Can somebody please explain to me ?

BurtonM

I know it might sound noobish, but what the hell is a bombhole?

fourcrossjohn

what term would you use it in?

alfablue

Receptacle for man on man action?


Sorry :oops:

Well, its like a crater a bomb might cause, quite fun to ride in, steep, maybe scary entry, speed up the other side with possible jump at the end.

BurtonM

ahhhh i seeee. like the one at innerleithen ???. i just call them big f**k off ditches that you go fast in

alfablue

See this

alfablue

this is the bombhole in Ashton Court, Bristol

BurtonM

Yeah got you now, fully kitted up with technical terms now

Rau

There's one in Salcey Forest, near Northampton. I havn't been there in years so its probably not as amazing as I am imagining it to be

Thanks to this thread I'm gonna have to check it out tommorow!

Raymondavalon

If you know it's there or see it.. it's a bombhole...
If you don't.. I then call it a mantrap... been caught out by some of the smaller bombholes when riding...

.blitz

BurtonM wrote:

I know it might sound noobish, but what the hell is a bombhole?

The Germans weren't that bad at aiming. The bombholes on the Chase were created by digging out pockets of coal that lay close to the surface.

skullthaw

its a bit like skate bowl but made of mud :P

fatblokefromwarwick

Our local bombhole is part of Kenilworth Castle moat and has a very steep descent.
Must admit I bottled it at first :oops: but have rode down a few times now. Still a little wary of it though :!:

Helen-mtb

LOL this forum made me chuckle "big f*uck off ditches you go fast in"!

When my (now ex ) boyfriend first got me into riding, he tried telling me they were "bum holes" .... i believed him for a good few weeks :oops:

supertwisted

Rau wrote:

There's one in Salcey Forest, near Northampton. I havn't been there in years so its probably not as amazing as I am imagining it to be

Thanks to this thread I'm gonna have to check it out tommorow!

Is there really? Whereabouts is it?

BorisSpencer

supertwisted wrote:

Rau wrote:

There's one in Salcey Forest, near Northampton. I havn't been there in years so its probably not as amazing as I am imagining it to be

Thanks to this thread I'm gonna have to check it out tommorow!

Is there really? Whereabouts is it?

I've never bothered to even look at Salcey Forest, I'd heard it was a family route and any 'off piste' excursions were strictly forbidden.

Thread8

they have quite a few at thetford forest, mainly on the black run and a couple on the side of the red

papasmurf.

alfablue wrote:

this is the bombhole in Ashton Court, Bristol

that can't be the one at ashton court...its not a boggy mess!

nwmlarge

there's load over danbury and at high beech, both in essex

adb1006

Thread8 wrote:

they have quite a few at thetford forest, mainly on the black run and a couple on the side of the red

And the ones at Thetford really are bomb-holes 8)

Rau

supertwisted wrote:

Rau wrote:

There's one in Salcey Forest, near Northampton. I havn't been there in years so its probably not as amazing as I am imagining it to be

Thanks to this thread I'm gonna have to check it out tommorow!

Is there really? Whereabouts is it?

Well, I went yesterday to check it out and it's honestly quite disappointing. It had got much smaller and appears unused.. probably due to the fact that salcey forest made a new strict marked cycle route, so no one goes anywhere other than on that.

To get to it you park in the carpark where the dog walkers go.. it's on the cycle track. You then have to go off the cycle track at the bottom of the hill, onto a muddy one and follow it until you get to the bombhole. I don't actually know exaclty where it is, because I knew what I was looking for and managed to find it after a bit of searching..

I drew a line on a map for you 8)
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7614/salveymap.png

BorisSpencer wrote:

I've never bothered to even look at Salcey Forest, I'd heard it was a family route and any 'off piste' excursions were strictly forbidden.

Yeah when I visited yesterday I went round the 5 mile trail and it's really light.. aimed at families. There are signs dotted around stating that you can't go off the cycle route.

supertwisted

Rau wrote:

supertwisted wrote:

Rau wrote:

There's one in Salcey Forest, near Northampton. I havn't been there in years so its probably not as amazing as I am imagining it to be

Thanks to this thread I'm gonna have to check it out tommorow!

Is there really? Whereabouts is it?

Well, I went yesterday to check it out and it's honestly quite disappointing. It had got much smaller and appears unused.. probably due to the fact that salcey forest made a new strict marked cycle route, so no one goes anywhere other than on that.

To get to it you park in the carpark where the dog walkers go.. it's on the cycle track. You then have to go off the cycle track at the bottom of the hill, onto a muddy one and follow it until you get to the bombhole. I don't actually know exaclty where it is, because I knew what I was looking for and managed to find it after a bit of searching..

I drew a line on a map for you 8)
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7614/salveymap.png

BorisSpencer wrote:

I've never bothered to even look at Salcey Forest, I'd heard it was a family route and any 'off piste' excursions were strictly forbidden.

Yeah when I visited yesterday I went round the 5 mile trail and it's really light.. aimed at families. There are signs dotted around stating that you can't go off the cycle route.

Cheers Rau, I'll take a look next time I'm there.

Salcey is very tame though yes, the cycle route is pure 'out with the wife and kids' territory. I sometimes use it as a training session when I can't get out for proper ride, nicer to put in a few laps there than riding on the roads.

spongtastic

most of the ones in Suffolk/Norfolk are where returning bombers dumped their bombs on failed or emergency trips back to the airfields.