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The best place I have ever ridden for loam was the quantocks hills in the forestry commission section, I built a couple of trails with my cousin and it has such deep and soft loam from all the pine needles that if your drop a spade from head height it just makes a dead thwomp sound
 
beanzz said:
The best place I have ever ridden for loam was the quantocks hills in the forestry commission section, I built a couple of trails with my cousin and it has such deep and soft loam from all the pine needles that if your drop a spade from head height it just makes a dead thwomp sound
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It’s usually my head making a dead thwomp sound as I hit the soft loam 😆
 
Doomanic said:
The optimist in me says enjoy it while it lasts.

The pessimist in me knows we're going to pay for it later in the year...
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Yeah got the day off on Friday this week and we’re planning on riding the new DH3 trail at Greno woods. No doubt it’ll be p!ss!ng down, snowing, blowing a hooley, or all three 👊🏽
 
It's not looking too promising here but IF the skies clear I am 100% heading out tonight to try and see the northern lights. Bit of a once in a generation thing for a southerner.
 
Binhill1 said:
Knochkan. Glenlivet area.
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Although I've ridden the trail centre there it's not one I'm familiar with ..looks good though .
I have had in mind organising a bothy trip in the Kielder Forest area ..believe it or not we have 4 excellent bothy within 20 miles of each other ..I've just to sort out the logistics of re-charging batteries overnight for anyone who might be interested ..still keen to do this ..but its on the back burner ..
 
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The Hodge said:
Although I've ridden the trail centre there it's not one I'm familiar with ..looks good though .
I have had in mind organising a bothy trip in the Kielder Forest area ..believe it or not we have 4 excellent bothy within 20 miles of each other ..I've just to sort out the logistics of re-charging batteries overnight for anyone who might be interested ..still keen to do this ..but its on the back burner ..
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You can buy some light weight solar panels but you would either have to have a spare battery so you can charge whilst riding or take a spare day so you can charge for a day
 
The Hodge said:
Although I've ridden the trail centre there it's not one I'm familiar with ..looks good though .
I have had in mind organising a bothy trip in the Kielder Forest area ..believe it or not we have 4 excellent bothy within 20 miles of each other ..I've just to sort out the logistics of re-charging batteries overnight for anyone who might be interested ..still keen to do this ..but its on the back burner ..
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It's not easy but this one is only 4 miles from the road on the route I took yesterday . Very popular now people just go bothying and tick them off , and why shouldn't they. Ive paddled in to a few but you can throw a tent in to kayak no big deal . Sleeping bag stove etc it's not really mtb friendly. I should convert my hardtail to electric it takes panniers.
 
beanzz said:
You can buy some light weight solar panels but you would either have to have a spare battery so you can charge whilst riding or take a spare day so you can charge for a day
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None of the above 😂
Im local to this area..So it would either involve the missus picking up everyone's ( ?) battery and charging them at the Hodgson abode overnight ...or my mate owns The Bike Place at Kielder and he might be up for helping out for a small fee....
We did this a few years back on normal mtb's and had a couple of fantastic nights ..
 
Binhill1 said:
It's not easy but this one is only 4 miles from the road on the route I took yesterday . Very popular now people just go bothying and tick them off , and why shouldn't they. Ive paddled in to a few but you can throw a tent in to kayak no big deal . Sleeping bag stove etc it's not really mtb friendly. I should convert my hardtail to electric it takes panniers.
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I was a kayaker going way back when in my teens ..did quite a few family holidays ( my old man was a B.C.U Senior Instructor) we spent quite a bit of time in the North West ..Scourie ..the very top one where we paddled out to Handa Island with its 300ft cliffs ..Ardnamurchan Peninsula ..Peanmenach ( spelling ) near Arisaig ..
It's been a good few years since I've paddled anything at all..but I've got some great memories from that time
 
The Hodge said:
None of the above 😂
Im local to this area..So it would either involve the missus picking up everyone's ( ?) battery and charging them at the Hodgson abode overnight ...or my mate owns The Bike Place at Kielder and he might be up for helping out for a small fee....
We did this a few years back on normal mtb's and had a couple of fantastic nights ..
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I’m sure staying in Bothy’s is great fun, but down south we have these buildings called hotels which come with heating, running water, bathrooms, breakfast, fresh clean sheets, mattresses, beds and even electricity. You have to pay a small fee, but trust me, it’s worth the upgrade 😆
 
Tubby G said:
I’m sure staying in Bothy’s is great fun, but down south we have these buildings called hotels which come with heating, running water, bathrooms, breakfast, fresh clean sheets, mattresses, beds and even electricity. You have to pay a small fee, but trust me, it’s worth the upgrade 😆
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That was a posh one last night it had a composite toilet. Must admit i dont enjoy digging a hole and squatting in the rain with midges biting at my rear end.
 
RustyMTB said:
Aurora free zone round here tonight ;/

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Well done for making the effort at least. We’ve got thin cloud cover here in North Yorkshire. I did stand outside for a while and stare at the sky in a northerly direction, and saw a slight green ish ‘movement’ for about half a second. It was hardly a life changing experience 😆
 
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