Isle of man overnight trip

[voodoo_simon]

Thinking of doing an overnight trip on the isle in July. Apart from hosting the TT, I know nothing of the Isle, so can anyone give me any pointers?

Was thinking of taking the fat bike due to the long beaches and have a wildcamp but that's as far as I've got. The ferry is £40 return and will roughly give me 24 hours there

[Zippy]

Sounds like a plan. What more could you possibly want to know!

Oh, well maybe bring a map

[composite]

I have been over a couple of times now and there is plenty of good riding and loads of trails. I have a mate who lives there though so he was "guiding".

I can try to dig out a few gpx's of routes we rode if you are interested?

There were so many trails going off in all directions but they aren't always marked very obviously. A coloured dot painted on a tree was often all that marked the trail head. My mate did say though that there has been some work done of late, to try to link up a lot of the small trails into a proper network with some more signage but I'm not sure how much has been done.

Here's a video of one of our trips that shows the sort of riding.
https://vimeo.com/62724865

I should have been going across for the Manx100 at the end of July but I suspect my knee problem has put pay to that.

[Matt]

I know it's road, but cycling the TT course is fun.

(...and surprisingly hilly)

[Charliecres]

Watch out for the venomous badgers. Or was it wallabies? One or the other. Either way, be careful.

Stoats, that was it. And cannibals.

[Wotsits]

It's the cats with no tails that freek me out!

[voodoo_simon]

Cheers for the help everyone, if you have time composite, the gpx files would be nice to scan through (bikefreaks at hot mail dot com).

I did think of looking at the TT course, could try getting my knee down on some of the corners

[composite]

You got mail.

[voodoo_simon]

Cheers Neil, got the email, so will have a look