Fran, reading back over the comments it all looks very negative, but I'm sure that you will enjoy it although the weather looks poor for the weekend. As someone said don't overstretch yourself, you can always get off and push, but leave the hully gully for the summer as it's quite narrow and there's not enough room to get off the track.
Gisburn Forest
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
if any of you from further afield fancy spending some time in the Gisburn forest area... my sister has a lovely pair of holiday cottages in the wilds of Lancashire... shameless plug: www.yorkshire-dales-holiday.co.uk (it's actually in Lancashire, despite the URL). 
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
oh iam scared now! knowing my luck, I will fall off. I want to mountain bike, but dont want to do all that mental jumps and stuff they do, I dont mind going over some slight bumps and hilly ups and downs but nothing crazy...worried now
Francesca, you need to remember that MTB is for fun, not to go and do stuff that's too scary too soon! Be absolutely certain that there is no shame in walking a piece of trail that you consider too sketchy. Go and enjoy the blue, and if there's a skills park go and play at some little drops or berms or whatever.
Alun fell off some wet northshore, and there ain't none on the blue run.
Give it 'til the spring/ summer getting your fitness and smiles up on the blues, then go and push your boundaries on easy reds like Llandegla and Sherwood Pines, and a red/blue mix at Dalby or wherever. Build up to it and you'll love it. Push it too much and hurt yourself and you'll wish you hadn't bothered. Take it your pace, not anyone else's.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Can I recommend you a slim but worthwhile volume written by gurls. Very fast, very expert gurls. It gave me back my bottle after I mislaid it and taught me stuff I didn't know I didn't know.
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Francesca
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- Preston,Lancashire, and the Moon
cheers Alun
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Francesca
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- Preston,Lancashire, and the Moon
cheers Cubist - I will take your advice thankyou
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Francesca
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- Preston,Lancashire, and the Moon
Can I recommend you a slim but worthwhile volume written by gurls. Very fast, very expert gurls. It gave me back my bottle after I mislaid it and taught me stuff I didn't know I didn't know.
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cheers Greg
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Francesca
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- Preston,Lancashire, and the Moon
thanks Greg - just ordered it from Amazon - looking forward to a good read and picking up some useful tips - cheers
Fran, You might be interested in this event, Gisburn Forest without the technical bits. It's organised by the Rossendale and Pendle MRT so you'll be in safe hands. http://www.rpmrt.org.uk/event-registration/
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Francesca
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- Preston,Lancashire, and the Moon
ah cheers for that Alun, appreciate that !