Cycling around the Scottish Borders
Cycling
Biking at Billerwell - in Scotland's Biking Heaven!
Sample some wonderful cycle routes passing almost by our door - The Southern Borders Loop - a choice of 50 mile circuit or 75 mile loop on virtually traffic free roads through some of the wildest countryside to Newcastleton and Hawick; The Abbey Cyccle Route - 55 miles passing through 4 historic towns with wonderful Abbeys or local cycling trails around Hawick and Jedburgh
But also............
Mountain Biking
Explore the 7stanes - from the comfort of Billerwell! Mountain biking has something for everyone - from easy woodland rides to the exhilaration of a downhill trail. If you're new to the sport, we've provided some information below to help you get started.
North Shore - Is an orange-graded bike park providing a challenge for experienced riders.
2. Glentress & Innerleithen - 45 minutes by car. Probably the best biking centre in Britain. Everything from beginners' trails to extreme downhill. Café, bike shop & hire at Glentress.
3. Ae - 1 hour’s drive. A fine blend of family trails and rough & tough for for the more experienced rider. Includes a competition downhill course, featuring the infamous "Coffin Jump"! Café, bike shop & hire.
You can start the trail at either Newcastelton or Keilder using forest road or via singletrack sections on Lonesome Pine, Bloody Bush and 7stanes Newcastleton. A cracking day’s ride – not for the faint hearted – but what an experience!
This rugged wilderness is MTB heaven. Experience some of the best singletrack trails in the UK with breathtaking views. You can also try the Castlewood Training Loop at Kielder Castle. It is packed full of short trail sections that will give you a taste of what the different grades of trails are like to ride out there in the wider Kielder Water Forest Park.
Local cycling from Billerwell includes trails around Jedburgh (3 miles)and in Swinnie wood (less accesible direct from the farm). The 7stanes site at Newcastleton with fantastic range of Blue and Green trails is half an hour away and for the really serious biker Glentress & Innerleithen in the Tweed Valley Forest Park are only 1 hour away.
Bikes delivered to your door! In conjunction with locallly based 'Bike & Tandem Hire' we can arrange for bikes or tandems to be deliverd to Billerwell to meet your own requirements. Mountain bikes, road bikes or have fun on a tandem! contact Christopher Rainbow on 07799 525 123 or
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