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30/7/2011 at 9:03pm
 Location: Northern England
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My kids love their bikes and my hubby and I used to do a lot of mountain biking before they came along. I am trying to introduce the kids to off road biking but its difficult to find routes that are a bit adventurous without being too tricky. I took the kids on a bridleway marked on a local OS map and it was a bit of a disaster. The path was just too difficult for my 10 year old and he got really frustrated.

We live in North Yorkshire and have done the rides in Dalby Forest so many times that we can nearly do them with our eyes shut!

There are load of books on the market but a lot of them look like they are for serious Mountain Bikers. We need some easy routes but I cant find any! Anyone got any suggestions?


30/7/2011 at 10:39pm
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There are easy routes at the FC sites at Nant yr Arian and Coed yr Brenin.


30/7/2011 at 10:59pm
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or theirs delamere Forrest both a bit or a trek from north Yorkshire though   

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01/8/2011 at 8:24pm
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Thanks for the suggestions, both a bit far away but useful if we are ever out and about.

Going to check out our local library, someone has told me they have some books of local routes so I can get some ideas before spending any money.


01/8/2011 at 10:38pm
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Both MBR and Mountain bike UK magazines publish easy, medium, hard and killer routes in their magazines and online, if you go to www.bikeradar.com you may also find something listed. I keep alot of the routes published in the mags i mentioned i'll try and make some time to look through some of the easy and medium routes to see which are up your way and can e-mail them to you.

If your heading south then try Forest Pines near Mansfield as its easy to pickout a few bits of easy singletrack and session them.

hope this helps.



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05/8/2011 at 6:20am
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Cheers CamperK - will follow that link and will research the bike magazine websites. I had assumed those kind of magazines would only publish the harder routes so thats really helpful.



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