Guisborough Forest?

Stevo_666

I'm going to go there early next week - does anyone know what state the trails are in at the moment? Also it looks like there was a new red run being built - is this open yet/what's it like?

Cheers in advance.

Royal Dragoon

There's a lot of felling going on in the woods at the moment, with a lot of the trails closed, particularly the Black and Red I believe.

I was up there a few weeks ago and took plenty of pictures, they will give you some idea as to the conditions:
Have a look here:

http://www.mtbe.co.uk/ruddy-good-ride-t ... uisborough


hope that helps.

Stevo_666

Thanks - managed to find the Forestry commission website page for Guisborough; says both the blue and the red are open but no mention of the black?

TheNorthernTrain

Royal Dragoon wrote:

There's a lot of felling going on in the woods at the moment, with a lot of the trails closed, particularly the Black and Red I believe.

I was up there a few weeks ago and took plenty of pictures, they will give you some idea as to the conditions:
Have a look here:

http://www.mtbe.co.uk/ruddy-good-ride-t ... uisborough


hope that helps.

I LOVE the steps at the end of those photos, sadly they have also been the source of many a pinch flat.

Stevo_666

north-sure wrote:

I LOVE the steps at the end of those photos, sadly they have also been the source of many a pinch flat.

No problem - I'm tubeless

Stevo_666

Did the red route at Guisborough yesterday - what a let down A long and in places steep fire road climb to get to 5 minutes of single track that takes you back onto the fire road to go back down. Could they not have designed a decent route backdown to the bottom of the hill FFS?

Petaypan74

For good sustained riding around Guisborough, start & finish in the woods but head towards the Captain Cook monument above Gt Ayton and do a descent loop. There are some awesome trails through Guisborough Woods but local knowledge is needed...

rob13

I need to tap into some of this local knowledge as I dont know my way around it either.

Stevo_666

Petaypan74 wrote:

For good sustained riding around Guisborough, start & finish in the woods but head towards the Captain Cook monument above Gt Ayton and do a descent loop. There are some awesome trails through Guisborough Woods but local knowledge is needed...

Thanks - I know where that is and I think you can see it from the waymarked trail. May have to get an O/S map and do some research for next time I am there.