Scotland
Scotland is the place I know. I cherish riding in Scotland. The thing I adore about Scotland is that you get this variety of riding.
My preferred areas in Scotland are Aberfoyle, which is around an hour’s drive from Glasgow. That is the place people ride a significant amount, and that is steeper natural tech stuff. Dunkeld is, as I would see it, the next up-and-coming spot in Scotland. My friends are building trails there. It’s for somebody with somewhat more expertise and someplace where you can get stuck into some cool trails.
I’ve been biking in Scotland for a while, and I’ve seen a massive rise in the specific trail centers around the Borders. You have some incredibly cool trails there that are anything but difficult to access for all levels.
Highlands of Scotland unquestionably got excellent riding. You have Aviemore and the Torridon Hills, which is one of my most loved spots. The landscape up in the Torridon mountains is enormous; the mountains and Munros are a bit more rolling than they are on Skye, with softer edges on the hills, but with unusual paths that go through the glens and up and over the passes of the Torridon hills.
I additionally love the Isle of Skye; It’s somewhere I didn’t ride a lot until the point that I was a bit older, however that is indeed where you can do your two or three-day bothy adventures and feel like you’re getting away from everything. Skye, I think, has some of the most beautiful views in Scotland.
Scotland has a sort of romance to the landscape. You can turn a corner, and it has this variety to it every time, and the landscape changes across the country, the Borders or around Edinburgh and Perth shire up to the Highlands where it gets more bleak and dramatic.
Graubünden, Switzerland
People have been spending a lot of time recently in the Graubünden region, in the east of Switzerland. Switzerland is incredibly famous for its mind-blowing view. The view is staggering. I frequently ended up making comparisons with Scotland.
You have places like Davos, Laax, St Moritz… , and the mountains around these areas are just marvelous. It’s the Swiss Alps, and there are some of the Dolomites in the area.
The access to the trails is stunning. They have trails everywhere throughout the area, and they have an astounding infrastructure of lifts so that you can get up onto the tops. Also, when you’re on the top, you can do these magical rides, where you remain up high and traverse from peak to peak – it’s not merely vertical descent. You can get vertical descent if you want however there are extremely some cool loops and other stuff you can do there.
Another cool thing about the Graubünden area is that they have a way more relaxed system with the trail utilize. In different parts of Switzerland, it can be unquestionably strict, and you can only ride on specific tracks. In any case, Graubünden is dual use. It’s ideal if you get up early to go and do it, so the tracks are clear. It’s a considerable amount of fun. They have the flow trails and downhill tracks and bike parks, yet I cherish the more natural paths out there. It’s astonishing. You can do, like, an hour’s descent.
British Columbia, Canada
For anyone’s that is ever got into bikes, this is one of the ‘must go to’ destinations on the planet. The north shore of Vancouver has an off the unbelievable free ride trails in the woods, only north of the city. It’s famous for the beginning of the Free ride movement of mountain biking. There’s an astounding network of trails, from stuff that anyone can ride to some extremely outrageous stuff. That is an astonishing spot to go riding.
If you go an hour and a half north of there, you’ve likewise got Whistler. Whistler has a stunning bike park; it’s a world-famous bike park that is getting everything. But if you’re prepared to pedal (and more and more people are), there is additionally a massive network of trails you have to pedal up to get your descent. There’s an incredibly stunning network all around there up around Whistler and furthermore Squamish. It’s got some of the best trails on the planet.
There’s wildlife living in the area as well. You may come around a corner and see a black bear on the trail.
The Alps, France
Some of the best times I’ve had on a bike were likely in Morzine in France. It’s a significant common mountain biking spot to get to from the UK, in the same way, Chamonix has UK ties.
Morzine is unquestionably the sort of bike park destination that you go to for week ’s holiday with friends. It’s in the French Alps. You fly into Geneva, and it’s about an hours drive to get there.
Morzine is great fun. It’s somewhat like a taste of Whistler, however over in Europe.
You’ve likewise got places like Les Gets in different parts of the valley. I explored the area a bit. We cycled across to Les Gets. There are marked trails in the area and furthermore nearby’s trails in the woods, which are my kind of scene, with steeper, loamy, rooty type of stuff.
With the bike park itself, though, be prepared for your bicycle to suffer. It’s certainly the sort of place you’ll do lap after lap after lap. I’ve been there two or three times when it’s been somewhat dusty and different times when it’s wet, and it certainly puts your bike through its paces. Be that as it may, it is a whole lot of fun.
California, United States
I’ve been riding the Campus Trails above Santa Cruz in California, and they must be up there as a some of the best. I’ve been out there riding for a while.
The trails around Santa Cruz are excellent fun. They have a similar vibe to places like Whistler, yet they get significantly less traffic. There are indeed no lifts here. It’s a case of pedaling up. But above Santa Cruz, you’ve got redwood forests, which are cool to be riding in. You have more extensive, reasonably well-built trails, however despite everything they have that loamy feel, instead of being dusty or rocky. It’s mostly been built by local people. The forests with the redwood trees are enormous, and trails can be than a foot wide. They are simply magic territory for riding bicycles.
You can spot wildlife. You get mountain lions and different sorts of wild beasts in the woods.
You get rolling hills here, and you have the coast that Santa Cruz sits on. When you go over the top of the hills, you end up in the Bay Area of San Francisco. You can see San Francisco from the top of the hills.
It’s only an hour and a half north of there. Compared with southern California, where I’ve additionally been riding a lot, I like it since it’s not as arid. It’s significantly more lush and green, and they do get rain, so it keeps the trails a nice consistency, so you’re not just riding around in a dust bowl. You remember the film Bigfoot and the Henderson’s? Once you’re in the woods, you feel like you’re in that kind of terrain. You can imagine Bigfoot rooting around among these trees.
