the Bangor Trail in mayo

Mickeroo · 01-02-2009 10:29pm #1

Anyone one here biked the whole thing?? noticed plenty of other tyre tracks along the way. Me and a friend did(well, attempted :P) the letterkeen(sp?) loop yesterday,anticlockwise,so you return along the bangor trail, it was quite rocky so kind of technical but a lot of fun,i was just wondering if the trail stayed like this all the way or does it just turn to bog?

NeilMcEoigheann · 02-02-2009 12:06am

in an OTish reply the boards.ie guys should attempt to ride the entire wicklow way its only 132km easy and you get a mountain 100k which counts double

Mickeroo · 02-02-2009 12:52am

NeilMcEoigheann wrote: »

in an OTish reply the boards.ie guys should attempt to ride the entire wicklow way its only 132km easy and you get a mountain 100k which counts double

eh?

Trojan · 02-02-2009 1:08am

I'll get my dad to write up a reply, cycled some of it recently & some responsibility for its development as walk.

Mickeroo · 02-02-2009 1:42pm

Trojan wrote: »

I'll get my dad to write up a reply, cycled some of it recently & some responsibility for its development as walk.

Cool,that would be great,much appreciated

I found a description here: http://peterjordan.castlebar.ie/mountainbike.html
but its kind of outdated and i think theres been work done on it since.

Trojan · 05-02-2009 4:12pm

Notes from my dad.

I would not recommend anybody to cycle this as they will need at least two days to complete the journey, quite a bit of that trying to carry the bike and pack etc. The tracks that you saw were possibly motocross bikes, those types have gone down the trail in the past with some difficulties I believe.

However I do recommend the Western way from Ballycastle to Bellacorick, this is mostly on forest roads some quite rough, and a wonderful section on boards[*note: wooden boards, not boards.ie], you really need wide tyres so that your wheel doesn’t slip between the boards in some wide places. ~18.25 miles I did this in company with another mountain biker we really enjoyed the remoteness. Highest point was 862 feet

HTH

Mickeroo · 05-02-2009 7:24pm

Trojan wrote: »

Notes from my dad.

HTH

thanks a bunch, sounds great

Connacht · 05-03-2009 4:24pm

Mickeroo,
Yeah, definitely do not attempt the Bangor Trail by bike - impossible. Even in summer. Vast tracts of it are pure bog with nothing solid underfoot and you'll only end up carrying the bike.

Trojan · 05-03-2009 4:29pm

But the Western Way is good!

sam79 · 09-10-2009 8:09pm

Can you ride a motocross bike on any part of this trail?? or where is there a place to go in Mayo

the Bangor Trail in mayo

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