Your best place to ride / have ever ridden
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The Marin trail in Wales is simply breathtaking. Beautiful scenery.
Grizedale forest and surrounding areas has mega amounts of trails (walkers routes, if you're naughty, are even better) and I've never done the same route twice in a decade.
A nice quiet, but very tame local ride is Gisburn forest. Lovely for night riding or a proper Sunday morning blast.
I prefer the more natural flowing singletrack, as opposed to the manmade north shore inspired breed of trails. Why do they put off-camber wet wooden bridges in the middle of a perfect piece of singletrack? It makes me fall off!
Grizedale forest and surrounding areas has mega amounts of trails (walkers routes, if you're naughty, are even better) and I've never done the same route twice in a decade.
A nice quiet, but very tame local ride is Gisburn forest. Lovely for night riding or a proper Sunday morning blast.
I prefer the more natural flowing singletrack, as opposed to the manmade north shore inspired breed of trails. Why do they put off-camber wet wooden bridges in the middle of a perfect piece of singletrack? It makes me fall off!
Well I'm not expecting anyone to have heard of let alone ridden my favourites but I'll post them anyway.
My favourite trails and the best I've ridden anywhere are in the Dial Range behind my home town of Penguin on the NW Coast of Tasmania.
Hardly anyone rides there and apart from a few locals not many people even know there are trails there, which I suppose is part of the attraction. The terrain varies from white gravel to really orange clays, and rich brown dirt which farmers dream of while the vegetation varies from dryer gums to real rain forest stuff, with numerous creek crossings. In a ways its fairly simliar to selected parts of NZ.
Some are getting a little overgrown, but there's just enough riders to keep most of the undergrowth in check.
There are also some excellent trails on the West Coast of Tassie that not many people know about too, with a similar feel, but they stay wet for most of the year.
If anyone makes it to Tasmania with their bike, I happy to take them riding on the best bits.
My favourite trails and the best I've ridden anywhere are in the Dial Range behind my home town of Penguin on the NW Coast of Tasmania.
Hardly anyone rides there and apart from a few locals not many people even know there are trails there, which I suppose is part of the attraction. The terrain varies from white gravel to really orange clays, and rich brown dirt which farmers dream of while the vegetation varies from dryer gums to real rain forest stuff, with numerous creek crossings. In a ways its fairly simliar to selected parts of NZ.
Some are getting a little overgrown, but there's just enough riders to keep most of the undergrowth in check.
There are also some excellent trails on the West Coast of Tassie that not many people know about too, with a similar feel, but they stay wet for most of the year.
If anyone makes it to Tasmania with their bike, I happy to take them riding on the best bits.
