Your best place to ride / have ever ridden

[TheGreenRabbit]

actually if I had to pick 1 trail, it would be the boulderfield up the side of the tasman glacier near mount cook NZ. purely for the awesome views & total sence of wilderness. 7000ft scree slopes to your side, blue-white glacier below & stretching waaay into the distance. its kinda like the grand canyon, sit, look, loose 4hrs.. i'm just a sucka for a good view :roll:

The ride from the main road to the village at Mt Cook is fantastic, then there is the West Coast of NZ takes 7-10 days to cycle, and the view is fantastic all the way.

Vermont has fantastic single track, and is good for a autum tour, with the leafs changing. I went to The Wickidly Wild Wide Wheel Weekend at MT Snow, what a party !!!!

New Hampshire the area arround Mt Washington.

Penansalvania is good, they dont belive in easy climbs, all the trails went straight up. there is a nice route in the main park in Philadelphia, and allong the river. Theres also a few nice state parks arround there but watch out the parks can have a speed limit and the rangers had a speed camera (I found out the hard way and got a ticket and a $10 fine)

The Lancashire fells are good and often forgoten about.

The lakes are great.

Peaks are good, There is a loop I used to do around Win Hill and Lady Bower.

I could go on . . . . .

 

[orange71]

The ride from the main road to the village at Mt Cook is fantastic, then there is the West Coast of NZ takes 7-10 days to cycle, and the view is fantastic all the way.

ashamed to say it did all that in a bus!

mind you the first time I ever rode a mountain bike was in New Zealand and it was 1982 :shock:

 

[grahame]

I get to go and play in Colorado (Breckenridge, Aspen, Crested Butte and Durango) and Moab each summer.

 

[scant]

actually if I had to pick 1 trail, it would be the boulderfield up the side of the tasman glacier near mount cook NZ. purely for the awesome views & total sence of wilderness. 7000ft scree slopes to your side, blue-white glacier below & stretching waaay into the distance. its kinda like the grand canyon, sit, look, loose 4hrs.. i'm just a sucka for a good view :roll:

The ride from the main road to the village at Mt Cook is fantastic, then there is the West Coast of NZ takes 7-10 days to cycle, and the view is fantastic all the way.

The lakes are great.

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I've done that western s.island trip as well. very cool. espically the helicopter trip to the top of a glacier (forget which 1!, have to dig out the old map) & back down again.
I love the lakes, propper lumpy mountains

 

[FairfaxPat]

best place to ride

Aside from all the great places to ride in my neighborhood-Mt. Tam, Repack, etc.-an amazing place to ride in Northern California is the Flume trail at Lake Tahoe, a ride 2000 feet above the 6200 foot Lake with the coolest views of the Sierras you can imagine!

 

[Bluestoesonnose]

Well my home turf (Cornwall and now Plymouth) & around the Cairngorm National Park has some sweet single track.

Oh and Bothy Bikes are good chaps, very helpful.

 

[Pickle]

Well my home turf (Cornwall and now Plymouth)

Have you done the mid '90's Grundig circuit?

 

[Bluestoesonnose]

that Newnham?

 

[Pickle]

I think it is, the name rings a bell. Never done it myself, would love to though, it looked awsome when I watched it BITD on Eurosport and David Baker won

 

[Bluestoesonnose]

you can only get in there when they run races as its a clay shooting area, Soggy Bottom Race in Feb i think