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Glentress
Probably the best biking centre in Britain. Everything from beginners' trails to long XC to extreme downhill and challenging free-ride. Café, bike shop & hire at Glentress. 140 miles / 3 hrs from Stranraer.
Visit the 7Stanes web site for more information on Glentress.
Overnight stays
One recommendation is the Cross Keys Hotel in Peebles - a really top notch spot for basing yourself if you plan to ride Glentress & Innerleithen (which is a superb place to spend a whole weekend).
Great room prices (£22-£25 per head per night, including breakfast), right in the middle of Peebles town, great facilities for bikers. Ewan is the man to talk to, and make sure you mention TrailBadger.
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Reviews for this trail
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5.0
OUT OF 5 BADGERS
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Spent 3 days there, and it just wasn't enough. The free ride park is awesome, Innerleithen is good fun, but the free ride park is so well laid out you can session all the areas to your hearts content. There are a few good trails also with some very fun descents. Really need to go back there, if you haven't tried it yet, GO! It's the best in the UK by a mile, and I've been to alot of the riding spots, trail, FR and DH.
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The big Momma of MTB trail locations. If you gathered every badger in the British Isles and supplimented them with some South American Honey Badgers, you still couldn't rate this place like it deserves. The Scottish Forestry Service put the NI equivalent to shame. The set up, the trails, the parking, the sheer quality and effort put into this place make our tree felling administrators look like cave-dwelling bum-sniffers. Glentress is a shining beacon!!
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STUNNING!!!! 6 badgers!
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The black is a great loop, some techy bits, some flowing singletrack, some raised woodwork, a decent climb or two and the jewel in the crown, Deliverance, a long sigletrack descent followed by Redemption, the swine of a climb back out...
The red has the Spooky wood jump fest and nice singletrack.
The freeride loops mean even near beginners can get some airtime. Look before you do though.
The blue is more fun than it has any right to be, fast and flowy. A great add on to a loop of the black.
Oh, and the Hub at the bottom does great food, I recommend a Hubba Bubba -
Innerleithen:
The first half of the trail is almost all climbing. And its a long hard climb with technical features on the way to make it harder. The descending is superb with the final descent, Caddon bank, making any amount of climbing worth it on its own.
Glentress:
It has it all really. Miles and miles of trails.
The black route is without doubt my favourite and also less busy. -
could easily stay there for a week. brilliant.
