North Devon

[BigdummySteve]

My little trip to Devon is in danger, the plan was to drop daughter off in westward Ho! Then have four days to myself riding the brounton150 course.
My wife had now decided it might be a great opportunity to spend a few days at our place there. Being that said place is 5 miles away from any type of civilianisation I can't see me disappearing for the duration.

I've ridden around the porlock and a little around brounton, any good pointers for the best riding in the area. My gut feeling is the route from minehead through to the valley of the rocks might be best for a shorter overnighter but I'd welcome any pointers for the best riding and bivvy stops.

[ianfitz]

I'm no expert on the area, having ridden there once on this years B150. But I can tell you that my favourite bit of riding on the whole thing was the trail down through the woods on the second trip to porlock.

As for bivy spots, there is many. I was looking at lots of them very enviously while, erm, enjoying the headwind and heavy rain overnight.

[BigdummySteve]

I'm no expert on the area, having ridden there once on this years B150. But I can tell you that my favourite bit of riding on the whole thing was the trail down through the woods on the second trip to porlock.

As for bivy spots, there is many. I was looking at lots of them very enviously while, erm, enjoying the headwind and heavy rain overnight.

I think I've ridden that, was one part called ' granny's ride' ?

[lune ranger]

I can highly recommend the trails east of Dunkery Beacon above Minehead and out into the Quantocks.
Some lovely little wooded valleys and rolling ridge lines. Plenty of places to tuck in to bivi overnight as well.
Did an overnighter up that way in the spring and had a fantastic time.

[ctznsmith]

There are a couple of routes on bikepacking.com which might be of use.