Discover the beauty of nature with Dalby Forest Bike Trails. With its comprehensive organization, the Dalby Forest has a The Dalby Forest Cycle Hub that is focused on delivering you with all the cycling services and accessories that you need. It offers you bike hire services, where you get all kinds of bikes, it has biking courses and a biking shop where you buy all that is concerned with biking.
Above all, it has wonderful cycling trails that are designed to give you a smooth and thrilling experience as you ride there. The wonderful trails combined with the serene natural environment in the forest makes cycling be your favorite outdoor activity.
Let us now explore some of the cycling trails in the Dalby Forest.
Adderstone Cycle Trail
This is a green graded trail that is suitable for novice cyclists as well as young children. It extends a total length of 8 miles with an optional extension of 4 miles. The trail recommended for family cycling activities with both long and short options. It has gentle slopes that are so easy to navigate through, with steeper but short ups and downs.
It extends from Dixons’s Hollow car park located next to Adderstone Field.
Ellerburn Trail
This one is also green graded therefore suitable for beginners. It has a total distance of 1.7 mile with an optional extension of 1.1 mile. It is a short route with the gentlest terrain in the Dalby Forest.
The trail has multiple uses where it accommodates not only riders but also disabled cyclist and wheelchair users. It is also a preferred route for children learning to ride bikes and parents with pushchairs.
Jubilee Blue Trail
The Jubilee Blue Trail is a blue graded trail that is suitable for intermediate cyclists with basic off-road riding skills. If you are a rider who would like to make a step up in your riding, join this trail that will take you a distance of 6 miles to cover it. For this route, you start from the Dalby Forest Cycle Hub.
Here you will be challenged with climbing and having some sections in the woods, then flowing with the berms and rollers. This route rewards you with a beautiful view of valley of the Dalby and downhill fun towards the end.
Jerry Noddle Bike Trail
This one is a red graded trail suitable for proficient mountain bikers with excellent off-roading skills. It covers a length of 7 miles with a fast flowing route through the woods which gives experienced riders a fantastic experience. This route begins from Dixons Hollow Car Park.
It gives you a technical combination of sections with berms, rocky features, jumps and fast flowing downhills against the backdrop of some of Dalby’s finest scenery.
Newclose Rig Trail
This is another red graded bike trail suitable for expert mountain bikers with good off-roading skills. Beginners are highly prohibited from this trail. It covers a length of 6 miles and it starts from the Low Daly. When you reach post 12, follow the escape route back to Low Dalby.
This tricky and challenging ride gives you a fast flowing single track through varied woodland. Along the ride, expect rocky features, steep drop-offs and large rocks with fast downhills and some fantastic flowy sections downhill.
Red Route
The Red Route is the longest bike trail in the UK with a total coverage distance of 21 miles. Being red graded, it is made specifically for proficient and experienced mountain bikers with good off-roading skills. It is a good trail for riders who want a thrilling experience and have good levels of ability and fitness.
The Red route combines the fast flowing single track, technical features, challenging climbs and tricky downhill descents.
Riggs and Dales Bike Trails
Another red graded trail, The Riggs and Dales Bike Trail that covers a length of 8.5 miles is meant to serve proficient and experienced mountain bikers with excellent off-roading skills. This is because of its intense sections of single features with lots of technical climbs and descents which only competent riders can tackle.
This route starts from The Low Dalby as you follow the ‘Riggs and Dales’ signs on the blue cycle trail.
World Cup MTB Trail
The World Cup MTB Trail is the only black trail found at Dalby forest with a length of 4 miles. It is made for expert mountain bikers who are used to physically demanding routes. This one wants those rides with ability and with physical fitness.
Its technical world-class features include steep climbs and challenging, purpose built descents. It is created for the Cross-Country MTB World Cup competitions, like the one held in 2018. The trail starts from Adderstone Field.
The Dalby Forest Cycle skills area
This is an area set aside purposely for bike training. It is graded as orange. It is suitable for basic level riders, especially younger ones who are working on their confidence with humps, banks and small jumps. Here people test their abilities and gauge whether they are ready to face the real trails starting from the green trails as they gradually graduate to blue then red.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the meaning of the color grading of the trails?
These colors represent different difficulty levels as follows;
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Green – easy for beginners
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Blue – moderate for intermediate riders
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Red – difficult for proficient mountain bikers with good off-roading skills
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Black – severe for experts
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Double black – extreme for elite bikers with expert technical skills
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Orange – mostly set aside for skill learning
E-Bike
These are electronic powered bikes with integrated motors that aid in propulsion. They benefit the cyclists by reducing their cycling efforts and enabling them to achieve longer distances. They are environmentally friendly as they do not emit any gases to the environment. These bikes are easy to maintain as they do not consume any fuel, they just need to be charged and that is all.
They are easy to handle and they have adjustable features that enable you to handle them as you wish. They come in different designs according to their purpose; we have those for mountain climbing, others for cargo carriage, others for commuting, and others with compatibility for folding during storage and lastly others with braid tires for stability.
Wondering where to get them? Do not worry anymore, they can be found in most online and on site bike stores where you can get them at affordable costs!
