Reviews for Dalby Forest Mountain Bike Trail Centre

Summary:
Stick to the Red

Review:
The black is ok, but far too technical for my liking. It just doesn't flow well like the red route does. Too many climbs for un-fit people like me.

If you like it rocky, rooty and technical then this is for you. If you like fast flowing with jumps and optional technical sections then stick to the red.

The black route is also way short.

Summary:
Great, well-thought-out single-track

Review:
This just flows.

The snake sections in the last quarter of the red loop are by far the best bits. Pleanty of ups as well as downs though!

IMHO this is much better than the black route offering (plus much of the black runs parrallel to the red so you have the option of heading on and off it).

Summary:
great fun

Review:
this is an amazing track ride it load great fun to ride with a good mix of track with some fun downhills.

Summary:
Good but could be better

Review:
Dalby Forest. Twenty three miles of red grade trail. It should be brilliant. Truth is its good but not brilliant. Don’t get me wrong there is some very nice singletrack here and some good descents but nothing that is knock your socks off, leave you gasping, brilliant.
To put my cards on the table my idea of a perfect descent is pretty much ‘Spooky Wood’ at Glentress. A fast flowing descent you can blast down with the ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ playing as a personal accompaniment in your head. At Dalby the descents tend toward technical and where there are berms they are too tight to go into at full speed which means the approach and the berms themselves are rutted by previous riders braking to shed speed. Worst of all the flow of the whole trail is broken by firetrack roads and there are lots of them. The numbered waypoints tend to occur where you cross the fireroads and there are 38 of them. Given the total distance of the trail is 34 kilometres you get an idea of how many times you hit a fireroad stopper and far to often it is just when you are getting into the groove of a descent .

There is some good stuff here and I suppose you tend to be most critical when something is good but not as good as you think it can be. The descent that ends with the small wooden bridge and the final descent back into Dalby trail centre spring to mind as little gems. At the end of the day though the descents feel shorter than they should be to justify the ups and those bloody fireroads continually stop the flow.

Summary:
perfect place for novices and kids

Review:
while all the jumps and everything are far to easy for good riders it does make a very good family day out theres enough for the kids to do my 7 yr old loves the big roll in and over the first table, its just a shame the rest of the 4x section is so flat.