Reviews for Dalby Forest Mountain Bike Trail Centre

Summary:
It is a good place to learn some freeride skills, but not the best bike park.

Review:
I'm no freerider, just maybe a hardcore XC rider. For sure you can learn some jump skills here on the tabletop jumps and maybe other riding skills on the big berms and Northshore. It is better that the Pace Bike Park is here, than not.

However, having also ridden at the Glentress Freeride park, this Bike park is very sadly lacking in some areas. One big issue is with the Northshore skinnies area. The whole thing is virtually unrideable for most of the year, due to the heavy tree cover, UK climate and untreated boards. For most of the year, it's like riding on ice. It's difficult enough to perfect your balance, without having your bike suddenly slip from under you. Reading other posts here, if this is down to the Forestry Commision, then they are making a grave judgement of error and spoiling peoples fun. I don't see their logic in ruling that the northshore should not be made all weather.

Summary:
bonza fun,plenty long enough to tire most folk out.

Review:
The downhill single tracks are great. The thought put in to the layout maximises the fun and gets the uphill slog out of the way quickly.
For a newbie rider like me it is easy to experience fast descents and scare yourself plenty.
It is well marked with lots of "escape" trails for when your knackered/scared .
Highlights "Vera Lynns". Big berms were you will be travelling too fast!!!!!!!
& the fast dark wooded run in to the finish of the red trail to the visitor center.
Low points. not fit enough yet !!!

Summary:
A grand day out

Review:
The new route is fantastic, it's got a bit of everything and flows luvly....... With a few more little testing technical features put in here and there it would be a 10 on it's own merit. I think if you had the strength to do the red, black and finish with a play in the bike pack, you would score the whole experience a 10, but I haven't done that yet.

Summary:
Superb Fun

Review:
With awesome flowing single track, suprisingly long down-hill sections and very quick sections, this track has been recently improved and now has a number of massive bombholes as well as huge berms, rock gardens, short north-shore and drops along the way. It's awesome to do with friends, but being such a long trail decent fitness is needed.

The track is dry and dusty in the summer, with blazing rocky tracks, and full of gloopy mud in the winter (so fit your mud tyres) which makes it a really diverse terrain to ride on.

After a run you are left wanting more, so Dixon's Hollow (charge jump park) or the black run are available. But be warned - don't do the black if you're low on energy.

It's mint. An awesome day to be had on the Dalby red run.

Summary:
Solid

Review:
This is incredibly technical, steep and scary. Ih has lightning fast downhill sections with sharp berms, huge obstacles and many drops (often up to 5/6 feet, completely out of the blue, eg. winding down a rocky hill and there's a big tree laid across the path. Blind, on the other side is a large drop.).

Not for the faint of heart.

This is the most exciting and challenging track i've ever done and the downhills are simply incredible. There's also some mint northshore along the track, which can be jumped if done at speed.

I'd definitely recommend it, but it is for good riders only (who are physically fit too)!