Glentress

Just been round the black graded V trail at Glentress - excellent ride, beautiful spring day. Took about 2:30hr, although we missed the very last descent coz we were pushed for time. Loads of interesting and exciting single track, and some pretty technical stuff at the end - something called Black Dog. Missed out the 'north shore' wooden stuff too - that's for another day. Here is the map. There is a description of the route on the Cycling Scotland website. This site also has lots of trails descriptions all over Scotland.
Here is also a link to the Hub inthe Forest - the bike centre at Glentress. They have a forum discussing how long it takes to get round the V trail

Bike Gear

Very useful set of articles about bike gear by Sheldon Brown

Galicia

Routes in Galicia - actually not many where I go on holiday in Sanxenxo - but there are lots of nice trails in the woods there. Really a place to go sailing, but then I would need a boat. They do have cats for hire, which is fun, but not like having a boat to use any time.

More Bike routes near Madrid

Some more Spainish bike route links. amigosdelciclismo is a magazine with some routes, and links, although most don;t work. They havea list of rides along the historic cattle paths and romans roads.
Here are some routes and dates by the cycling club LUIS VALTUEÑA, again in the Sierra de Madrid and Guadarrama.
Marco's page, Trialeras de Madrid has a excellent set of ride maps and reports.

Edinburgh Bike Co-op - my local bike shop that takes most of my money.
Also Bicycleworks on Argyle Place for repairs and bits and pieces.
Spokes, the local bike lobby organisation.

Bike Skills courses

A company running courses in bike skills in Glentress - Macadeventure . Edinburgh Bike club is doing a 4 saturday course, btu could not do it.

Visit Scotland have a list of bike routes, and lots of links for MB in Scotland, seeing as it is a growth tourist business these days.

Videos of 7 Stanes

Set of videos taken at some of the 7 Stanes bike trails, to get a idea of what is in store before visiting.

Carron Valley

New set of mountain bike trails opened in Carron Valley - a forest next to one of the large reservoirs between Stirling and Glasgow.

Freeride Edinburgh

Videos and photos in an undergrad project at Edinburgh University about where kids can do freeriding in Edinburgh edinburghbiking. Makes th case that there are no facilities for this fast growing sport in the city - fine if you have a car to drive to Glentress or Interlithen, but for teenagers wanting to play near their homes not much. Many of the edinburgh hills are covered with golf courses which are very little used - not too much to ask for some space for mountain bikers.
We have been looking around Edinburgh for clandestine bike parks - there are a few!

Good set of Mountain bike routes around the Madrid and the Sierra de Guadarrama in Mountainbike y Mas.

Great videos of bikes on google video.
Neil spotted this one the hook up. These people also publish some videos to download to buy.
Another mad video is from the 2003 Red Bull.