Bolsover & District Cycling Club

Hi everyone.

Just wondering if we have any cross-country moutain-bikers on here who know of some decent trails around the Barlborough area.  I've only really started cycling in the area during the last 6 months and have found a few basic routes but nothing particularly interesting or technical.  Does anybody know any secret trails that I'm missing?

Cheers

Matt

Matt

Your not badly placed for some decent XC action , and the best place by far on your doorstep is Eckington Woods & the surrounding area.

If you dont know it that well , one of our tuesday night MTB rides sets off from the sitwell arms at renishaw and takes it in

We also have a ride that sets off from barlborough , drops down to spinkhill then routes around Mosborough , which , although not that technical is a good blast

None of it is trail centre standard , but you can put a decent route together

We hope to get some published routes soon , just playing with GPS and routing software to try and make it work

I went around Eckington woods once about 8 years ago so I wouldn't say I'm exactly familiar with it.  I'll head over that way one day to give it a try though, probably a weekend when I can ride it during the daylight hours though for starters.

From here I usually head out either south toward Stanfree and around the back of Clowne or North across the motorway and down towards Rother Valley Park.

Cycled over to Whitwell Wood the other day to see what that was like but the trails are "walking only" unfortunately.

I'm still exploring though, there are loads of short trails about that I have yet to try.