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MTBNE Christmas Outing

I want to get a trip up to Glentress one weekend before Christmas organised. Anyone else interested and want to tag along and have a laugh at the daddy of trail centres? Red / Black / park/ Inners, not bothered. With the winter setting… Continue

Added by Andy on November 13, 2009 at 10:35am — 14 Comments

FC events in September

To complement Crispys blog just grabbed this of the KTR website. New trails / park opening in the NE - can only be a good thing. :) FCMTBEventsPosterHR.pdf Continue

Added by Andy on August 29, 2009 at 10:36am — 1 Comment

New Red at Fort Bill

Just grapped this off youtube

That's one hell of a long boardwalk section. Looks fun though. Continue

Added by Andy on July 11, 2009 at 9:08pm — 2 Comments

Dirt School

Went up to Glentress on Friday with the wife so I thought I'd just be having a laugh on the blue route with her then possibly a quick blast on the red on my own. How wrong I was: she'd booked me on to the XC course that Dirt School run as an early birthday present. I can't recommend it highly enough: I learnt more about bike handling in that day than I did in the previous 10 years. The guy taking the class (Andy Barlow) is a national XC champion and has done the black route at Glenners in 1 hour… Continue

Added by Andy on May 2, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

New Kielder Trails

Lifted straight from the KTR website (posted by Alex Mac) All, Seems the updates are not getting through from the project to this website, please find our intended dates for the new trails opening this year. 1, New Red Trail starts at Lewisburn goes past the lonesome tree which you can see on the distant skyline as you walk down to Kielder Castle from the Kielder Car Park. The trail comes in behind the former Kielder Garage, so you will see the end of the trail as you drive into Kielder. T… Continue

Added by Andy on April 23, 2009 at 12:32pm — 5 Comments

Map of places to ride

Hi all, As I only moved oop north a couple of years ago I'm still discovering new places to ride by word of mouth and this website. So I thought there must be others in a similar situation and have started a google map showing where the riding spots in the north are. Link is here. I've added the 7Stanes, Kiel… Continue

Added by Andy on February 25, 2009 at 12:43pm — 1 Comment