Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

Is there an bridleway / CX / unpaved route database?

@facsimile that ride we did earlier in the year was perfect example, do you have a GPX

Does this work?

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Let me know if you fancy doing again in the New Year. Keen to see your biek in 650B mode.

I'm working on one for the new years...

Thanks, I'll be off work the first week back so let's get something done

If there isn't one, there needs to be one for the UK. Would love to be able to put in my postcode and choose from a range of off the road rides around me.

@facsimile downloaded your ride to check it out only to realise I was the one that created it. Glad you enjoyed it.

Either I've uploaded the wrong file, you've opened the wrong file, or our routes are a coincidence.

Because everyone knows that I rode it first.

FIRST.

So there.

Is there an bridleway / CX / unpaved route database?

there's some here

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/302181/

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/19671889

This is the offending ride

I'm sort of ashamed to admit that I don't know how to download and follow someone else's GPX file, and I don't have a Garmin that offers route instructions. As you discovered when I took you through those ditches a few years ago.

@facsimile my mistake. It must have happened when I downloaded and uploaded.

Here's my version that keeps you off the roads a little more on the top loop.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26444023

been doing a short mtb-ride today on the slopes of Côte du Vecquee (one of the climbs from Liège-Bastogne-Liège) in the Belgian Ardennes.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1324401608

I did part of the LBL ride, that valley was lovely, looks great for mtb

Yes, it really is great here. I know the region well (my brother lives here) and it's one of my favourite bike regions in Belgium (for bot road and offroad cycling). There's hundreds of kilometers of dirtroads and tracks and it's easy to gain some vertical climbing meters. Yesterday I had nearly 900 m on a 23 km ride.

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I don't know how to download and follow someone else's GPX file, and I don't have a Garmin that offers route instructions.

Pretty sure even the 200 will show a breadcrumb trail.

Ah - probably also true of Garmin Fenix 2 if I could bother to figure it out.

Tresspasser trail in British Columbia, beyond insanely steep and tech.

https://youtu.be/tFjK_3i-NHQ

Not enjoying it is he?

No, but to be fair the trail is probably one of the steepest and techiest trails in the world, according to those who have ridden it.

This video gives some interesting perspectives on the trail's main features:

https://youtu.be/pCYM8Mzk2Ug

Yeah. Looks like the kind of trail that they'll make me ride when I'm in hell!

Fellas are fairly clued up.
Blind run so approaching each section with caution.
Trying to pick out choices before having a go.
Crashes are mostly just lying the bike down at slow speed.
That's kinda the best approach. Squeeling brakes though.........

This was an epic one.
Had a hardtail cat too :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdKLGTQg_b0

This was and maybe still is too common a sight, used to see this a fair bit, packs of riders set off in close formation then take each other out and shut the track down.

It would appear the rider who crashes has his helmet removed by the impact from the second rider, most likely didn't do his chin strap up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NjenYTcAzw