Reviews for Hamsterley Forest Mountain Bike Trails

Summary:
Worth a visit

Review:
Worth a visit if you are in the area but not worth driving past Dalby for. 22km of mainly Forrest tracks. The single track is at a premium but really good when you come across it. The transition section is a great down hill part full of berms, and drop offs. The climbs are tough. I did it on a wet day so everything seems harder, I would say that the climbs are harder than Dalby due to the uneven surface and degree of incline. I will be back on a dryer day to sample it again. Please get better (any) signage for the loop as I could not find it easily. Hamsto trail blazers keep up the good work.

Summary:
Love it!

Review:
These are my local trails and im there a lot. They are good trails with constant work happening to them. The red route is my favourite as it has the biggest distance but the blue and black trails are both good as well. The red has some cheeky climbs as well as some good technical singletrack downhill. The singletrack is well kept and loads of fun and easy for the average rider and more experienced riders. The black route is shorter and has a very cheeky rough climb but there is also some good technical singletrack downhill. I know a section has just been revamped which was good fun. The skills loop is good to have blast around for a warm up as it is near the visitor centre and has lots of feature that have chicken runs as well. The normal XC routes and the skills loop are free unless you drove so you have to pay for parking, but the 4x and DH you have to pay for. I have only rode the 4x which was a lot of fun. i rode it every day for a week straight just trying to get faster. I havent rode the DH trails yet but I know they are constantly getting maintained and improved. Definitely worth going to hamsterly though...

Summary:
Red route isn't interesting for the first part

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Went today and was disappointed at how boring the first part of the section was. I though there was never going to be any down phill single track. But after an hour of riding they finally turned up. Apart from the beginning its definatley worth a ride. Black route is much better in my opinion

Summary:
Worthy trial on a budget

Review:
This trail is a mix of old single track, some new sections and forest road.
The new display board in the main car park shows the current route.
Volunteer time and club money has largely gone into building red route trails, but I believe there is still fun and challenges to be had on the old black route (I’d agree with other reviewers that it is easy for black grading).
Trail is at its best in the dry with adequate single tracks and more if riders are prepared to look beyond the forest commission marked trial; the 2 main climbs are up forest roads, but the rest of the route can be ridden mostly avoiding roads. The highlights are the downhill from the 4X course to the tarmac road, up the road and left down the newly signposted ‘Special K’ single track to the car park.
Hopefully time and money can be found to improve other sections this year, in the mean time enjoy if for what it is.

Summary:
Nice uphill course

Review:
Very disappointed. As mentioned before I can cope with long uphill sections if there's a trade off of good downhill runs. First 20 mins uphill very little down, uphill again with a horrendously boggy,rooty flat section. A short downhill run nothing special. Uphill again for an age past the start of the downhill run and the injustice of watching people having fun!!! A good man made area section 13 then a few boggy downhill sections back to the visitors centre. Just don't waste your time or energy I'd rather of parked at the top of section 13 and rode round it for an hour. Yes natural but just boring,dull I'd rather ride round my local woods for natural fun testing riding