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Dalbeattie Mountain Bike Trails
Avg 4.18
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Number of Reviews (13)

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  • Information:
  • Type: MTB Base
  • Grades: Green,Blue,Red,Black
  • Facilities: Car Park,Toilets,Bike Wash
  • Distance(s): 11-20km, 21- 30km
  • Country: Scotland
  • County: Dumfries and Galloway
  • Website: Dalbeattie
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Description

The Dalbeattie mountain bike trails are in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland and are part of the 7stanes network. At Dalbeattie, there are three trails. A red with black sections a blue and green.

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In 2023 the Dalbeattie Community Initiative announced their Rocks and Wheels project will benefit the Levelling up fund by creating an outdoor activity centre with indoor bouldering, 60-bed hostel, outdoor pump track, training and community rooms, and outdoor civic space. Being at the entrance to Dalbeattie Town Wood will allow easy access to the 7stanes mountain bike trail.

 

Dalbeattie is infamous for its rock and granite slabs. It isn't famous for its height but it is more than testing to ride the stone.

 

Ironnhash Green Trail

  • 11.5km of predominately easy forest road riding with a little singletrack to give a taste to mountain biking.

Moyle Hill Blue Trail

  • 14km with more climbing. It steps it up a gear and gives a good introduction to the Dalbeattie rock.

Hardrock Red Trail (with Black sections)

  • 25km Rougher and rockier surface for technical riding. Over 65% singletrack. The granite is all-weather and of course, ensures the trail has endearing resilience to erosion. Holds well in the wet. Classic singletrack with gnarly short rock descents and numerous slabs to ride. Black sections are known throughout the MTB community as "The Slab" with its steep angle, the Terrible Twins" and the "Volunteer ridge"

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Luke Griffiths:
Avg 4.11
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Awesome

A long and tough red trail that gives a lot of reasons to smile. Exciting and tricky descent push parts of this red trail close to black grade and there are certainly some very uncompromising optional black features here that I tend to look on in awe however I have ridden a few of the smaller black features which are great for pushing your confidence levels. In places the trails can be eroded quite badly while normally this just adds to the thrill in places it means that the trail is substantially harder going than when compared to Glentress red for example. The blue route is great for a beginner but while the step up from blue to red at Dalbeattie is quite sharp when aged 15 or so, still at a relatively beginner stage I was already looking to try at least bits of the red finding the blue a bit uninspiring. I highly recommend the Red route and there is also plenty of accommodation available nearby.

What do you like?

Fantastic skills and taster loops with some big features Great lengthy trail packed with features

What could be improved?

Literally no onsite facilties

Would you recommend?

*Yes*

Date written:

29/05/2013 - over 12 years ago

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