Lee Quarry MTB Trails - Relevant or Relic?

Lee and Cragg Quarry MTB trails were developed a the very peak of England’s investment in Mountain biking as a sport.

Possibly the last significant new trail development in England and part of an exciting and ambitious plan to create trail centre style marked routes through no less than 4 disused industrial era landscapes all linked together to create an epic 40km XC route.
Finished in 2008 in the run up to the credit crisis and subsequent austerity measures, the link between Lee and Cragg Quarry was completed but the never quite reached its lofty vision of 4 way marked linked and individually rideable quarry trails. It also fell foul to the same apathy gripping many of Englands trail centres, with ZERO further development or even basic maintenance meaning these once awesome riding destinations (Grizedale forests North Face trail comes very much to mind here) have been left to ruin.

So today we rode some (not all) of Lee Quarry swell as a full loop of Crag Quarry and back to see if it still has some appeal tp the modern mountain biker.

Its worth saying that modern geometry bikes, dropper posts, tubeless chunky tyres and 1 x gears make the undulating and rocky nature of this trail much more pleasant than back oil the day when I would have originally rode this trail.

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