave?
Singapore:
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We do have to share the "shore" with others though:
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also eastern dartmoor
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Local Perthshire
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/55229898@N08/5142804939/ ]Mid point looking down[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/55229898@N08/ ]CaptainMainwaring1[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/55229898@N08/5505929358/ ]Beinn a Bhuide near north top[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/55229898@N08/ ]CaptainMainwaring1[/url], on Flickr
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Cannock.
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This is about a 45 minute climb from my back door 😀
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Hexham
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Uppland, Sweden.
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East Lancs
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Back garden.
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Seems to be small deep hollow ways, back-country lanes (not shown) and woods ...
('an mostly on a '92 Kona SS too it seems) 😉
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BWD - where is picture number four?
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Thetford Forest, unmarked trails
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Couldn't quite get the angle of the valley right to totally replicate yours. It does look very similar when the light is in the right place.
Just shows how lucky we all are. Nice pics all!
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Too many trees:
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The beautiful Basque country with its cool coast:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/basquemtb/5730918337/ ]Days on the Coast[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/basquemtb/ ]basqueMTB - mountain biking holidays[/url], on Flickr
mountains:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/basquemtb/5759157689/ ]Guiding in May[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/basquemtb/ ]basqueMTB - mountain biking holidays[/url], on Flickr
and forests:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/basquemtb/5759151699/ ]Guiding in May[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/basquemtb/ ]basqueMTB - mountain biking holidays[/url], on Flickr
And been riding a fair bit through the south / central Pyrenees:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/basquemtb/5148035295/ ]South Pyrenees Roadtrip[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/basquemtb/ ]basqueMTB - mountain biking holidays[/url], on Flickr
I wouldn't swap it for much... but that contour singletrack of yours BWD would seriously tempt me!
hey Sparkey, I recognize most of your pics but not others - give us some clues mate
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Not me but my fav trail
Hi Craig. Which one's don't you recognise?
1. Darwen Moor
2.'diagonal' descent from near Tower
3.trig point next to Tower
4. above Calf Hey res
5. the horseshoe valley heading back to Crowthorne from peel Tower direction
6. heading towards Peel Tower on same route
7. Darwen Moor
Tribute pic - above Crowthorne beyond the maggot farm
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Woburn Sands bike park is probably the closest I have in the way of local trails that aren't bridleways! None of these pics are mine but loads here - http://www.moredirt.co.uk/trail_gallery.php?id=140
Also used to ride here pretty much every morning when I was in Leicester for uni, Western Park jumps
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Been changed loads since that photo but I don't have any newer ones.
Although it's an hours drive from my house they are still my "local" rides
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Small water,before the carry up nan bield.
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Halfway down helvellyn earlier this year.
hey Sparkey, it was the reservoirs that threw me (never been down to the calf hey one either)
Yorkshire Dales
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i mostly ride where i built
During the week
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At the weekend
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzrich/5852459139/ ]Windermere![/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/nzrich/ ]Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/23772898@N07/2476591112/ ]Grinton 7-5-08[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/23772898@N07/ ]Dee P Jay[/url], on Flickr
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good old Bolton 😉
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I do like these threads...
I have Hebden Bridge etc within 30 minutes ride of my house but to be honest, never really venture that far anymore when I have all this within 10/15 minutes...
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Bristol and around
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About an hours drive from my house, but worth it.
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North York Moors
(Caution old bloke content)
mainly around these parts, but i want to travel further afield
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Good old Roseberry Topping, 15 minutes away from where I live!!!
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I have to drive for an hour before I can reach anything remotely hilly, though Delamere is 35 mins away, if that even counts...
BWD - where is picture number four?
ndt will know.
i live in devizes wiltshire. (marlbrough downs/ridgeway/wandsdyke salisbury plain) here is a rubbish video i made riding my new charge duster mid bike 😀
sorry about the bad camera work 😳 (do not have a mount for my cybershot)