Glentress MTB Trails
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Come join us for a day's mountain biking at Glentress - one of the award-winning 7Stanes trails dotted across the Scottish southern uplands.
Glentress offers a variety of graded trails of various lengths - from the short easy green routes (3.5km) right up to the technical black route (30km) for expert riders.
We will start off in the morning with a circuit or two of the easier blue routes (8.5km and 16.5km) to get ourselves warmed up. After lunch, if feeling sufficiently confident, there will be an opportunity to try the slightly more challenging red route (19km) which offers some quite exhilarating technical features with apt names like Spooky Wood Descent and Super G! See the map of the trails for full details.
What to bring
Apart from your bike remember the following:.
- Puncture repair kit (or better still a spare inner tube) and tyre levers. Also any special tools that your bike needs.
- A cycling bottle attached to your bike and plenty of water
- Eye protection - impact from a bee, grit or even a fly at speed is extremely unpleasant, sunglasses may do if not made of glass and not too shaded.
- Clothing: choose suitable clothes and footwear for the weather forecast and time of year. You will be exercising so lightweight layered clothing is best. Shorts are best even in rain, as they allow free movement of your legs. Jeans are useless if it rains but tracksuit bottoms need to be not too baggy or they may snag in the chain and cause an accident. You'll need trainers or similar with grippy soles for standard pedals.
- Cyclist's Helmet - Outdoorlads policy asks you to wear a helmet events.
- Bag you will need a small day-sack to carry essential clothing, water and an emergency snack.
Food & drink
There is a cafe on site at Glentress where we can break for lunch, but you should also carry some spare food and water while riding in case of unforseen delays or emergencies.