I may be moving to the bradenton/tampa area in april. Trying to find out if the are any riders on here from that area? Is there a decent street/urban scene there? thanks adam
Florida riding scene?
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check out freeridesouth.com it seems to me that a lot of the pictures there are from florida including a buck of Wade Simmons and Dangerous Dan riding for what i think was a bike magazine photo shoot on Florida
Passing through Fla i went to that site and found it and the people very helpful.
The miami scene is surprisingly very good for xc,freeride and DJ.
Anyway, go to fatiretraveler.com and locate trail in your area in Florida as a good starting point.
The miami scene is surprisingly very good for xc,freeride and DJ.
Anyway, go to fatiretraveler.com and locate trail in your area in Florida as a good starting point.
thanks guys
you can also look at ridgeriders.net. club based out of lakeland florida awesome trailriding/dj and northshore stuff, as well as alot of urban going on. Lakeland is about 40 min from tampa, If you come down to the tampa area, drop me a PM and I'll show you around.
Is there anything close to Orlando worthwhile?
I will be there next Saturday for a few days,
so I can bring my trail bike if needed.
I will be there next Saturday for a few days,
so I can bring my trail bike if needed.
Yeah, there is a great place like 30minutes from Orlando. My grandmother lives around in there area. I've been there once. The place is called Santos. There is some crazy **** there like a 25ft huck into a huge rock pit. Check it out on freeridesouth.com Its closer to Ocala than anything else.
ClubMud is South Florida (Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Boca) www.clubmud.combiggins said:
In South Florida we have 4 Parks
North Miami Beach - Oleta, 12 Miles of rooty twisty and fun single track. Make sure to check out Area 51, Gilligan's Island and Volunteer/Goldstick trails
Opa Locka - Amelia - ~ 5.5 miles of kinda flat, but fun trail, there are some basic wooden stunts, nothing too scary.
Sunrise/Ft Lauderdale - Markham Park - This is the most technically demanding 7 miles of single track around
(also the trail I am very involved in building and maintaining, so I maybe biased)Deerfield Beach - Quiet Waters Park - 5 miles of fun begginer to intermediate single track, with a few well placed stunts along the trail. There are also 2 Jump areas. the "IA" 3, 3-4' tables that are a blast, then the "AA" which has a number of (6 I think) MUCH larger jumps that are doubles, step-ups, hips and gaps.
For Tampa there is
www.SwampClub.org - There are a number of great trails in the Tampa area. Alafia being my favorite. (most technical and diverse)
about 1/2 way between Tampa and Orlando is Lakeland, which has the TOE and CarterRoad. The TOE is on private land and is for members only. However they are very friendly and will usually offer to show you around so long as you sign up and offer up a small donation. The TOE has a very technical fun XC trail, along with "JumpLand" and "StuntLand"
Check out www.RidgeRiders.net
About an hour North of Orlando is the Ocala area that has 2 great trail systems.
1) Razorback Mountain Bike Park is an AWSOME flowy technical 10 mile trail. It is only open on the weekends and there is a fee. Check out
www.GoneRiding.com and look for the link to Razorback MTB Park
2) Santos - Is a state recreation site and has probably 60 miles of trails. The majority of the length is just flowy relatively flat single track. However there are no less then 2 sets of really technical "Red" trails that surround 2 old mining pits. There are a number of large drops and technical riding.
Check out www.OMBA.org for trail maps and what not.
If you want to check out pictures I recommend you go to www.FreeRideSouth.com on their picture gallery just search for pictures using the names I gave you above. You will mainly just get "FreeRiding" type pictures. The other sites have pictures of the trails.
enter rob. dude do you even know what you are talking about?Mtb_Rob_FL said:ClubMud is South Florida (Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Boca) www.clubmud.com
In South Florida we have 4 Parks
North Miami Beach - Oleta, 12 Miles of rooty twisty and fun single track. Make sure to check out Area 51, Gilligan's Island and Volunteer/Goldstick trails
Opa Locka - Amelia - ~ 5.5 miles of kinda flat, but fun trail, there are some basic wooden stunts, nothing too scary.
Sunrise/Ft Lauderdale - Markham Park - This is the most technically demanding 7 miles of single track around
Deerfield Beach - Quiet Waters Park - 5 miles of fun begginer to intermediate single track, with a few well placed stunts along the trail. There are also 2 Jump areas. the "IA" 3, 3-4' tables that are a blast, then the "AA" which has a number of (6 I think) MUCH larger jumps that are doubles, step-ups, hips and gaps.
For Tampa there is
www.SwampClub.org - There are a number of great trails in the Tampa area. Alafia being my favorite. (most technical and diverse)
about 1/2 way between Tampa and Orlando is Lakeland, which has the TOE and CarterRoad. The TOE is on private land and is for members only. However they are very friendly and will usually offer to show you around so long as you sign up and offer up a small donation. The TOE has a very technical fun XC trail, along with "JumpLand" and "StuntLand"
Check out www.RidgeRiders.net
About an hour North of Orlando is the Ocala area that has 2 great trail systems.
1) Razorback Mountain Bike Park is an AWSOME flowy technical 10 mile trail. It is only open on the weekends and there is a fee. Check out
www.GoneRiding.com and look for the link to Razorback MTB Park
2) Santos - Is a state recreation site and has probably 60 miles of trails. The majority of the length is just flowy relatively flat single track. However there are no less then 2 sets of really technical "Red" trails that surround 2 old mining pits. There are a number of large drops and technical riding.
Check out www.OMBA.org for trail maps and what not.
If you want to check out pictures I recommend you go to www.FreeRideSouth.com on their picture gallery just search for pictures using the names I gave you above. You will mainly just get "FreeRiding" type pictures. The other sites have pictures of the trails.
I might know a thing or 2 :eviltongubiggins said:
:eviltonguRob pretty muched summed up the riding in central and south Florida (there are some trails up in the panhandle and in Jacksonville, but I don't know much about them). From Bradenton, Alafia will probably be your closest good place to ride with the TOE and Carter Road being an additional 20 or so minutes away. Santos and Razorback are pretty much a straight shot up I75 and are maybe an 1.5 hours away, but worth the trip.
Jeremy - there is nothing much worth riding in the local Orlando area besides the Van's skatepark on Tuesday and Thursday nights, however depending on where you are in Orlando either the Lakeland area trails (TOE, Carter, Alafia) or the Ocala area trails (Santos, Razorback) will be within a reasonable drive. I live in Orlando, so if you are looking for someone to show you around, shoot me a message.
Jeremy - there is nothing much worth riding in the local Orlando area besides the Van's skatepark on Tuesday and Thursday nights, however depending on where you are in Orlando either the Lakeland area trails (TOE, Carter, Alafia) or the Ocala area trails (Santos, Razorback) will be within a reasonable drive. I live in Orlando, so if you are looking for someone to show you around, shoot me a message.
jeremy - the TOE is no joke! i'd dare to say that it rivals hick park. i was scared on most of the stuff back in '02 when i still lived there in orlando....now it's completely insane! it's almost like a sandy and flat whistler 
heck, even dangerous dan himself has hit it
diff rider on the teeter tower
and don't forget about jumpland! (bohica schooling me)
heck, even dangerous dan himself has hit it
diff rider on the teeter tower
and don't forget about jumpland! (bohica schooling me)